← Back to Blog

Export your work logs for Obsidian, Notion, or AI

March 2026 · 5 min read

Your time logs are more than billing data. They're a record of what you worked on, when, and why. The right export turns them into material you can search, organize, and learn from.

Tympo offers three export formats, each designed for a different workflow. Here's how to use them.

1. CSV export — for spreadsheets and accounting

The CSV export gives you one row per time entry with columns for date, client, project, task, notes, duration, start time, end time, and tags. Open it in Excel, Google Sheets, or import it into your accounting software.

This is your go-to for billing, tax records, or any situation where you need structured data. Filter by client, sum by project, pivot by month — all the standard spreadsheet operations work cleanly.

2. Formatted notes — for knowledge bases

The formatted export produces a markdown file organized by date, then by client. Each entry includes the task, duration, and your notes. It looks like this:

## Monday, March 24

### Northwind Corp — Website Redesign
**Update landing page** (2h 30m)
Reviewed the new mockups from the design team
and started implementing the hero section. Need to
confirm the CTA copy with the client.

### Maple Studio — App Development
**Fix checkout bug** (1h 15m)
Fixed the date formatting bug in the checkout flow.
Deployed to staging for QA review.

This format is designed to paste directly into Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, or any markdown-based note system. Create a weekly note, paste the export, and your work log becomes part of your personal knowledge base — searchable, linkable, and permanent.

Obsidian workflow

1. Open Tympo → Reports → select the week
2. Click "Notes export"
3. In Obsidian, create a new note: Work Log — Week 13.md
4. Paste the export
5. Add links to related project notes using [[double brackets]]

Over time, you build a complete archive of what you worked on, fully integrated with the rest of your notes.

Notion workflow

1. Export from Tympo as formatted notes
2. In Notion, create a new page in your Work Logs database
3. Paste as markdown — Notion converts it automatically
4. Add properties: week number, total hours, clients involved

3. Anonymized export — for AI processing

This is the export that solves a problem most trackers don't even acknowledge.

You want to use AI to organize your work logs. Maybe you want ChatGPT to summarize your week, Claude to categorize your tasks by type, or a local LLM to extract action items from your notes. But your logs contain client names, project codes, and sometimes confidential details.

Tympo's anonymized export replaces all client names with generic aliases:

## Monday, March 24

### Client A — Project Alpha
**Update landing page** (2h 30m)
Reviewed the new mockups and started implementing
the hero section. Need to confirm CTA copy.

### Client B — Project Beta
**Fix checkout bug** (1h 15m)
Fixed the date formatting bug in the checkout flow.

The structure, notes, durations, and task names stay intact. Only the identifying information is replaced. You can paste this into any AI tool without worrying about NDA violations or data leaks.

Example: AI-powered weekly summary

Export your anonymized notes, then paste them into ChatGPT or Claude with a prompt like:

Here are my work logs for this week. Please:
1. Summarize what I accomplished per client
2. List any open items or follow-ups mentioned
3. Estimate what percentage of my time was
   meetings vs. development vs. admin

You get a clean weekly summary without exposing a single client name.

Example: Obsidian with AI tagging

Export anonymized notes, process with AI to add tags and categories, then replace the aliases back with real names before pasting into Obsidian. The AI never sees your client data, but you get the benefit of intelligent organization.

How to export

1. Go to Reports in Tympo
2. Select your date range (this week, last month, custom range)
3. Scroll to the export section at the bottom
4. Choose: CSV, Notes, or Anonymized
5. The file downloads immediately

Export is available on the Pro plan. Every new account gets a 7-day Pro trial so you can test all three formats.