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...
Say hello to INVOICING!
We’re absolutely tickled to announce that Freckle now offers you **invoicing**. Oooh. What can I do with it? You can now create invoices for any project. You can specify a flat rate total (per invoice) or a single hourly rate (per invoice). You can add any tax percentage you need, and specify any currency. You can opt to show no hours, [...]
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We’re refactoring, thanks!
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. > — John Gall
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Say helloooooo to the new timer!
Our number one request for Freckle, ever since we started? A timer. You asked. We answered. And we took movies. Freckle’s got a timer now. We’re still ironing out a few little JavaScript bugs, but it’s almost ready for prime time action. And, in the mean time, it’s available in your Freckle account. You should check [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Hipster Time Tracker, v1: Download & Print
For your printable pleasure, I’m happy to unveil a little goodie we’ve made for freckle time tracking customers… and anyone who has a love for pen & paper. Download PDF (260k) This is just version 1, and we have some other pocketable ideas. You’re so quiet. Whatcha thinkin’? This is not a one-off for us. [...]
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New goodies: Pulse, Punch, & Feeds
One of our goals for Freckle has always been to *help consultants & freelancers figure out their rhythms*. For example, those cases where you might be asking yourself: What days do I do the most work? What days the least? Hey, I worked on 3 projects on Tuesday and felt totally exhausted, but on Thursday I worked *only* on the Acme Widget [...]
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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 [...]
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Ringing in the New Year as small biz honchos, indies, & moonlighters
Yay, it’s that time of year again! That time of year when the year’s almost run out, the time of year to look back on the past 12 months and beat ourselves up for not following through with the starry-eyed resolutions we made to lose weight, earn more money, and be less of a slacker, this time *last* year! Orrrrrr…. not! [...]
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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, [...]
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