If your team bills clients by the hour or plans sprints from real effort, time tracking is not a nice-to-have. Notion does not list it among its plan features, so teams that run projects in Notion either add a connection or build a timesheet out of databases. Both can work. This post lays out what each route involves, and when it is simpler to track time in the same tool that holds the tasks.
1. What Notion Offers
Notion's pricing page lists databases, forms, sites, charts, AI and connections, but no time tracking feature on any plan. Its Connections gallery fills the gap with third-party trackers. Everhour, for example, describes itself as time tracking software that tracks time and sets estimates, syncs Notion projects so a team can start tracking right away, sets fixed-fee or recurring budgets, and keeps its reports current when a task is renamed in Notion. The gallery's footer is worth reading: connections not designated as Made by Notion are not supported or maintained by Notion, so support comes from the tracker's vendor.
2. The Database Workaround
The other route is a timesheet database: one row per entry, a relation to the task, a number property for hours and a rollup on the task. It costs nothing extra and stays inside Notion, but it is manual by design, with no timer, and it adds properties and rollups to the very databases Notion's own help article says load more slowly as visible properties grow and as sorts and filters lean on formula and rollup properties.
3. What You Lose When Time Lives Elsewhere
A tracker in another product records hours well, but the project tool does not use them. Estimates are not checked against actuals, a sprint plan does not learn from last month, and the client report is assembled from two systems. That is fine for a team that only needs an invoice. It is a real cost for a team that wants its plans to get more accurate.
4. Time Tracking Built Into Kavanah
Kavanah has native time tracking on every plan, including the free Starter plan, logged against tasks. Because the hours sit beside the estimates, the sprint planner can compare each person's estimates with the hours they actually logged on tasks completed in the last 90 days and show what fits at the median and at the 90th percentile. Clients you invite through the client portal can follow their projects without being charged as a seat. AI employees can draft the weekly status from the same records, inside the projects you give them.
5. Which Route Fits
If your team lives in Notion and only needs hours for invoicing, a supported connection such as Everhour is the least disruptive choice. If the hours are meant to make plans better or to show clients where time went, put them in the tool where the tasks are. You can do that without leaving Notion behind: Kavanah's Notion connector imports a database as tasks, up to 200 rows per run, and its agent can still read the wiki.
Time tracking is where a docs-first tool and a project-first tool differ most in daily use. For the full dated comparison of Kavanah, Notion, ClickUp and Asana, see our Notion alternative page.
