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 BlogBehind the Scenes
So I’ve logged all this time into Freckle… now what?
To help you start the new year right, we wanted to give you a real-world example of how you can use your Freckle data to make sense of your time and improve your business. I have a separate Freckle account for almost everything going on in my life. Working, going to school, and investing in the future is a lot to juggle — and Freckle helps [...]
Thomas Cannon
Freckle ❤️ open source!
At Freckle we’re using a lot of open source projects to provide the best possible service and the most cheerful time tracking application to you. We also extract and share our own open source projects—here’s some of them as a gift back to the community and to you! Zepto.js Zepto.js is our modular drop-in replacement for jQuery, [...]
Thomas Fuchs
A Support Team’s Guide to Better Emails
Have you ever had “just one of those weeks”? When nothing seems to be going your way, and you feel a bit like you’re chasing your own tail just trying to keep up with your day to day activities. Well, last week was “one of those weeks” for the Freckle Team. But thanks to some awesome advice from customer support [...]
Devon Kreider
The Freckle Lounge
Got a question you need answered sooner than later? Have a concern about your Freckle account? Weekdays between 10 am and 5 pm ET visit the Freckle team in the brand new Freckle Lounge! Even if you don’t have an immediate problem, stop in and say ‘Hi’ to us. Get directions to the Freckle Lounge here. Who might you find [...]
Devon Kreider
Invoicing with Freckle: A Comic in 7 Steps
Did you know Freckle does invoicing? **Cuz Freckle absoluuuuutely does invoicing!** All paid account levels have unlimited invoices. (Free users, all you need to do is upgrade to any paid plan to invoice your heart out!) And we’re adding a lot more power to it, too. Wanna get the inside skinny on our customer-driven roadmap? Just keep [...]
Amy Hoy
Woohoo, press coverage!
From the “other people are tooting our horn so now we will re-toot it ourselves, just in case you missed it the first time around” files: Lifehacker! Lifehacker named us one of their Top 10 Underhyped Web Apps. To wit: … Freckle doesn’t require you to learn a new set of rules or input methods to track how you spend [...]
Amy Hoy
Sneak peek at our new timer
Since we launched Freckle, the number one request from our customers has been: I want a timer! Now, there’s a reason Freckle didn’t come with a timer to start with. We didn’t want to build a timer into Freckle for all sorts of reasons: we never manage to use them properly, and even when we remember to start them, we always [...]
Amy Hoy
Improvements across the board
We’ve been working behind the scene on improvements, although we haven’t been crowing about ’em too much. I aim to fix that. ### Solo Plan Chief among the obvious improvements, we added a Solo plan: 1 person with up to 10 projects, for $12 a month. It seems like the number one feedback item we got from our launch: a 5-person [...]
Amy Hoy
What to expect when you’re expecting… to launch your product
It’s two weeks since we launched [freckle](http://letsfreckle.com/) to the public. I know, now, what it feels like to have a small child. Perhaps I am a wee bit melodramatic (some might say “whiny”). Actual parents of small children: please do not assault me or storm my castle with pitchforks. But drama queenliness or not, [...]
Amy Hoy
Calamity howlers & positively selecting with surprise
Welcome to Dramatis Commentatis Theater, Act 1. The crowd is hushed. Four actors in black clothing with black hats stand straight on the darkened stage, head bowed. The spotlight turns to the fellow one from the left. He jerks, suddenly, from quiet stillness to violent motion, ripping off his hat and stomping on it. OMGZ THE PASSWORD FIELD [...]
Amy Hoy