# Time tracking using Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-tracking-using-discourse/117194>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 8, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-tracking-using-discourse/117194 "2019-05-08T17:23:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-tracking-using-discourse/117194/1 "2019-05-08T17:23:33Z")

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Hi folks. I’ve poked around as this topic has come up now and then over the years, but has anyone successfully found a way to use Discourse to log time/effort/money spent by people working on a project.

We have the assign plugin that is great to show who’s doing what, but I don’t see any clear standard for keeping track of how much effort was spent on the various things that were assigned.

An alternative is something like GitLab which allows you to run an issue tracker and log time against it with comments (which get added to cumlative totals and then you can run reports on it). But in some cases, folks would rather keep everything in Discourse rather than running two separate systems.

This may not be an actual Discourse feature, but rather may be more of a hack that folks have come up with. Anyone have any experience or ideas?

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