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About this Guide

Welcome to the Apollo user guide for version 2.13.0. This user guide is designed to help you use Apollo on any desktop computer for effective timekeeping. Here, you'll find the necessary information to ensure ease-of-use and a comprehensive understanding of Apollo's functionalities.

 

About Apollo

Apollo is a timekeeping software that automatically captures your billable work on your computer, iPhone, and iPad. It works in the background and captures your time spent on Outlook emails and attachments, as well as other systems such as Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Zoom, and many other applications. Importantly, Apollo allows to choose between keeping track of either only your activities or both activities and time. This way, it helps to tailor the application to match your individual timekeeping needs. Afterward, Apollo seamlessly integrates the time and activities into your timekeeping system. Thus, Apollo automates the whole capture and timekeeping process, allowing you to save time on administrative tasks that must be completed daily. Apollo makes your timekeeping effortless and efficient.

Apollo provides you with features you need to automate your timekeeping. With Apollo you can:

  • Fully capture all interactions with client-related emails and attachments. Apollo automatically creates time entries for interactions with client-related emails and attachments on your desktop using Outlook. These entries include an AI-generated narrative as well as a predicted client and matter when there is an available prediction. Moreover, Apollo can include the elapsed time if you select to track duration in addition to activity. Time that was formerly reconstructed and entered manually or simply written off is now billable.
  • Keep your timekeeping habits. Apollo is designed to work with your timekeeping flow, stacking on top of your existing habits, whether you are a contemporaneous timekeeper or reconstruct your time, or fall somewhere in between.
  • Keep track of your time or only activities. It’s your time, your choice — get help tracking the duration of either your time and activities or only your activities, depending on whatever approach of timekeeping you need the most help with automating.
    Note: The time capture functionality referenced in this document is only applicable to you if you have selected to capture time and activities vs. only activities. 
  • Have more accurately captured time and client bills. With the help of Apollo, you remove the administrative drag of manually keeping and entering time, thus saving your time on administrative tasks that must be completed daily.
  • Enhance your productivity. Apollo has been specifically engineered for you as a knowledge worker to help you save time and maximize your productivity by automating the repetitive timekeeping tasks you do every day.
  • Get help when you need it. Our team of experienced professionals ensures that you can always get the help and information you need to keep Apollo working for you.

In addition, Apollo keeps your data secure within your firm’s security perimeter and within your individual timekeeping system. You are always in control of your time with Apollo, and you can review and revise all entries created by Apollo before you decide to submit them.

In addition, Apollo keeps your data secure within your firm’s security perimeter and within your individual timekeeping system. You are always in control of your time with Apollo, allowing you to review and revise all entries created by Apollo before you decide to submit them.

Note: For detailed resources on using Apollo, you can access the Apollo help guide directly through the application. Simply click Help Icon.png (Help) in the Apollo side menu. This navigates you to the Apollo guide on Zendesk where you’ll find comprehensive documentation and resources to enhance your Apollo experience.

 

Accessing Apollo

Depending on how your configurations are set up, you can access Apollo either by providing your email address or by using MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) authorization.

Note: To access predictions, available matter list, and calendar events within Apollo, you must be connected to a VPN or access Apollo via MSAL authorization. Failure to do so may result in limited functionality and restricted access.

To access Apollo:

  1. Open Apollo.
  2. Depending on your access method, follow the appropriate steps below:
    • If accessing via email: Enter the email address you want Apollo to capture, then click Personalize.
  • Figure 1 Personalizing Apollo.png
    • If accessing via MSAL authorization: Click Sign in with Microsoft. You will be redirected to the Microsoft login page. Enter your username and password, then click Sign in.

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  1. Once you are signed in, you can proceed with Apollo's onboarding pages.

Note: If Apollo automatically signs you out due to an issue, sign back in by following the steps outlined above.

Note: To sign out of Apollo, go to Settings, select _icon_sign out.png (Sign out) under your account name, and confirm by clicking Yes in the confirmation window.

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