Is there a mobile web interface?

Yes! Just you point your phone or mobile web browser at m.keeptempo.com and you’ll be presented with a simple screen that allows you to enter your billing.

How do I log time through email?

Each account in Tempo has a Post-by-Email Alias that can be set on the Account / Upgrade screen. Just send e-mail to your_alias@keeptempo.com and our software will read your time entry from the e-mail and record it in your account.

You can put your time entry in either the subject or the body of the message, but it’s important that you use this format:

  num_of_hours description #project @tag @tag @tag

Each label after an @-symbol is assumed to be either a tag name, or a project reference. First Tempo checks to see if the word is similar to any of your project names, and if not it is added as a tag. If none of the labels correspond to a project name, Tempo assigns the entry to your default Personal project.

Here’s an example logging 3 hours to a project named Conglomo Web Gate, and we want to tag it with the words development and testing:

  3 Unit testing for modules in ISAPI filter #conglomo @development @testing

How do I log time with Twitter?

Just log into Tempo and enter your Twitter ID on the Account / Upgrade screen. Be sure to save your profile at the bottom of the page before continuing.

Once Tempo knows your Twitter ID you can log time entries by sending a direct message to our ‘keeptempo’ account. The message must begin with d keeptempo and follow the standard message format. Consider the following example that logs 2 hours to the project ‘Tempo’ with ‘html’ and ‘documentation’ as tags:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our keeptempo account must follow your account in order for us to recieve your messages (this is Twitter’s requirement, not ours). Tempo follows you automatically when add your Twitter id to your profile so you usually won’t need to do anything. However, if you have your Twitter account set to “protected”, then you must explicitly accept our friend request or you won’t be able to log time.

Can I use my iPhone?

Absolutely – in fact you can use iPhone’s Safari web browser to use the site as normal, or you can go to m.keeptempo.com to access an iPhone optimized time entry site.