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.
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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How to Land Big Fish Clients with No Cold Calling
Is there anything worse than cold-calling? Not only is it stressful — *cough* I mean… character-building — it doesn’t work for the kinds of prestigious clients you really want. Neither does sending in your résumé, no matter how awesome your cover letter. True, having contacts deep inside the organizations is great — if you’ve [...]
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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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Freckle Time Tracking’s Getting Prettier… and Better!
Quick… how many clicks does it take to find your favorite report, check out a project, check on a team member, add an expense, adjust your timers, or view your billable hours? How many steps does it take to get the business intelligence you need out of Freckle? Too many, if you ask us. And to fix that for ya, we’re giving Freckle a [...]
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Never forget to track time with the Freckle Mac OS X Menubar App
We’ve all been there—you forgot to track time at all or didn’t stop and log that timer you started at the beginning of your work day. Whether you’re excited about a new client, have to finish a project by a deadline or just got distracted by the latest lolcats—tracking time is often the last thing on your mind. It’s [...]
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One click Excel, PDF and CSV from your reports
Did you know that Freckle supports one click downloads of reports, as PDF, CSV and now also as Excel spreadsheet? It couldn’t be simpler, just run a report, set filters, grouping and aggregation options as you need and then click one of these buttons: Boom—your download will start after a few seconds! The file that’s downloaded [...]
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Freckle on your phone
Here’s how you run Freckle on your phone! Note that using the mobile version of Freckle requires that your account uses hashtags. All newer accounts (since April 2013) use hashtags automatically. If you have an older account that hasn’t been migrated yet, please see your help article on migrating to hashtags (it only takes a few [...]
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Find projects quicker with Freckle’s new Timer
Freckle’s Timer has received a facelift and optimizations to be quicker to use and prettier to look at! The main thing that works differently from before is the much improved search. Either click the project search box or type the / shortcut key to start searching (you can also just start typing any letter or number to stat searching [...]
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