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.
Lookin’ back: the dashboard mini-pulse
You probably love the mini-pulse on your Freckle dashboard, which shows you which days you’ve worked on (and how much and on what) for the current week. We’ve added a new feature to “look back” on the last 7 days of work—so you can quickly see if you have some more time tracking left to do for last week as well: In [...]
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4 Years of Freckle… 31 Days of Freelancer Gifts!
We can’t believe it, but we launched Freckle 4 years ago this month. It’s been one helluva crazy time. A lot has changed! And a lot hasn’t changed at all, too: Our #1 mission is still to help you kick more ass in your business, whether you’re a solo freelancer or consulting agency. That’s why we’ve grown [...]
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Take notes in the Freckle timer—introducing the scratchpad!
Ever wanted to scribble down somes notes about what you’re working on while a timer is running? Now you can, directly in the Timer window! Once you start a timer, this convenient notes area will automatically open—just click it and take all the notes you want. Each project has its own scratchpad! No need to click save—notes are automatically [...]
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Run reports across multiple projects!
Ever wanted to run a report for a handful of projects? Or a report for all projects of a specific client? Now it’s easy to do that, with our new project selector in the green quick report box. The Quick Report Box is available on any Freckle page. Just click the green tab and you’re in business, or rather, in reports. Just click [...]
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Retina & Performance updates!
Do you have one of those shiny new MacBook Pro’s with a Retina screen? Freckle is now almost 100% retinafied, meaning that it will literally look sharper on high-density displays. (This is not only the case for the new MacBook Pro’s, but you’ll also see the shiny on other devices, like iPads!) If you’re on a normal [...]
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Get Ready to Love Running Reports
If you love running reports but wish you could see an even better breakdown of your time, then we’ve got a treat for you! With the new report filters you can easily separate and aggregate your time entries, as well as see exactly where your team has been logging hours. Now you can break your reports down by: Time (by day, week, month [...]
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Need to fancy up that invoice? Introducing custom HTML headers!
Want to put your logo on your invoice? Change the fonts? Add some color to it? Now you can! We just launched a small yet powerful new feature in Freckle that allows you to add custom HTML to any invoice. For example, here’s what the default styling of an invoice looks like: And here’s the same invoice with a tiny amount of custom [...]
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More than meets the eye—the Quick Entry box!
Here’s how the Quick Entry box makes clever assumptions about your entries so you can save yourself typing and hair-pulling: Enter “15”, and it logs 15 minutes. Enter “1”, and it logs 1 hour. Enter “1 day”, and it logs 8 hours. You can override the Quick Entry assumptions by using “h” and “m” to indicate hours and [...]
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How to change billing increments
Freckle has industry-standard 15-minute rounding out of the box (so to speak). That means if you enter 3, 5, or 8 minutes, all will be rounded up to 15 minutes. This reflects the actual cost of changing from one very short task to another, and correctly compensating you for many small interruptions! That’s why it’s a standard practice [...]
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