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 BlogFeatures
Recurring Budgets! (also, cat sweaters)
Budgeting time is not the most exciting concept to discuss—unless it’s qualified by the statements “large sums dedicated to” and “for fulfilling dreams.” Unfortunately, we at Freckle can’t manifest a fairy ATM machine with a penchant for life coaching as your next client or ours for that matter. What [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Timesheet approval and locking entries
You have a team to manage. Maybe it’s only 3 or 4 people. Maybe you’re leading projects in three different departments and have 46 folks that should be logging time in Freckle every day. Regardless of crew size, you need everyone to log their time consistently. You also need to make sure that tags are appropriate for each part [...]
Thomas Fuchs
New Feature: Built-in Suggestions from Previous Invoices
Some weeks it’s hard enough to remember what day of the week it is, let alone more specific and detailed information. Most of us use as many tricks and tools as we can to remember birthdays, phone numbers and events. We sync our calendars with our contacts and set reminders to check our wall full of post-it notes. Passwords, email addresses, [...]
Devon Kreider
Sorting tags, or: The Struggle is Over
If your team uses a lot of tags, then you’ve probably come face to face with, The Struggle. What’s The Struggle? The Struggle is the cousin of the common cold. Always popping up when you least expect it and when you really don’t want it. Picture this: It’s after lunch and you’ve totally hit your stride. [...]
Devon Kreider
New Feature: Restricting Which People Can Create Tags
If you’re an administrator on a large Freckle account, you already know exactly what I’m talking about. Your team accidentally creates new tags all. the. time. Whether it’s a simple mistake like using the #emails tag instead of #email, or something a little more complicated like getting halfway through typing the hashtag [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Week Numbers for European Frecklers
If you’re one of the many European Frecklers out there, you’ve probably asked yourself one or all of these questions about America. Why can’t Americans drive manual cars? Why on Earth doesn’t America use the Metric System? Why is it so hard to get week numbers in my calendar apps? All very valid questions. All deserving [...]
Devon Kreider
Project proliferation? Sync your projects from Basecamp!
Here at Freckle Support HQ, I often get lots of requests for integrations. Whenever I get an integration request, I make note of who asked for the integration, and eventually how many times that integration has been requested. Soooometimes I’ll pad the numbers a bit, if I feel that this integration will help a particular set of customers. [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Windows Rights Activists, Unite!
…or how get Chrome to pin Freckle to your Windows Taskbar! Every group of friends, every team, every family has a token Windows Rights Activist. They’re the person who you turn to with all of your very import Windows questions. Like, “Hypothetically speaking, would Steve Jobs and Bill Gates make a good team on The Amazing Race?” [...]
Devon Kreider
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs