Entries That Sound Like Her: Time to the Decimal at Gould & Ratner
A paralegal on narratives written in her own vocabulary, and a day captured to the exact hour.
Ask Megan DeVries about Hourglass and she talks about the writing first. Timekeeping software is usually judged on whether it catches the hours; she judges the entries themselves, and hers read the way she would have written them. “They represent the task at hand,” she says, “which I love.”
Entries that sound like her
The system writes in her vocabulary, not a generic one. She has rules: conference means a Teams or Zoom meeting, discussion means talking to someone in person. It is the kind of personal code a careful timekeeper builds so that, if an entry is ever questioned, the language itself is evidence of what happened. Hourglass drafts to those rules instead of making her re-edit for them.
The capture underneath is just as exact. She checked the numbers herself: “I worked 7.5 hours exactly on Thursday, and it captured 7.5.” The day comes back whole, to the decimal.
And it comes back organized: a dozen entries assemble themselves under the right matter before she ever sorts a thing. Her verdict on that one is short: “a big time saver.”