The Scenario
You're a consultant wrapping up two weeks of project work. Your firm bills by the hour, and the client contract requires every hour logged against a Dart task ID by Friday. You've been keeping a running Excel-style timesheet in a Google Sheet — 60 rows, each one a task ID, a start time, an end time, and a short note about what was done.
Dart's time tracking is per-task. Each entry is its own record. That means 60 individual log entries to create.
The bad version:
- Open Dart, search for the first task ID, click into time tracking, enter the start time, the end time, add the note, save. Close the panel.
- Find the next task ID. Repeat.
- Around entry 20, realize you've been entering times in 12-hour format but Dart expects 24-hour, so several entries are off by 12 hours.
The client report is due Friday. Forty entries in and you've already burned an hour on data entry for work you already did. That's a bad trade.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your timesheet and sends each entry to Dart's time tracking — task by task, in one operation, without you opening a single task panel.
For each row in my sheet, use Dart to add a time tracking entry to the task ID in column A — start time in column B, end time in column C, notes in column D
What You Get
- 60 time tracking entries created in Dart, one per row
- Each entry attached to the correct task ID with the exact start time, end time, and note from your sheet
- Any row where the task ID doesn't exist in Dart surfaced as a warning in a new column, not silently skipped
- Your Dart project's time log reflecting actual hours worked, ready for the client report
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Start and end times are in 12-hour format but Dart expects 24-hour
For each row in my sheet, convert the start time in column B and end time in column C from 12-hour to 24-hour format, then add a time tracking entry to the Dart task ID in column A with the note from column D
Some rows have the same task ID logged multiple times across different days
Log all time entries from my sheet into Dart — task ID in column A, start in column B, end in column C, notes in column D — treat each row as a separate entry even if the task ID repeats
Notes column has some blanks — use a default note for those rows
For each row in my timesheet, add a time tracking entry to the Dart task in column A — start time in column B, end time in column C — if column D is blank, use 'General project work' as the note
Kill-chain: validate task IDs, convert time formats, log all entries, flag failures
For each row in the 'Timesheet' tab: check that the task ID in column A exists in Dart, convert column B and C times from 12-hour to 24-hour format, add the time tracking entry with the note from column D, and write 'Logged' or the error reason into column E
One prompt validates, converts, logs, and reports back. The Friday deadline stays reachable.
Try It
Open your project timesheet and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI, then ask it to push the entries into Dart's time tracking in one shot. When you're done logging time, see how to export a task status report to a sheet or post QA comments to tasks in bulk. The full Dart integration guide covers all seven workflows.