Individual entry with title + multiline detailed description for actually useful reporting

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I have another great suggestion🥳

I am doing client work and track the work I am doing. Most of the work is done without the client knowing about it (maintenance, updates, taking care of website + infrastructure in the background). I want to send the client a report every quarter (or maybe monthly). I even consider giving live access to a filtered report.

However, it’s difficult to describe what I did. The current very short description of an entry is not made for this.

I would be so cool to have a global setting where I can select the mode:

  1. simple mode (as it is right now)
  2. detailed mode

Even better, make it in a smart way without me having to pick a mode. Becaus when offering two modes you would need to do checks when a user switches the mode in the settings.

What is the detailed mode?
It brings up an additional field for each entry. Instead of having only this one line of text for the description it has a title (maybe up to 255 char) and a detailed description (without an actual limit).

Let’s say I am working on a problem on 4 different days. Every day I add a time entry. Every day I pick the very same entry, which has a title and a description.

Title: Fixing Weglot problems after updating plugin
Details: Here can go a more detailed description that explains to the client in the report what was going and and on top of that is helpful for myself. This way I can completely rely on Toggl as my single source. Everythign I did for the client will be logged in there in a way that I can understand an entire year even if I go over the report.

It’s incredibly powerful and gives options to use Toggl on a different level.

All because I am able to describe each entry in more detail.

This way I could have actually useful report. All automatic right out of Toggl.

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This would be amazing! The app could predict the mode based on how many characters you start entering or based on previous activity. :+1: for this request.

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Thank you for sharing such a detailed feature request! It sounds great. We are working towards incorporating smart features in the future, and this would fit right in. :slightly_smiling_face:

While I can’t make any promises, I can assure you that this has been noted down and shared with the product team for consideration in future development.

Please share any other suggestions you may have! We truly appreciate it. Suggestions from users help us build a better experience in the future. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for your reply. The simple mode and detailed mode was more of an illustration, it’s technically more difficult to implement it than having a single mode (also better UX). Interested to see what you can come up with a “smart mode” (could be everything these days).

The fundament of my idea would probably be simply another field (details) of each entry. If it’s empty then you simply don’t show it to get the same result as it is now. But we as users have the choice in that case.

The reports must be amazing. Reports with manual data with real value to a client without much of an additional effort in tracking.