Prevent time tracking on two items at same time

Feature requests
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Sometimes I forget to turn off time tracking on 1 or more items and then start tracking time on a new item. Things can also happen with members of my team. But we can only do one thing at a time. :wink:
I do realize that there are examples, in theory, where someone might be doing two related things at the same time and might therefore want to track time for 2 items at the same time.
That said, please at least provide an alert letting the user know, that there is a related item where they are currently tracking time and would they like to stop tracking time on the other item before tracking time on the new item?

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I agree with above.
At teamwork.com they solve it by having a little indicator on the bottom of the screen that shows the current time tracking. The widget stays where ever you navigate in the app.
Once you start a new time tracking the previous pauses.
The recent tracked tasks stay in the widget wich makes it easy to switch between the recent task.
Often you switch between the same task during one day so i think something like this could be pretty handy

UI and UX of teamwork.com is horrible (I try to switch our company to Monday) but this little feature is great!

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Absolutely! I recently added a new feature request for what Sven suggested.

It also happens to me very often that I forget stopping a task, switch to another one and press “working on it”.

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+1 for this request. Stopping the current tracking should be automatic when switching to another task and starting a timer. Having multiple timer running is the open door to messy time reporting and angry clients when someone forgot to close one or multiple timer after leaving work?.

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Me too on this request

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Any progress in this request?
I’ve tried some automation like “start tracking and move to a RunningNow board” on status change. It gives a visibility (there shouldn’t be 2 tasks in this kanban board or group). But I have no idea on how to move the task back to the correct board/group on pause.
If we can’t automatically pause all other tasks on starting a new tracking we’d at least see all task tracked at this moment in s special widget (top of the screen
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@baddogpaul @hughmacken @AntonR @gmagnenat @Sven.H
Auto stop on task change in this new time tracking clock, stops staff from recording on multiple clocks as the first clock will stop when they press play on the second clock. The app is Smart Timer and Team Tracking which has the same look and feel as the native monday.com timer.

We had the same pain point with our service based business, correctly recorded billable time is so important, so we got our dev to build a solution which we have now released to the monday.com marketplace.

We also built in the ability for the team to see LIVE who is recording time on what, this helps us to manage our remote team and re-delegate work as needed.

We have only recently launched so if there are any tweaks that would help it better suit your business feel free to add to the live chat and we will see if we can roll it out in the next update.