YouTrackTimeTracker

YouTrackTimeTracker is a powerful Visual Studio extension designed to streamline the tracking of development time directly within your workflow. It automatically monitors the developer’s active working time on YouTrack tasks, ensuring that every minute spent on a project is accurately logged without requiring manual input.

The extension operates silently in the background, recording actual time spent on tasks while you focus on coding. All tracked time is stored locally in a Git configuration file associated with the current repository, allowing precise synchronization between your work and the corresponding YouTrack tasks. This approach ensures that the recorded time is persistent and easily accessible, even if Visual Studio is closed or restarted.

YouTrackTimeTracker also intelligently manages data integrity. If a working Git branch is not found, the extension automatically cleans up unnecessary or “garbage” time entries, preventing clutter in your logs and avoiding incorrect task reporting. This feature ensures that your time tracking is always aligned with the relevant project context.

The plugin is fully integrated into Visual Studio, providing a seamless experience without disrupting your workflow. It supports multiple tasks and branches, automatically switching tracking context as you move between different tasks, and synchronizes time entries to YouTrack once work is completed or manually submitted.

With YouTrackTimeTracker, developers gain an accurate, hands-free solution to manage time reporting, improve productivity insights, and maintain a clean, organized history of task activity directly in their Git-managed projects.