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Yes, you need to keep the task open for the timer to continue to run. You would want it to keep running in the background? It seems like it would be easy to forget about if it's implemented that way...

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Yeah. That why I use TaskCoach (desktop app) so the timer icon is always shown in my notification area. But you can use the dashboard for this.

A year back I had started building a web based time tracker using HTML5 background workers and stuff. But I lost motivation. :(

Why not just have a start/stop toggle and record time segments so you don't have to worry about a "running" timer?

If it kept running, I'd think you'd want to have a "global" timer widget/area that is always displayed, on every page, if a timer is running.

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