Make every hour understandable.
Practical work-record checks for small teams: capture less, correct transparently and prove the export before choosing time-tracking software.
Start with the record your recipient needs. Choose a time tracker only after a small, fictional workweek survives capture, correction and export.
A timer is the beginning, not the answer.
A precise total can still contain the wrong date, a missing correction or the wrong unit. Worklog Guide helps small-team operators turn those differences into questions they can answer before relying on a report. We review public documentation and build practical worksheets; we do not claim hands-on testing of the products.
Follow the record, not the feature list.
First decide what you need to record. Then agree how a person can correct it. Finally, check what survives into the recipient’s file. If your current spreadsheet already does those jobs reliably, keep it. More activity data is not automatically a better work record.
Your first useful check
Take 7 hours and 30 minutes. An hours-and-minutes entry is 7:30; its decimal equivalent is 7.5, not 7.30. This small distinction is easy to miss in a polished dashboard. Our export check gives you a converter and six fictional cases that expose problems before real records are involved.
Sources and boundaries
Primary documentation supports the dated product facts. Proposed checks and fictional examples are our editorial method, not observed product results.
- DeskTime — export · checked September 23, 2026
- Time Doctor — export · checked September 23, 2026