In DoTally, you turn App Sharing on or off from the App Sharing card at the bottom of the left sidebar on my.dotally.app. It’s off by default, only you can change it, and the change applies straight away.

Before you start

App Sharing only matters when you’re part of a team workspace. It decides one thing: whether that workspace’s Administrator and Managers can see which apps you used and your window and tab titles. The rest of your logged day is visible to them either way: your timeline, breaks and their reasons, totals, health signals and manual time entries, plus your scores on Team Professional. See What can my manager see?.

Turn App Sharing on or off

Sign in to the DoTally dashboard at my.dotally.app.
Find the App Sharing card at the bottom of the left sidebar. It shows ON or OFF.
Select the edit icon on the card. If the sidebar is collapsed, select the App Sharing icon instead.
In the App Sharing window, select ON or OFF. The change is saved as soon as you select it. If turning it off will email anyone, the window tells you first.
Select Close.

What happens next

With App Sharing on, your workspace’s Administrator and Managers can also see the names and icons of the apps you used, your window and tab titles, when you used each app and, on Team Professional, how each one was classified.
With App Sharing off, they still see your whole day, but with no app names, app icons or window and tab titles, and they can’t open your App Usage page.
It covers your whole history. Turning App Sharing on shows app detail for days you’ve already logged, not only from today. Turning it off hides it again, past days included.
Turning it off sends your Administrator and Managers an email. The Activity Stream on their Team Overview also shows since when it’s been off. Turning it on sends no message, and DoTally keeps no history of your changes.

You can switch it as often as you like. You can also delete any logged app from your own history, whichever way App Sharing is set.

If your manager asks you to turn it on

Your Administrator and Managers can send you a reminder, at most one every 24 hours, but they can’t change the setting for you. A reminder opens a Turn on App Sharing window the next time you use the dashboard:

Select Enable Sharing to turn it on.
Select Decline to keep it off. Declining doesn’t email anyone.

Either answer is your choice. Your workspace’s terms say no one should be penalised for keeping App Sharing off or turning it off.

Available on: both plans, for every role.

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Still stuck? Email awesome@dotally.app.

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