Now You Can Track Breaks Too

With the latest update, you can now track breaks within your time registration in Keeping. We’ve implemented breaks as an optional feature, allowing you to choose what works best for you.

To use breaks, you need at least the Keeping Plus plan.

Breaks in Your Time Tracking

We often receive emails asking, "How do I add breaks to my time entries?" Until now, that wasn’t possible. We wanted to find a user-friendly way to integrate breaks in Keeping without compromising on functionality – and now we have!

Previously, breaks weren’t explicitly tracked. For example, at the end of the day, you might see time entries from 08:30 to 12:00 (lunchtime 🥗) and then from 12:30 to 17:00 (home time 🏡). You recorded working time, including a half-hour break, but the break itself wasn’t logged separately. After considerable design and development, we’ve now given breaks their own dedicated space in Keeping.

Adding a Break Over an Existing Time Entry

Suppose you’ve logged a time entry from 09:30 to 14:30, as shown below. If you then enter a break from 12:00 to 13:00, your time entry will automatically split into two entries: one from 09:30 to 12:00 and another from 13:00 to 14:30.

Breaks are designed so they never overlap with recorded working time. Adding a break will always neatly split time entries if necessary to avoid overlap. Naturally, breaks are not counted toward your total working hours. Breaks also appear in reports, adding a new column that displays breaks within the selected report.

Breaks are available on your mobile device, as well as through the Google Chrome extension and Firefox add-on. Learn more about how breaks work on our support page.

Time Tracking and Breaks with Keeping

Start tracking your hours (and now breaks too 😀) today.