Monotime vs Notion
In Notion, time tracking is something you build: the database, the formulas, the rollups — and you fix them when they break. In Monotime it’s built. Log an hour and you see what it earned, for which client, and whether it’s been paid.
| Notion | Monotime |
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| price | Free for one person. Plus is $10 a month paid yearly ($12 monthly) — €9.50 and €11.50 in euros. | From €10 a month, after 14 days free. No card to try it. |
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| logging time | No timer of its own: a template’s button stamps the time, or Toggl’s browser extension does. | A timer or a line, in the browser on any device. Google Calendar events turn into entries for you to confirm. |
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| what it earned | A formula you write — hours times rate — and rollups for the totals. | Worked out on every entry from the project’s rate, the client’s or your default — and added up per client and month. |
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| who’s paid | A checkbox or a status you keep up to date. | Not paid, invoiced, paid — and how many days late, counted from each client’s payment terms. |
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| fixed prices | Only if you build it: a property and a formula. | The rate your hours really earn, beside the one you planned. Retainers count the hours against what’s included. |
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| charts | One chart on the free plan. | Reports: what you earned over time, and a period against the one before. |
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| making it yours | Anything: any property, any view, notes and docs right beside the hours. | Less so. It does one job: your hours, what they earned and who’s paid. |
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The rollups, without the formulas.
What the week and the month earned, and how much of the month is paid, invoiced or still open — nothing to write, nothing to fix.
Your work lives in Notion, and the formulas hold up? Keep it.
Notes, briefs and hours on one page are worth a lot. If your database already tells you what you earned and who’s paid, there’s little to gain.
Bring your Notion hours.
In Notion: ••• → Export → Markdown & CSV, then unzip it. If there are 2 CSVs, the one ending in _all has every column. Monotime needs the hours as a number — if yours are a date range, add a formula first: dateBetween(dateEnd(prop("Date")), dateStart(prop("Date")), "minutes") / 60.