Copy Last Week's Timesheet: The Feature That Saves 10 Minutes Every Monday

If you’re a consultant, here’s what your typical month looks like: four weeks that are 80% identical. Same clients. Same projects. Same rough allocation of hours. Monday through Friday on Acme, two hours a day on internal work, half a day on Brightside every Thursday.

And yet, every Monday morning, you open your time tracker and re-enter the same projects, the same clients, the same structure from scratch. Then you tweak the hours and notes to match what actually happened. The setup takes 10 minutes. The tweaks take 2. Something is backwards.

Harvest figured this out early. Their “copy last week” button has been saving consultants time for years. We’re not too proud to admit when a competitor got something right. So we built the same thing.

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One Button

Switch to Week view on the Time Tracking page. If last week has entries and the current week is empty (or light), you’ll see a “Copy Last Week” button next to “Add Entry.”

Click it. Miru copies every entry from the previous week into the current week, matched to the same days. Last Monday’s entries land on this Monday. Last Thursday’s entries land on this Thursday. Projects, clients, and notes all carry over.

Now edit. Change the note on Tuesday’s Acme entry from “Sprint planning” to “Sprint review.” Adjust Thursday’s Brightside hours from 4h to 3h because the meeting ran short. Delete Friday’s internal entry because you took the day off. Two minutes of editing instead of ten minutes of data entry.

The entries are created as drafts. Nothing is billed or locked until you’re ready. Copy, tweak, move on. That’s the Monday morning workflow.

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Quick Entry Shortcuts

Copy Last Week handles the macro pattern. But sometimes you just need to log one entry fast.

The “Add Entry” button opens a modern entry form with smart defaults: today’s date is pre-filled, your most recent project is suggested, and the duration field accepts natural formats — 2h, 90m, 1.5h. Type, tab, type, tab, save. Keyboard-friendly for people who don’t want to reach for the mouse.

If you’re doing the same thing as yesterday, the previous entry’s project and client carry forward as suggestions. Accept the defaults, update the note, save. Under five seconds for a repeat entry.

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The Boring Math

Ten minutes saved every Monday. Fifty-two Mondays a year. That’s 8.7 hours per person per year spent re-entering the same data into a time tracker. For a 10-person team, that’s nearly 87 hours — more than two full work weeks — spent on the busywork of describing work you already did last week.

Copy Last Week eliminates most of that. It’s not a revolutionary feature. It’s a practical one. The kind of small thing that makes you wonder why it wasn’t there from the start.

It’s there now. Switch to Week view and try it this Monday.