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INFRA · APIS
Velocity5.0

Timely is rebuilding time-tracking around automatic capture of AI-tool work

time-trackingai-attributionautosheetmemory-appintegrationsadmin-controls
◆Current state
Timely is an automatic time-tracking tool whose Memory app passively captures desktop activity and whose AutoSheet feature turns that capture into draft timesheets. The recent arc centers on attributing AI-tool work — reading real window titles and URLs from Claude Desktop, Codex, and Cursor so AI sessions land on the right project instead of a generic blob. Around that core it is hardening project-logging controls (membership prompts, audit logs, templates) and integration reliability.
◆Where it's heading
The product is betting that as knowledge work shifts into AI assistants, the hard problem becomes attributing that work to projects automatically — and it is investing release after release in capturing AI-tool activity with conversation-level granularity. In parallel it is loosening project-membership friction (log to any project, join-on-log) and adding admin governance like audit logs, project templates, and permission tiers. Cadence is steady and incremental, with AI attribution as the consistent throughline.
◆Prediction
Expect continued expansion of AI-tool coverage in Memory.app alongside tighter AutoSheet automation — likely more assistants tracked and smarter auto-project prediction off the captured AI context.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    More control over project logging, smarter linked work filters, and more reliable integrations

    Continues the project-logging-control thread: AutoSheet's linked-work picker now auto-narrows to the row's project with shared, persistent filter preferences, and logging to a non-member project prompts a join/log-once/cancel choice. User audit logs extend the admin-governance work seen in recent releases.

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  2. 12d ago

    Flexible project access, failed sync details, and richer Zoom titles

    Loosens project-membership friction further — admins can let users log time to any active workspace project, adding membership on first log — while AutoSheet-paused alerts and failed-sync detail address the reliability gaps that come with automatic capture. Pinned projects in the hour editor double from 10 to 20.

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  3. 26d ago

    Project templates, smarter AutoSheet emails, and even more control over Memory capturing

    Project templates auto-create projects with default settings as new clients are added, pushing Timely further toward zero-setup workspaces. Per-app idle-time exclusion and selectable empty Timeline intervals refine Memory's capture accuracy, consistent with the broader passive-tracking bet.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Memory app improvements, AutoSheet fixes, and Timesheets updates

    Sharpens Memory's AI-attribution accuracy by tracking Cursor Agents separately from the editor window, and adds a real privacy guard — credential scrubbing strips usernames, passwords, and tokens from captured URLs before storage. The remaining items are AutoSheet and incognito-detection fixes.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Track your AI work automatically, see your whole Team's hours, and stay informed in-app

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    The opening move of the AI-attribution arc: Memory now automatically captures work in AI tools like Claude Desktop and Codex Desktop as timeline entries with conversation-specific titles and URLs, feeding project prediction. Team-wide hour visibility and enhanced timesheet filters ship alongside.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Better Claude and Codex support in Memory.app

    The enabling groundwork for AI activity tracking: Memory.app starts reading the real window titles from Codex and Claude (Chat, Cowork, Code) and attaching URLs, replacing generic app-level entries with project-attributable context. Sets up the automatic AI-work capture announced days later.

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