Timely
Key Info:
Timely is a cloud time-tracking platform that uses a private activity timeline and automated suggestions to help people build accurate timesheets. It combines automatic capture with planned time, project budgets, approvals, team capacity and reporting for organisations that want less manual reconstruction of the working day.
Details
Automatic and manual capture
The Memory application records a private timeline of applications, documents, meetings and supported work activity, then suggests time entries. Users decide what becomes a shared timesheet record. Timers and manual entry remain available, and the product can connect calendar and work tools. Teams should verify precisely what is captured on each operating system and how private raw activity differs from submitted time.
Timesheets and review
Daily and weekly views help people organise suggested activity into projects and confirm their hours. Required detail, locked time and approval workflows support consistency before records move downstream. Automatic capture can reduce forgotten time, but it does not remove the need for a clear project structure or human review when two activities overlap.
Projects, planning and insight
Budgets, billable rates and planned time let managers compare intended capacity with recorded work. Dashboards and reports provide project, person and team views, and exported data can support billing or operational analysis. Integrations add contextual activity from tools such as calendars and project systems, while APIs support controlled connections.
Who should evaluate it
Timely is relevant to consultancies, agencies, software and other knowledge-work teams where people switch frequently between meetings, documents and applications. It may be less suitable where work happens mainly away from supported devices or where a field clock, geofence or payroll engine is the primary requirement.
Evaluation notes
Pilot on the actual operating systems and applications used by a representative team. Compare suggested activity with a manually reconstructed day and record false matches, gaps and privacy expectations. Test planned versus actual time, an approval, a locked period and a project nearing budget. Confirm admin visibility, deletion, retention, mobile behaviour, integrations, API, report definitions, SSO and what happens when the capture application is offline.
Decision evidence
Record the tested workflows, measured data gaps, plan-specific dependencies, policy decisions and named operational owner in the selection file. This turns a short demonstration into evidence that can be revisited during implementation and renewal.