CARET Capture uses AI to capture your billable activity — both inside CARET Legal and in your Chrome or Edge browser — and turns it into a ready-to-approve list, so you stop losing billable time to delayed or forgotten entries.
Steps to get started
- Enable the Automated Timekeeping browser extension for Chrome or Edge.
- Continue working in CARET Legal as usual — activity capture happens passively in the background.
- At the end of each day (or anytime), open your Automated Timekeeping dashboard to see your captured, unbilled activity.
- Review each entry. CARET's AI has already suggested the matching matter and drafted a professional narrative for you.
Tip: Nothing becomes a time entry until you review and approve it — every suggestion is editable and reversible.
Installing the Extension
- Open this link: Google Chrome Store Listing
- Click Add to Chrome, then confirm by clicking Add extension in the pop-up.
- Pin the extension: click the puzzle-piece icon in Chrome’s toolbar, then the pin icon next to AI Timekeeping so it stays visible.
- Click the extension icon to open it.
Requires Google Chrome on desktop. (Edge support is documented separately.)
Signing In
Sign in with your existing Caret Legal login credentials — the same username and password you use for Caret. Ensure both boxes for “api.read” and “api.write” are checked.
How It Works
- Tracks only approved sites. Activity is captured exclusively on user-approved websites. Everything else you browse is ignored.
- 30-second minimum. Time on a domain must reach 30 seconds before it counts. A domain and its sub-pages count together — e.g. uspto.gov and uspto.gov/filings both contribute to the same 30-second threshold. Anything under 30 seconds is discarded and never sent to Caret.
- Sessions are bundled. Browsing across approved domains within 2 minutes of the previous activity ending is grouped into a single billable activity, so related research isn’t split into dozens of fragments.
- Captures domain names only. The extension records which approved sites you visited - not page content, keystrokes, or what you typed or read.
- Pause anytime. Click Pause in the extension to stop all tracking. While paused, no data is captured at all. Resume when you’re ready.
What’s Captured — and What Isn’t
| Captured | Not captured |
| Approved-site domain names you visit | Page content, text, or documents |
| Duration of activity (30s+ per domain) | Keystrokes or anything you type |
| Sessions on whitelisted sites only | Any activity on non-approved sites |
| Activity while the extension is active | Anything while paused (no data at all) |
Integrating with Microsoft Outlook
We also have the option to authenticate to Graph to allow CARET Legal users to connect directly to their mailbox. Any sent email messages will now show up in CARET Capture as suggested time entries. This includes messages sent from Outlook or even on their mobile device.
Authenticating with Microsoft
Access the CARET Capture dashboard from the CARET Legal site. Clicking the "Integrations" button shows the new “Outlook” option.
NOTE: This is an integration only enabled for MS 365 Outlook and is not a plugin for your Outlook desktop application. MS 365 license is required.
- Click the “Sign in with Microsoft” button to authenticate.
- Sign in or select the appropriate account (if already logged in).
- Success prompt will close automatically after a few seconds.
- Clicking the “Integrations” option again will show the currently connected mailbox and give the option to disconnect the account.
How It Works
- Any new messages sent from that mailbox will show up as suggested time entries in CARET Capture.
- Suggested time entry appears automatically in CARET Capture displayed as “Email for [Recipient’s Email] and Email Correspondence: [Email Subject]."
- Suggested matter assignment list loads automatically. Note: suggestions take time to load and may not appear immediately for the user.