Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas FuchsYou run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
Time Tracking & Productivity Blog
Thomas’ work on Prototype.js, Zepto.js and Micro.js has made him a certified JavaScript Guru. Before founding Freckle, Thomas was consulting with some of the world’s best known companies on their craziest interactive JavaScript needs. A Ruby on Rails core alumni, he is passionate about creating the best user interface experience possible and penned the Scriptaculous JavaScript UI library to share the love, counting sites like Apple.com and Nasa.gov among its users. Thomas’ master plan: work toward a more delicious web using open source goodness.
3 Ways To Get Your Team To Track Time
You run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious resources—you rely on accurate and timely time tracking: who did what when, and for how long. In the minds of your team members time tracking probably is far down the list of what they think is important. [...]
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How to ship software, the easy way
Do you think you have what it takes to ship software? I’ll let you in on a secret: it’s not easy and takes a lot of effort—but it’s all skills that you can learn. Here’s my checklist for getting software projects done, in a way that they actually ship and actually work well: To ship software, first learn how to design things for [...]
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Stack Overflow is down. What now?
The Internet is awesome. Information is right at your fingertips. Always-available help from people all over the world is one of humanity’s dreams come true. I’m not sure if the philosophers of antiquity included copy and pasting of code snippets in this dream, but hey, it’s a fact of daily developer life. Copy and pasting is awesome, [...]
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To #tag or not to #tag
The other day, one of our two amazing developers Thomas “Tagging It” Cannon wrote an advice email. As much as I wanted the email to be about men’s fashion (he’s a sharp dresser), alas it was a solid bit of guidance for an IT team to get the most out of Freckle. In his defence, the email was a lot more useful (at least [...]
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Do you love to pivot? Freckle supports Excel 2016!
If you love pivot tables or can’t get enough bar charts, Freckle now supports generating Excel files for Microsoft Office 2016. While it’s not out for Windows yet, Mac users can already revel in new features like real-time co-authoring and cloud-based files. Long story short—Freckle supports one-click generation of files for [...]
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Keep your coworkers in the loop and quicker project assignments with Freckle’s new permissions!
Many customers have written in to ask for more power when it comes to permissions/controls for their team’s time tracking. In the past, you could set up your entire team as the extremely strict “Freelancers” permissions setting—and they could only see their own time. Like they were working all alone. Sending their time [...]
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10 little things Freckle does to help you get stuff done faster
Do you like tracking your time? Chances are that you don’t—it’s a chore, necessary to keep tabs on projects and to get paid. That’s why you don’t want to spend extra time in your time tracking tool. Freckle tries to help minimize the amount of effort that you have to spend completing tasks—software should help you [...]
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New pay-per-seat pricing launches November 28
tl;dr If you have an existing Freckle account, nothing changes for you, except if you choose to opt-in to our new pricing structure by switching to one of the new per-seat Freckle subscription plans. Later this November, to make it easier for you to choose a plan and grow your Team with Freckle, we’ll introduce an all new-pricing structure. [...]
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No More Mysteries with Entry History
Would you believe me if I told you that Freckle was making it even easier to see the who, what, where, and when of your team’s time? You might say, Devon, it sounds like you’re trying out for the lead in an infomercial. But, after that you’d definitely say, Are you serious? How can Freckle tell me even more about my team’s [...]
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Hello OS X Yosemite Public Beta!
We love our Macs here at Freckle—that’s why the Freckle Mac App is now fully compatible with the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Public Beta, and works and looks great, even with the new dark menus mode! See you on the final version in this fall!
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