See what your team's working on with document title tracking

Use document title tracking to see what files your team is spending time on and keep up with project progress effortlessly.

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TL;DR: When DeskTime tracks time, it saves the entire title of the app or website. You can see not just what apps were used, but also what was open inside them and for how long (for example, Word document titles, email subject lines, Teams channel names). This way, you can accurately monitor how much time was spent on each task. Since DeskTime does not record the actual content within those files or messages, it is a way to gain valuable productivity insights while ensuring data privacy.

How does document title tracking with DeskTime work?

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Track time with the app

You need to install the DeskTime desktop app to track document titles.

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Switch between tasks and files

Document titles, email subject lines, Slack channel names, etc., are logged along the time spent there.

A screenshot of the DeskTime document title tracking feature
Data and privacy protection

DeskTime cannot see the content of the files – only their names, so sensitive info is protected.

Get detailed work habit insights

Understand which pages and files your team spends time on—not just the apps they use.

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Gain peace of mind about work progress with document title tracking

By tracking document titles, you can easily follow how projects are proceeding and ensure that everyone stays focused on the right priorities.

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Hands-off management

No need to interrupt the workflow by asking for constant project status updates – just check the tracked time data.

A focused team

Rest assured that your team members are working on the project at hand instead of planning their birthday party.

Accurate reports for your clients

You can use precise time tracking data to bill your customers for the exact time spent on their projects.

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Let these concerns disappear out of sight and out of mind

Micromanagement

Use document title tracking data as project status updates, letting your team stay in the zone.

Unproductive habits

Your team won't waste hours on idle chatter, knowing it will show up in their tracked time.

Manual timers and guesstimates

See how long projects take by checking how much time is spent on files related to them.

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Marc Miquel

Senior User Researcher, Enterprise

"Desktime helps me stay productive and to limit time"

"I know that at the end of the week, I want not to exceed a certain number of hours, but I also set myself some productivity % goals (time focused on certain apps / total time). I have used it for more than 7 years."
Sreejith B.

Assistant Manager, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity insights with DeskTime"

"I am an IT admin as well as a project lead. My job is to monitor and manage my employees, who mainly work from home. With DeskTime, we can measure their productivity, monitor their worktime activity, and evaluate their performance based on their time efficiency."
Diego Carballo

CISO, Mid-Market

"Highly efficient tool"

It allows me to see where I spend my day, find opportunities to improve my productivity, and balance my work with necessary breaks. It’s a tool that gives me clarity without being intrusive. It also allows me to control my work team and measure their level of productivity.
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Tarun S.

Head of Product, Small-Business

"Amazing choice for tracking performance of employees"

DeskTime provides valuable intelligence and support for managing our distributed teams. It offers easily digestible performance metrics for our remote employees. Their competitive pricing further solidified our decision.
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Abhay Singh Rana

UI/UX Designer, Mid-Market

"Perfect activity tracking"

It helps our company's hybrid culture by tracking the productivity of every employee working from home and generating weekly reports to review everyone's performance accurately. The software also helps employees focus more on their tasks without being distracted by unproductive apps or sites.
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Verified User

Computer Software, Mid-Market

"Efficient and user-friendly time tracking tool"

With its detailed reports and automatic time tracking, we can optimize workflows, improve project planning, and ensure accurate billing for client work. This has led to better productivity insights, more efficient time management, and enhanced team performance overall.
Natasha Sierra

Practice Manager, Mid-Market

"Has improved our staff's productivity"

DeskTime assists us in monitoring productivity, tracking time spent on tasks, and identifying workflow inefficiencies. It provides valuable information, which supports better team management and accountability.
Parminder Singh U.

CEO, Mid-Market

"Efficient time tracking and productivity enhancement with DeskTime"

With DeskTime’s automatic idle time and break detection features, we easily monitor the work-life balance within teams. It eliminates the need for manual reporting, leaving no room for error.
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Verified User

Computer Software, Small-Business

"One of the best tools for remote teams management and instant reporting."

I really like that it has clock-in, clock-out, and holiday management. It's easy to use, and I implemented it very fast. The support that I was offered was great!

How DeskTime works

With DeskTime, you can see your employees' arrival and departure times, analyze their productivity, schedule shifts, oversee absences, maintain a healthy work-life balance, keep track of specific projects, and more.

Step 1 to start using DeskTime: Sign up and download the desktop app
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Step 2 to start using DeskTime: Add your employee details and create teams
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Step 3 to start using DeskTime: Start tracking time and see productivity insights
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Frequently asked questions about document title tracking

The purpose of document title tracking is to provide an even deeper understanding of how work is progressing and what takes up most of your team's time. The DeskTime app can log not only the app or website you're visiting but also the specific file name, email subject line, or Slack channel name, for example. This way, you can see what exactly everyone's working on and how long certain tasks take. This can help you and your team improve your productivity, organize your work more effectively, and bill your clients precisely, using the exact time you spent working on their projects down to the second.
The document title tracking feature logs the file names and other information for different apps. It'll track the document names for office apps, such as Word or Google Docs; it's also handy for design tools like Illustrator and Photoshop, tracking the project names. The DeskTime app also tracks the email subject lines to show how much time is spent in specific threads. It's also compatible with team communication apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and others – DeskTime tracks the time spent in different channels or groups.
No, the document title tracking feature logs only the titles of the files, emails, channels, etc. – it does not record the contents of the files themselves. So, if your team is worried about an invasion of their privacy, you can reassure them that sensitive information in the documents will not become visible via this feature. As a manager, if you are worried that your team members might try to cheat the system with document title tracking enabled, you can also take advantage of the Screenshots feature DeskTime offers.
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