I’ve used various services to manage my private tasks, and lately I’ve been using Jira. I had impression that Jira was difficult to use, but it seems that a next-generation project was released in 2018, and now it feels good.

If you record the time taken for a task using Jira alone, you need to enter it manually as shown below, but by installing a third-party Toggl Integration for Jira, you can use the Toggl’s start/stop button, and when you stop it, the measured time will be reflected in Jira. I don’t intend to do this in a team, but it’s free for up to 10 people.

Toggl’s Chrome extension also supports Jira, but the advantage of using this Integration is that the button is displayed not only on the web but also on the app, which is the biggest motivation for using Jira.

Toggl is easy to create workflows that integrate with other services by Zapier or Make. Zapier is feature-rich but expensive and has only 100 tasks/month in the free plan. By the way, in the past, the only way to increase the number of tasks was to upgrade the plan, but recently it seems that you can run additional tasks by paying an additional fee. On the other hand, Make has 1000 tasks in the free plan, and depending on how you use it, it may be enough.

This scenario adds schedules to Google Calendar every 6 hours. Toogle itself has a calendar view, and you can also see it together with your schedule by Google Calendar integration, but this way can reduce the number of places to access.