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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Never Loose Track of Your Time Zone Again
Time zones can be a tricky thing for freelancers today. Forget about doing time zone math in your head, it’ll make you dizzy. Not to fear! The Freckle Quick Entry box is here for you! When you’re traveling, Freckle is time traveling. There’s no need to adjust what time zone you’re in, because Freckle does the work for you. When [...]
Devon Kreider
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
No More Scrolling Through Months-the Quick Date Calendar!
Tired of scrolling through months and months to find the right date? Now you don’t have to! With the Quick Select Calendar you can easily choose the dates you need by typing them in the calendar. The Quick Select Calendar is auto-focused when you open any calendar in Freckle, so all you need to do is start typing. Just press enter [...]
Devon Kreider
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
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 [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Love Freckle’s pulse? Say hello to the mini-pulse on your dashboard
Ever wanted a quick overview of what you’ve been doing so far this week? Say hello to our new mini-pulse, right on your Freckle dashboard. Hover of any of the circles to see details, and click them to hop to a detailed report of your work on that day. It’s like a little Seinfeld chain, but better! (And certainly more colorful!) [...]
Thomas Fuchs
Freckle Focus Interview with Shawn Adrian of Nerdburn
[Shawn Adrian](http://blog.nerdburn.com/ “Nerdburn”) knows a thing or two about time–specifically, about saving a lot of it for himself and other businesses who work with quotes and estimates. The co-founder of the [QuoteRobot](http://quoterobot.com/ “QuoteRobot”) application, which trims hours off of the quote-generation [...]
Amy Hoy