Working with the Productivity Drawer

The Productivity Drawer is a panel on the right edge of the screen that puts timer controls, recent work, Project Manager tasks, notifications, and stats in one place. Instead of switching to Project Manager to find a task and going back to the tracker to log it, you click the task in the drawer and the entry form opens with it linked.

Opening the Drawer

A narrow icon rail on the right edge of the screen opens each tab: the stopwatch for Timer, the timeline clock for Project Manager, the clipboard for Review Drafts, and the bell for Notifications, which appears only when your plan includes email notifications. In Review Drafts you accept or dismiss drafts from your agent or calendar in bulk; when the drafts are linked to tasks, the Accept entries dialog offers Close all Tasks to close those tasks at the same time. Productivity Drawer describes each icon and its panel.

Click any icon to slide the panel open. Click it again to close. Click a different icon to switch tabs. The drawer remembers which tab you had open, so it returns to where you left off.

The Timer Tab

The Timer tab has four sections, from top to bottom.

Stats at a Glance

A donut chart shows your time distribution by category for the current month, with total hours in the center. Around it: your entry count, how you compare to last month, and your average per day and today's hours, which become Overhead and Momentum when Project Manager is on. You can hide this widget with the eye icon if you prefer more room for the task lists.

Active Timer

When a timer is running, a strip appears showing the category or task name, the project, and elapsed time counting up. A stop button lets you end it without scrolling back to the toolbar.

Recent Tasks

A collapsible list of project and category combinations you have recently tracked time against. Each row shows a color chip and the category and project name.

Click a row to open a new time entry form pre-filled with that project and category.

Click the stopwatch icon on a row to start a timer for that category immediately. If a timer is already running, you are asked whether to switch — stopping the current timer and starting the new one.

Project Manager Tasks

Below recent tasks, a second collapsible section shows your assigned and available Project Manager tasks, grouped by project. Click a task to open the entry form with the project, category, and task already linked. Click the info icon to open the full task detail dialog without leaving the drawer.

Keyboard Shortcuts

With the Timer tab open and no dialog or field focused, press R and the first nine Recent Tasks rows are numbered; press a number to start a timer for that row. T does the same for the Project Manager Tasks list, where the number opens a time entry form for that task. Escape cancels. Open the drawer, press R, then 1, and you are timing what you did last, with no mouse needed. Every shortcut is listed on Productivity Drawer.

The Project Manager Tab

The Project Manager tab shifts focus from time tracking to workload. At the top, a pressure gauge shows whether you are on track, behind, at risk, or overloaded based on your assigned work and capacity. Below that: estimated load in hours, your velocity (hours per day), the number of tasks assigned to you, and how many are overdue.

The same active timer strip appears here, followed by a Task Search section and your assigned and available tasks. Type a word from a task's description in Search descriptions and press Enter or click the magnifier, then click a result to open the task. The task list works the same way as on the Timer tab — click a task to open a time entry form, or click the stopwatch to start a timer.

The difference from the Timer tab is the framing. The Timer tab is oriented around what you have been doing (recent entries, monthly stats). The Project Manager tab is oriented around what you need to do (assigned tasks, capacity pressure).

Notifications

The Notifications tab shows two sub-tabs: Inbox and Archived. You get a notification when a task assigned to you changes — blocked, moved, scheduled, and so on — when an epic you follow is activated or archived, when you are mentioned in a comment or someone comments on a task assigned to you, and when your AI agent sends you a message.

Unread notifications stand out with a colored left border. Click a notification to mark it as read. When it relates to a task or epic, the Task or Epic link on the row opens that page, and a message from your agent opens in a Message panel beside the drawer. Archive notifications you have dealt with, or use Archive read to clear all read notifications in bulk. Every panel is described in full on Productivity Drawer.