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Pulse comes in two flavours that share your Jira worklogs — the Forge app (runs inside Jira) and the browser extension (log from anywhere). Set up either, or both.
The Jira app
Install from the Marketplace
An admin installs Pulse once from the Atlassian Marketplace. Every user in the site then gets their own dashboard, timesheets, and reports — no per-user setup.
Open Pulse in Jira
Find Pulse in the Apps menu. It renders inside Jira and follows your Jira theme automatically.
Log your first time
Press L (or ⌘K → “Log time”), search an issue, type a duration like “1h 30m”, and hit Enter. It lands as a native Jira worklog on the issue itself.
The browser extension
Install the extension
Add Pulse Companion from the Chrome, Edge, or Firefox store (see the Extension page).
Connect your Jira
Create an API token at id.atlassian.com → paste your site URL, email, and token once. It's stored only in your browser.
Log from anywhere
Use the toolbar popup, the right-click menu, the omnibox (“PROJ-1 1h30m note”), or the timer on any Jira issue page.
Guides
Short how-tos for each part of Pulse.
Logging time
Every way to get a worklog into Jira.
- Quick log: press L (or ⌘K → “Log time”), search an issue, type a duration, Enter.
- Smart durations: “1h 30m”, “1.5h”, “90m”, or just “2” all parse. Back-date with the date field.
- Bulk log: paste a standup block (issue key + duration per line) and verify the rows before they submit.
- Templates: save your recurring rows (standup, code review) and log them in one tap.
Timesheets
Fix a whole week without leaving the grid.
- Four views: day, week grid, an hour-by-hour time grid, and a monthly calendar.
- Edit like a spreadsheet: click a cell, type “2h”, Enter. Drag a worklog to another day or resize it.
- Targets already exclude your PTO and holidays, so the “to go” number is honest.
- Submit & lock a week to protect it from accidental edits.
Reports & exports
The numbers a manager asks for.
- Group by issue, project, or day; or a project × day pivot; or estimate-vs-actual with flags.
- Each report is its own menu entry and every view is deep-linkable — bookmark the one you run weekly.
- Export any report to CSV or Excel; print to PDF.
- Save your favourite views to reopen them in one click.
Sprints & teams
See beyond your own hours.
- Per-sprint Say/Do ratio and a velocity trend across recent sprints.
- Team report: a matrix of who logged what, with day-by-day drill-down and a per-task view.
- Scope reports to Just me or a saved team; build teams once and reuse them.
- You only ever see issues you can already browse in Jira.
Extension: meetings & offline
The things a Forge app can’t do.
- Connect Google Calendar or Outlook / Microsoft 365 and turn each meeting into a worklog.
- Log from a GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket PR — Pulse spots the issue key.
- Work offline: worklogs queue locally and sync when Jira is reachable again.
- Connect several Jira sites and switch between them in one window.
Pulse Teams (paid)
The optional manager layer.
- Approvals: a review queue over submitted weeks; reject reopens the member’s week.
- Billing: mark projects billable by rule, roll up revenue, and export a client invoice PDF.
- Capacity: set planned weekly hours and track planned vs logged vs remaining.
- Analytics: cycle time, rework, estimate accuracy, and a custom JQL report builder.
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