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...
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Freckle Timers are in Sync
The Freckle Timers may not have the dance moves that the 90’s boy band N’Sync did, but they’re so in sync that they probably could form their own band. Timer Band Members: Freckle Web Timer (Old Granddad) The Freckle Menubar Timer (The New Kid) The Freckle Mobile Timer (Mini-T) All of the Freckle Timers are nicely synced [...]
Devon Kreider
The Freckle Chatroom, Come Check it Out!
Last month the Freckle chatroom got a bit of a make-over, and I think you’re really going to like the new look. Now you can find the Freckle chatroom on any page in your Freckle account and on every page on the Freckle website. No directions needed! Just click the pink “Help & Support” tab in the bottom right hand corner. [...]
Devon Kreider
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!
Thomas Fuchs
Import Data like a Boss (or an Account Owner)
Freckle Administrators rejoice! Gone are the days when the Account Owners had all of the power. In the past, the Freckle Account Owner was the only person on the team who had access to a number of fun hidden gems within Freckle. upgrading/downgrading the account billing info account wide settings importing data Well not anymore. 😀 Now [...]
Devon Kreider
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Heartbleed and Freckle
tl;dr Freckle was patched on Monday within hours of public knowledge of this security problem. We recommend that you change your password and API token. This Monday (April 7, 2014) afternoon (ET) the Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0160) was made public. It is a very serious security problem with the way web servers (like Freckle) handle encrypted [...]
Thomas Fuchs