How to Time Track in Notion: the 3 BEST Methods 

I think the last formula should be - dateBetween(dateEnd(prop("Date")), dateStart(prop("Date")), "minutes")

Thanks a lot. I was looking for a method to track my education and work time in notion, your first way is perfect for me.

If you find yourself forgetting to have your End Time before Start Time when filling out your formulas, just wrap the whole thing in an abs() to automatically convert the negative times to positives.

For the first method, you can add another category called Status, and in the button property, below the "Do this", add another property to set the status to "in progress" for start button, and "done" for end button. This will prevent accidental miss

You can go and edit the time if you forget to hit stop

That's fun, I've just discovered Notion few days ago and yesterday evening I was working on time tracking for task management and get to the same button solution but with extra actions who modify also a status prop... that's a visual confirmation you clicked on the buttons (problem, that doesn't prevent you to click multiple time on them...) Then I struggled to emulate a "pause" button...

you're so awesome for making these vids! thank u!

Thanks for the vid, very good content. A quick question - if I was to use option 1 and then forget to hit the end button, could I open up the start and end columns and manually update the end date? That way I can use auto time tracking but can still fix when I forget to stop or I already started a task but didn’t hit start immediately. Maybe not hide those two columns so you can see the value and change if required. Not sure if the Notion DB can do this?

Hi, your tutorial is useful, however, I am trying to create a clock in/out databases for a job team, and I am not sure if your first method allows accumulating the worked hours. Because when I try to restart the cycle of time tracking, it is like the time gets restarted, losing the previous register. And also, if not easy to identify when a particular bottom is activated.

How do you handle working on the same tasks over several days? In other words, you're working on the same task on and off. Is there a way to roll up total total time?

But can we count the time of a tag ? I'd like to know how much time a member is in a tag state , with breaks when the tag is changed

What about time blocking in calander. But splitting/duplicating the task over 2 or 3 days. How would it calculate the total time.

After using the first option the 'minutes' column won't show anything. Why?