# 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: ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-tracking-using-discourse/117194/6 "2024-02-13T11:03:53Z")

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The [leantime software](https://leantime.io/all-about-open-source-project-management/) seems to have a number of complimentary functionality that seems useful for project management. Are there people here using _leantime_ who could make a feature comparison with project management in Discourse?

Here is a short overview of _leantime_ features, from the above link:

| Leantime | Discourse | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Todos | [Kanban Board](https://meta.discourse.org/t/kanban-board/118164), [Discourse Assign](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-assign/58044) | ✅ |
| Milestones | ? | ❓ |
| Ideas | Topics? | ✅ |
| Docs | [Discourse Docs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-docs-documentation-management/130172) | ✅ |
| Blueprints | ? | ❓ (maybe [Discourse Templates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-templates/229250) would be useful here?) |
| Reports | ? | ❌ (this is the @Campano’s interest) |
| Timesheets | ? | ❌ (ditto) |
| Retrospectives | Topics? | ✅ |

I think it would be interesting to see how much time was spent on a topic, especially in the context of a task. Although ‘reading time’ is an indicative figure, it lacks context. Since there is an estimation of reading time in a topic, there could be a way to estimate time spent responding to a topic – or at least some measurement that would send an alert to the user telling whether they’re spending _too much_ time on this topic. But as I write this I also consider the implementation nightmare of such time estimation, especially as _writing_ is a different thing than researching what to write or spending time resolving an issue, so it’s mostly abstract and detached from any single _real_ situation. That said, a burndown chart (“Reports”) for tasks (using the Kanban board) would be useful, as well as milestone management (grouping tasks together to understand scope and follow progress).

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