Timeglass
Granola does not include billable timesheets. It records meetings and prepares notes that you can use alongside a timekeeping system. To bill for client work, you need a process for recording durations, assigning clients and projects, and reviewing entries. Granola’s documentation index lists its features.
The question comes up naturally when client calls occupy a large part of the calendar. A meeting record can remind you what happened and which project it concerned. Completing a billable record also requires a duration, an agreed allocation, and the person’s approval before the hours reach an invoice.
What Granola captures during a meeting
Granola combines the notes you type with a meeting transcript to prepare a fuller record of the conversation. That record can support follow-up work, recall of decisions, and questions about earlier discussions. Its note-generation guide explains how the transcript and your written notes contribute to the result.
Calendar connections help place a conversation in context. You can prepare notes before a scheduled call and return to the record afterward. Spaces and folders organize records for individual or team use. Granola’s introductory guide describes those parts of the workflow.
Those records are useful when preparing a timesheet. A discussion about a website revision may establish the client, the request, and the next task. Check the actual time spent and the client agreement before using that discussion to support a billable entry. A concise summary can omit details that affect billing.
What a complete billable record needs
A complete billable record connects elapsed work to a client agreement. It identifies the person, date, client, project, task, and duration, then passes through the firm’s review process. The same standard should cover the call, its preparation, the changes requested, and the follow-up delivered after everyone leaves.
Consider a designer who attends a client review, updates a layout, replies to comments, and prepares files for approval. The conversation supplies context for the request. The subsequent work has its own duration and description, even when it belongs to the same project. Recording those pieces separately can make the final invoice easier to explain.
Billing rules also depend on the engagement. An hourly client may need a detailed entry for each task. A retainer client may use the same time data to review the monthly budget. A fixed-fee project may require internal effort reporting even when the customer receives a single agreed price.
Ways teams assemble their timesheets
Teams commonly assemble a timesheet from calendars, timers, meeting records, and the files they worked on. Each source helps answer part of the billing question. A useful process gives the employee enough context to check their day and gives the reviewer a consistent record across clients and projects.
A person can transfer a meeting’s duration and description into the firm’s timekeeping tool. Before submission, they should check whether the call happened as scheduled, whether breaks occurred, and whether the work belongs to one client or several. Copying a calendar block without checking those details can overstate or understate the work.
Start-and-stop timers provide a direct way to record work as it happens. They require attention when a person switches from a client request to an internal task. A short daily review helps catch an unfinished timer, a missing description, or an entry assigned to the previous project.
Some people use notes and file history to reconstruct the week later. That approach becomes harder when several small requests look alike. A regular review during the week reduces the amount a person has to remember at the billing deadline. The right cadence depends on the volume and variety of work.
How Timeglass records the conversation
Timeglass keeps a meeting summary, action items, and the transcript together. The colored speaker timeline shows where each person spoke, and percentages show their share of attributed speaking time. Use this record to check a client’s request and its follow-up work.
You can replay available video and audio, follow the transcript, and use chapters or a summary timestamp to return to a moment. Completed meeting records show the date, start and end times, duration, and platform, including Google Meet. You can review a client decision before writing the description for its billable entry.
The Timeglass meeting page shows the recording, summary, and transcript workflow in more detail.
How Timeglass identifies speakers
Speaker diarization separates a recording into turns by different people. Timeglass names speakers automatically, separates your voice from the call audio, and recognizes returning voices when Speaker Names is enabled. You can check who requested a change and who agreed to the next step before preparing a time entry.
Timeglass merges teammates’ recordings of a call into one transcript. Names connect action items to people and give AI tools context. Learn more about speaker identification.
How automatic timesheets fit the process
Timeglass uses captured desktop work and meeting context to prepare time entries with client, project, and activity assignments. The employee can review the resulting record and correct it before submission under the workspace’s settings. This brings the work around a meeting into the same timekeeping process as the conversation.
During review, check the duration, assignment, and description. A person may need to split mixed work, change a project, hide personal activity, or add work completed away from the computer. The entry-review guide explains the available corrections and the role of workspace permissions.
For a trial, choose a familiar week and agree on the billing rules before comparing records. Ask employees to review a few detailed days, then have the person responsible for invoicing check the exported entries. Keep a record of corrections so you can see which assignments need clearer project context.
Confirm who can see captured activity, when submitted time becomes available to reviewers, and which capture settings apply. These choices belong in the rollout conversation with employees. Our article on human review describes why a person’s check remains part of a dependable timekeeping process.
See how Timeglass writes timesheets and follow an entry from captured work through review.
Using Granola and Timeglass together
A team can retain Granola for its preferred note-taking workflow and use Timeglass for meeting review and time reporting across the working day. Agree on which tool holds each record, who maintains it, and how people handle recording notices. Test a normal client call before adopting the arrangement across the firm.
Our research includes a consultant who combined meeting notes, calendar context, and Timeglass records in an AI-assisted review. That example describes one working setup. Check permissions, duplicate recording, and computer performance on the devices your employees use.
The Timeglass and Granola comparison covers the selection questions in more detail. Agencies can also use our client-services guide to plan project assignment, review, and the handoff into billing.
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
The details of billing depend on your client agreement and the systems your firm uses. These answers separate the supporting meeting record from the steps required to approve and invoice time. Use a small, reviewed sample of real work to assess whether the proposed workflow fits your team.
For current connection options, consult Granola’s integrations directory and MCP documentation before designing the transfer into your timekeeping system.
Does Granola integrate with time trackers?
Granola documents connections through tools including Zapier and MCP. Check the current integrations directory for the specific timekeeping system you use, and test the fields transferred before relying on a connection for billing. An available connection still needs an agreed process for duration, assignment, review, and duplicate records.
Can AI turn meeting notes into timesheet entries?
AI can propose an entry from a meeting record when you supply the required billing context. A person should verify the duration, client, project, and description against the work performed. Include preparation and follow-up through their own records, then apply the firm’s normal approval process.
Is meeting time billable?
Your client agreement determines whether a particular meeting is billable. Check the scope, any exclusions, and the agreed billing increments. Record enough detail for the reviewer to understand how the conversation served the engagement, and use the same standard for preparation and follow-up.
How accurate is automatic time tracking?
Accuracy depends on capture settings, available project context, and the kind of work performed. Assess it with a reviewed sample from your team and keep track of the corrections required. A useful evaluation checks durations, client assignments, and descriptions against the work performed.
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