Teaching AutoSheet

Time Tracking: AutoSheet Handbook Learn how to train Timely AutoSheet to make better project assignments and time entry suggestions over time.
Video transcript

Mathias, founder of Timely here. Let me show you how to make AutoSheet perfectly track your time and create your timesheet.

So by default, the AI model is super smart, right? But depending on your project setup, you might want to teach it a couple of things before it can actually perfectly predict your timesheet. To begin with, it’s also important to note that only when you submit a timesheet and the day becomes green, that’s when the actual AI model looks at your timesheet and uses that for training.

So any day in draft mode, it will not use whatever you tell it for its next generation. So make sure to submit a timesheet.

And then we suggest you just start with the unassigned bucket. That’s the stuff the model is unsure of. You just click it to open up and then you see the different things that it put there. So from 9:30 to 10, it has this review map project. So to actually tell it, oh no, this should go to a different project, you just click search project, put it in the Data and Benefit project for example — this will flash green up here.

And then you can also go into the individual projects and check it. So we for example go into the Implementation project, click show activities, and then same thing — you will see here from 13:30 to 14, I had a team chat with Swing and Sylvia. So for this one, just to reassign it to a different project, click the Implementation one, hit for example Admin Services, and now you’re teaching it all the things that are here and what you worked on — that stuff should actually go to this Data and Benefit project.

And when you have gone through that, hit submit, and now the next time the model will create a prediction for you and create a timesheet, it will take all of that learning into account. So you should only need to do this maybe once or twice or three times, all depending on your project structure.

Hope that’s helpful.

How AutoSheet learns

Timely AutoSheet uses a blend of pattern recognition, historical project mappings, and AI reasoning to generate your timesheet. Every action you take — approving a suggestion, reassigning a project, editing a summary, or creating a manual entry — feeds back into the AI and helps it improve over time.

The more consistently you interact with your suggestions, the smarter AutoSheet becomes at understanding your work patterns.

Tips for faster learning

  • Be consistent: Review and approve your timesheet regularly. The more feedback the AI gets, the faster it improves
  • Use descriptive project and task names: Clear, specific names help the AI map activities to projects more confidently
  • Install the Memory app on all devices: More activity data means better coverage and more accurate suggestions. Download it here
  • Connect your integrations: Calendar events, meetings, and tool usage from integrations like Google Calendar, Teams, and Zoom give AutoSheet richer context
  • Correct rather than dismiss: When a suggestion is wrong, reassign it to the right project instead of dismissing it — corrections are more valuable training signals than deletions

Last updated April 16, 2026