Getting Started

Tracking a task with Whid is super easy! Press ⌘ .: this should open the compact tracker window.

You can type the name of the task that you are working on, for example “Showcase Whid”, and press Enter. This will start tracking your time.

You can check how much time was tracked so far if you reopen the compact tracker by pressing the shortcut.

You can stop tracking by reopening the compact tracker, and pressing Enter, without typing anything.

If you type a new task and press Enter while a task is still being tracked, Whid will stop tracking the previous task and start tracking the new task.

If you forgot to start your task or you are accidentally tracking the wrong task, because you started working on something else, you can use the compact tracker window to adjust your tracked times.

Let’s assume that you started your meeting at 13:00, but you forgot to start tracking, and the meeting is already going. No worries, just type the task name in the compact tracker, and add the start time afterwards, e.g. “Dev/Standup 13:00”. This will move back the start time of your current task to 13:00. If you had another task running, it will also be closed at 13:00.

For a full list of commands, please check our Short Commands page.

Currently Whid supports syncing the times to seven systems: Jira, ClickUp, Asana, Clockify, YouTrack, Toggl Track and PDash. Before using the sync feature, you have to set the credentials in Settings > Profile. You can open it by right clicking on the tray icon of Whid and selecting Settings. For detailed instructions on the setup, please open the documentation of the corresponding target system.

You can open the sync overlay from the Main Window. To open the Main Window, you can right click on the tray icon and select the Main Window.

In the Main Window, click on the “Sync times” button in the upper right corner. This opens the sync overlay.

For each task you can enter a sync ID and select the target sync system. For a detailed description on how to set the sync IDs, please refer to the the documentation of the corresponding target system. In this example we sync to Jira Cloud using the WHID project to the issue with the ID WHID-1.

You can leave those fields empty where you don’t want to sync. The sync IDs of the children tasks are automatically filled with the parent task IDs, but you can override them.

After selecting which entries you would like to sync and filling the corresponding sync IDs, you can click on “Sync selected”.

To get a quick overview of your week, switch to the Calendar in the sidebar. It lays every time frame of the selected week onto a familiar day-by-hour grid, so you can see at a glance how your time was spent, and spot any gaps or overlaps you might want to fix.

Each entry shows the task name and its start–end time, and is colored by its top-level task (e.g. everything under “Work” shares one color), which makes it easy to read how your day was split across projects.

With Whid PRO the calendar becomes fully interactive, so you can fix up your week right where you see it instead of jumping to the Main Window:

• Create an entry by dragging across an empty spot.
• Move an entry by dragging it.
• Resize an entry by dragging its top or bottom edge.

Hold ⌥ while dragging to copy an entry instead of moving it, and hold ⇧ to drag by the minute rather than snapping to the default 5-minute steps.