Talix Time · Desktop companion
Designers in Figma, developers in VS Code, consultants on calls — none of them remember a browser tab. Talix Time lives in the menu bar, survives bad Wi-Fi, and lands every entry in the same project workflow you bill from.
Why this page exists
4:47 PM Tuesday
A designer wraps a 90-minute client revision in Figma and reaches for her timer. The browser tab she opened this morning has been auto-suspended; the timer never started. Three days a week, the same conversation: “Was that 90 minutes or 60? I'll round down.”
Multiplied across the team, by Friday: a quarter of the work nobody bills for. Not because of bad intentions. Because the timer wasn't where the work was.
When the desktop layer matters
When the work is happening in Figma, VS Code, Slack, a Zoom call, or a Notion doc, the browser tab with the timer is somewhere behind 30 other tabs — or never opened at all. The menu bar means one click from any app, no context switch, no forgotten start.
On a flight, at a client site with shaky internet, in a coffee shop dead zone — Talix Time keeps tracking locally and queues every entry. The moment connectivity returns, the queue syncs back into your Talix workspace. No replay, no estimate, no missed time.
Stepped away for a call, lunch, or a meeting? Talix Time notices and asks: bill it or trash it? You decide before the time hits an invoice — not after a client asks why a single entry is 90 minutes long.
How Talix Time fits the workflow
Sign into Talix Time with your existing Talix account. The same projects, clients, and rates show up automatically — there's no separate billing system to maintain.
Start a timer from the menu bar without leaving the app you're working in. Tag the project from the dropdown, and the entry carries the right client, rate, and engagement context from the moment it begins.
When you come back, Talix Time asks what to do with the gap — bill it, trash it, or keep it as non-billable internal time. The decision happens before the entry hits a draft invoice, not after.
Entries flow back into Talix automatically when Wi-Fi returns. They appear in the same project list as web-tracked time, ready for approval and invoicing — no parallel system, no duplicate entries to reconcile.
What changes after install
Friction that kept people from logging short tasks goes away when the timer is one click in the menu bar. The hours that used to round down now make it onto the invoice.
Idle review keeps stray minutes — lunch, a meeting, a forgotten timer — out of client billing. The invoice reflects the work, not the timer's drift.
Offline queue means the timer never breaks when the connection does. Mid-flight, mid-tunnel, mid-client-site — every minute lands.
Signed and notarized for macOS, code-signed for Windows. No Gatekeeper warnings, no SmartScreen detours — your team can install and start tracking in the same coffee break.
What this app refuses to do
Talix Time does not take screenshots, log keystrokes, watch which applications you open, or track activity outside the timers you start yourself. It needs an active Talix account to sign in — it isn't a standalone timer disconnected from your billing workflow. Free with every Talix plan, including Starter.