Productivity Drawer

The Productivity Drawer is a panel that extends out from the right side of the screen. The drawer gives you quick access to category-specific timers, Project Manager tasks, draft review, statistics, and notifications without leaving your current page.

Opening and Closing the Drawer

A narrow icon rail on the right edge of the screen has an icon for each panel described below. The bell, for Notifications, shows a badge with your unread count and appears only when your plan includes email notifications.

Click any icon to open the drawer, which slides out to the left. Click the icon of the open panel again, or the X at the top of the rail, to close it. The drawer stays open as you move between pages in AbleTime.

Timer Panel

The Timer panel opens from the stopwatch . It contains four sections from top to bottom.

Time Entry Statistics

A summary of your time tracking for the current month. The widget shows a donut chart in the center with your total hours and a breakdown by category (each slice colored to match the category). Hover over a slice to see the category, its time, and its share of the total.

Around the chart are your entry count for the month, how your hours compare with last month, and your average hours per day and hours today. When Project Manager is on, those last two become Overhead, the share of this month's time not linked to a Project Manager task, and Momentum, the share logged against Project Manager tasks.

Click the eye to show or hide the statistics. Click the refresh to update the data.

Active Timer

When a timer is running, this section shows what it is timing, the project and the elapsed time, with a Stop Timer button to end it.

Recent Tasks

A collapsible section listing your recently used project and category combinations. Each row shows a color dot matching the category and the category and project name.

Click any row to open a new time entry form pre-filled with that project and category. If timers are enabled (see Time Entry Preferences), a stopwatch appears on each row — click it to start a timer for that combination. If a different timer is already running, a Switch Timer? dialog asks you to confirm. Clicking the stopwatch on the row whose timer is already running opens a Stop Timer? dialog instead.

Click the refresh in the section header to reload the list.

Project Manager Items

A collapsible section listing your Project Manager tasks, grouped under their project name. To learn about Project Manager tasks, see Getting Started with Project Manager.

Tabs switch between tasks assigned to you, Available tasks (unassigned ones you can pick up) and the Backlog. When any of your assigned tasks are past their end date, an Overdue tab with the count comes first and lists them earliest first.

Each task row shows a color dot, the epic reference when the task belongs to an epic, the task reference and title, a priority icon, and a status icon. Blocked tasks display a block icon in red. The info button opens the Task Panel.

Click a task row to open a new time entry form linked to that task. If timers are enabled, a stopwatch lets you start a timer for the task.

Project Manager Panel

The Project Manager panel opens when you click the timeline clock icon. It has four sections.

Project Manager Statistics

A summary of your Project Manager workload. Around a central Pressure gauge are your estimated load in hours, your velocity in hours per day, and how many tasks are assigned to you and overdue.

The gauge shows your Pressure as a multiplier (for example, 1.2x) with a status label: ON TRACK, BEHIND, AT RISK, or OVERLOADED.

Click the eye icon to show or hide the statistics. Click the refresh icon to update.

Active Timer

Same as the Timer panel — shows the running timer if one is active.

Task Search

A collapsible section for finding a task by what is written in it. Type a word or phrase in the Search descriptions field and press Enter or click the magnifier. Tick Include comments to search task comments as well.

Each result shows the task with your words highlighted in an excerpt; Comment marks a match found in a comment. Click a result to open the task.

Project Manager Items

Same as the Timer panel, with Overdue (only when you have overdue tasks), Assigned, and Available sub-tabs.

Review Drafts Panel

The Review Drafts panel opens when you click the clipboard check . Here you review draft time entries, such as the ones your AI agent records, and accept or dismiss them in bulk. It has three sections from top to bottom.

Draft Statistics

Three tiles count the drafts loaded, the drafts selected, and the drafts that Need task/category before they can be accepted, each with its total time.

Actions

Below the statistics, a bar shows how many drafts are selected. Accept turns every selected draft into a recorded time entry. Drafts with no task or category stay in the list unless you give them one in the confirmation: click Select a task or category, pick one, check the drafts it covers and click Confirm, repeating for each group, then click Accept. Dismiss permanently removes the selected drafts; it cannot be undone.

When Project Manager is on and the selection includes drafts linked to tasks, the Accept entries dialog also lists Tasks in this selection, each with its reference, title and state. Turn on Close all Tasks to close every listed task as its drafts are accepted. A task that still has a later draft outside the selection is marked with an asterisk and stays open.

The select all | none links select or clear the whole list, and ← show time entries opens the calendar. Type in the Filter drafts field to narrow the list.

The Draft List

Drafts are listed oldest first. Each row shows the draft's title, a short excerpt of its description, the start and end times with the duration, and the date. Drafts linked to a Project Manager task also show the task reference and title — click the reference to open the task's details — and a Backlog chip when the task is still in the backlog.

Click a row to select or deselect it; selected rows are marked with a colored left border. The checkbox beside a task reference selects every draft belonging to that task at once. A warning means the draft needs a task or category before it can be accepted.

Click the magnifier on a row to open the draft in the time entry form, where you can correct it and accept or dismiss it on its own.

Notifications Panel

The Notifications panel opens when you click the bell icon.

Inbox and Archived Tabs

Two tabs split the list: Inbox, with your unread count beside it, and Archived.

Notification Items

Each notification shows the sender's avatar, a timestamp (for example, "5 minutes ago"), and a description of the action (for example, "You have been assigned to" or "You were mentioned in a comment on" followed by the task name and who did it). Some notifications show extra detail beneath the description. Hover over the timestamp to see the full date and time.

Unread notifications have a colored left border. Click a notification to mark it as read. A notification about a task or an epic has a Task or Epic link on its top line that opens that page.

In the Inbox, each notification has an archive beside its time to move it to the Archived tab. When read notifications are present, an Archive read button appears to archive all read items at once. In the Archived tab, a Delete all button removes all archived notifications. Both ask you to confirm first.

Messages

Your AI agent can send you notifications. If Email notifications is on in Privacy & Notifications it reaches you by email too. Click it to open a Message panel beside the drawer. A task reference in the text, such as #AAP-27, is a link to that task. Close the panel with Close, press Escape, or click anywhere outside it.

Keyboard Shortcuts

When the Timer panel is open, no dialog is active, and you are not typing in a text field, you can pick rows from the keyboard. Press R to number the first nine rows of Recent Tasks, or T to number the first nine rows of Project Manager Items, then press 1–9 to pick a row: in Recent Tasks this starts a timer for that row, and in Project Manager Items it opens a new time entry form for that task. Press the same letter again, or Escape, to cancel.