MrTickTock has a new owner

I'm pleased to announce that MrTickTock has been acquired. 

The new owner is excited to begin working on the platform and is committed to keeping the service running indefinitely. There will be no stoppage in service. The new owner has a solid vision for the next evolution of MrTickTock, and more information will be provided in the coming days.

End of MrTickTock

<UPDATE 27 September 2022>

I'm pleased to announce that MrTickTock has been acquired. 

The new owner is excited to begin working on the platform and is committed to keeping the service running indefinitely. There will be no stoppage in service. The new owner has a solid vision for the next evolution of MrTickTock, and more information will be provided in the coming days.

</UPDATE>

<UPDATE 21 September 2022>

The EOL date has been prolonged to November 17th, but there is a good chance that MrTickTock will stay available longer, maybe forever. 

I'll come up with more information in the coming days. 

</UPDATE>

<UPDATE 14 September 2022>

I am trying to sell MrTickTock on the microacquire.com site. If it is successful, the service will operate as usual, and no EOL will happen.

If there is no buyer, I'll share the code on GitHub and make it free for personal and internal use. 

I'll come up with more information in the coming days. 

</UPDATE>

MrTickTock.com will be discontinued as of November 17th, 2022.

Why?

MrTickTock was created as a need for a lightweight and agile way of tracking time within the company I co-created and worked at. 

At the same time, it became my first publicly offered service that I tried to commercialize. It was a stunning business lesson and a fascinating journey of creating my own product. I learned how important it was to listen to customers and try to engage them, implement innovative features, pay attention to details, keep the cost of maintenance low, work remotely, and many more. 

Since the creation of MrTickTock, I left my company and focused entirely on a new business. The new company, HeroCoders, turned out to be very successful and fast growing. But I committed to it my whole time and even more. 

As a result, the active development of MrTickTock stopped in mid-2016. No new features have appeared since then, and only minor maintenance and bug fixing have happened. 

It could not last forever because SaaS apps need attention. Library and frameworks upgrade, DB maintenance, performance tweaks, UX improvements, and more. 

With great sadness, I admit I have no time to keep the project running. Therefore, MrTickTock will stop working from October 7th, when the current SSL certificate expires. Soon after, the domain and hosting will expire, too, making the service unavailable. 

What will happen to the data?

All data will be destroyed and disappear when MrTickTock shuts down. 

Please use the "Reports" tab => "Show report" button => "Export to..." button functionality to back up all your data if you need it. 

The export size is limited (I had no time to fix/extend it), so you might not be able to export all the data at once. Please divide it into smaller (e.g. monthly) chunks in that case. 

Payments

All payments will be cancelled on Oct 7th. If you don't need MrTickTock access sooner, please make sure to cancel your subscription at "Account" => "Manage subscription" link as presented below. 

No refunds will be made for payments prior to Oct 7th. 

Epilog 

Thank you for being my customer for all those years. Thank you for all the feedback, feature requests, and for creating an iOS app. It was an exciting and memorable journey that had come to an end. 

Cheers,
Jacek Jaroczynski

MrTickTock 3.5 - "report reader" role

MrTickTock 3.5 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This version brings only one but well deserved change requested by many of our customers:

• "Report reader" role introduced
  MrTickTock offers few access levels for its users to satisfy most common needs.
  In this version we have introduced "Report reader" role that gives a user access to all reports but does not allow for wider administrative access nor time reporting.
  
  

 What's next?

In next versions we will focus on internationalization of MrTickTock.

We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 3.4 - security and usability improvements

MrTickTock 3.4 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

Here is what we have added and improved in this version:

• Display absence subcategory name
  Subcategory name is now explicitly displayed in all places across the application. Previously we displayed only "Other" indicating sub-category but without specifying particular name. Improved behaviour is more legible and less confusing.
  
  
  
  
• Assignee picker improvements
  Assignee picker on the task popup is now rendered under the button that triggers the picker and it can be closed with a mouse click anywhere outside the picker.
  
  
  
  

• Last report date fixed
  Last report date in task popup is now correctly calculated. Now it indicates last report of any user and not current one.
  
  
  

• Task name in tooltip
  When task name is trimmed on Tick-Tock page because it is too long, then full task name is isible in the tooltip.
• Invite user improved
  When administrator tries to invite a user who has an account in MrTickTock already, we used to display generic message that email address is already registered. It caused confusion among our customers and they had to contact us directly for precise instructions.
  Now the message clearly says that user being invited must deactivate their account first.
• Security fixes
  We have improved MrTickTock security by fixing few vulnerabilities discovered when performing code reviews and testing.

 What's next?

In next versions we will focus on internationalization of MrTickTock and introduce new role for accessing reports only.

We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 3.3 - assign users and project tracking improved

MrTickTock 3.3 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

Here is what we have added and improved in this version:

• Assign users
  It is now possible to assign users to task right from the task popup.
  That is a quick and convenient way to assign multiple users to task from one place. This action is available only to admin.
  
  
  
• Project tracking
  Project progress bar showing hours worked versus hours estimated has been present in MrTickTock since almost forever (available on project popup).
  Now, it is possible to see progress of projects on customer popup. Only active projects are displayed (with time reported and estimated time set).
  
  
  

What's next?

In next version we will again focus on UX, bugs and usability improvements.

We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 3.2 - security is important

MrTickTock 3.2 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

Here is what we have added and improved in this version:

• New accepted time format
  Speed of time storing is one of our strongest points. Keyboard shortcuts and general UX excellence of the Tick-Tock page is our top priority.
  This time we have added one more option for time format, i.e. [0-9]{4}. It means that we can skip colon when typing full 4 digits entry, e.g. 0230 means 2:30 (two and half hours) and 1000 means 10:00 (exactly ten hours).
  
   
  
• Security improvements
  We pay a lot of attention to security on a daily basis when developing the app. Nevertheless our experience in software development told us that we should do even more.
  Thanks to Salman Khan from dezignburg.com we found few issues in both configuration and application code. Solving them allowed us to move MrTickTock and our users data security to the next level. Now we all can sleep even better :)
   

What's next?

In next version we will again focus on UX, bugs and usability issues and features.

We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 3.1 - improvements and bugfixes

MrTickTock 3.1 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

Here is what we have added and improved in this version:

• Time off approval
  Initially this feature allowed to accept time off requests no older than from last month. Some of our customers reported a need to access older items so here it is:
  
  
  
  
• Keyboard navigation
  Daily view on Tick-Tock page allows to filter tasks. That is a very handy feature if you work on a number of items.
  Now you can use down/up keyboard arrows to move the caret not only between time input fields but also to the task filtering field.
   
• Main page refreshment
  Feature carousel, support page and other minor changes appeared on our website.
  
  

We have also fixed some issues and added UX and performance improvements for the most frequent actions. 

What's next?

In next version we will again focus on UX and bugs.

We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 3.0 - new licensing model

MrTickTock 3.0 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

In this version we have changed licensing model and introduced following UX improvements:

• API who_is_off
  Our absence tracking model evolved for the last months and API needed to be refreshed. Due to compatibility reasons we decided to leave current who_is_off endpoint without a change and add new who_is_off_v2 to reflect the actual model. See more here.
• Email confirmation
  That is quite common that people are providing invalid email addresses during sign-up if they only want to quickly test the service. We want to avoid MrTickTock sending messages to not existing email addresses so every new account will be required to confirm the email address in order to enable notifications. The same applies to everyone who changes email address in the profile.
  Email addresses of existing users and users accepting company invitation will be automatically marked as confirmed for obvious reasons.
• Initial wizard improvement
  That will allow new users to make the first steps more smoothly.

New licensing model

After around six months long experiment with "Evernote" like business model when we have been charging only for Premium account/features, we would like to try traditional approach.

Since now we are offering the service for free to individuals and groups up to 4 active users.
We will charge $3 for every user above that limit.

Why this change? 

Unfortunately we did not gather enough money to sponsor the development of the product without investing more money from our side (what we would like to avoid long term).

How can I help?

If you are an active MrTickTock user and you like the service and number of users actively using the service in your company if grater than 4 then please subscribe and praise our work with some dollars.

If you represent a bigger company with tens of users and think that the service is too expensive then please let us know. We might offer you a discount.

How can I subscribe?

Simply go to your company profile page and hit orange "Buy Now" button:

What's next?

In next version we are going to add more UX improvements to make the service more user friendly and easy to use.
We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.9 - custom absence categories and time off approval

MrTickTock 2.9 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

In this version we have added two most voted features:

• Custom absence sub-categories
  There is a new "Other" category which contains list of customized absence sub-categories. The initial set of the items is: "Paid leave", "Unpaid leave", "Parental leave", "Other" and can be configured from the company Settings page.
  
  

• Time off approval
  We have added new Absences tab containing list of awaiting time off requests. Admin can accept or reject any request. Only "Vacation" and "Other" categories require approval ("Sick leave" and "Public holiday" categories do not).
  Awaiting requests are marked with grey icon across the service (Tick-Tock page, calendar, etc.).
  Time off approval feature is enabled by default and can be disabled from the company Settings page (making the Absences tab invisible).
  
  

As usually this release contains bunch of bug fixes and improvements.

What's next?

In next versions we are going to add several minor improvements to make the service more user friendly and easy to use.
We are also waiting for your suggestions and ideas! Please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.8 - time tracking for restricted and external users

MrTickTock 2.8 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This version brings one major improvement:

• Restricted users
  Number of actions that restricted users can perform is limited to the absolute minimum. Restricted user role is a great solution for external contractors who should work only on assigned tasks and do not see other details like list of projects and customers.
  
  Restricted users are allowed to:
  
• Report time only for assigned tasks (admin is responsible for adding tasks to Tick-Tock view of this user).
• Add standup notes to assigned tasks.
• See standup notes related to assigned task and its project.
• See assigned task details (e.g. list of other users working on the same task).

Restricted users are NOT allowed to:

• Add tasks to Tick-Tock view.
• See Tasks tab.
• Perform any task action (hide, close, reopen, create, etc.).
• See Standup reports for other projects and customers.
• See list of projects or customers.
• See projects or customers details.

Other changes in this version:

• Edit settings of another user is now a Premium feature
  The rationale behind this move is that editing settings of another user is a natural extension of editing timesheet of another user which is already a Premium feature. We have combined them together in order to make the service and our Premium vs Free approach more clear.
• Disable time reporting for past dates is now a Premium feature
  It was supposed to be Premium feature from the beginning as described here.
  
  
  

As usually this release contains bunch of bug fixes and improvements.

What's next?

In next versions we are going to add:

• Vacation requests approval.
• Custom absence types.

Try all of that at mrticktock.com and follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.

If you want to share a feedback please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.7 - improved absence tracking and disabling time tracking

MrTickTock 2.7 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This version brings two major improvements:

• Public holidays
  We have added "Public holiday" option to the list of absence types as requested by our customers. Selecting this option reduces planned workload (number of hours planned for a day, week, month and year) so it works in the same way as "Non-working" option. "Public holiday" option is available in various places of the service (reports, user details, etc.).
  
  
  

• Disable time reporting for past dates
  It was a common problem in our company that people were sometimes late and reported time for the past month or a period we considered closed (in terms of expenses, etc.). The obvious solution to this problem is to close time reporting possibility for such period. It is now possible from the company Settings page or generated report page. This feature will become Premium since next version.
  
  
  
  
  

As usually this release contains bug fixes and improvements.

Important

Since next version (2.8), editing settings of another user will become a Premium feature.

The rationale behind this move is that editing settings of another user is a natural extension of editing timesheet of another user which is already a Premium feature. We want to combine them together and make the service and our Premium vs Free approach more clear.

What's next?

Next versions will bring additional Premium features and UX improvements. We are going to add:

• Vacation requests approval.
• Custom absence types.
• Restricted users role.

That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.

If you want to share a feedback please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.6 - subscription for Premium plan and logo branding

MrTickTock 2.6 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This version brings small but exciting logo branding feature and allows to subscribe to Premium plan.

• Logo branding
  Now you can change the standard MrTickTock logo to the custom one.
  Simply go to company profile and provide your url which points to the image (we do not host it on our servers).
  Please note that logo will be scaled to 100x80 pixels so the best is to provide an image of this size or similar proportions.
  
  
  
  
  

• Premium subscription
  Finally it is possible to subscribe to our Premium account (we have chosen FastSpring based in Santa Barbara, CA as the payment operator).
  Since the release date of version 2.6, i.e. January 24 2014, all accounts start with 30 days of Premium trial period. Read more

As usually we have fixed some some bugs and improved few things to make UX more smooth.

What's next?

Version 2.7 will bring additional Premium features and UX improvements. We are going to add:

• Vacation requests approval.
• Custom absence types.
• Possibility to close month.

That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.

If you want to share a feedback please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock Premium explained

MrTickTock offers two plans: Free and Premium.

Free plan is available for everyone and is not limited by the number of users, projects or tasks. It is fully functional but simply does not offer Premium features.

Premium plan offers additional features listed below. It costs $3 per user within company account (we do not charge for blocked/dismissed users) per month.

Every account starts with 30 days of free Premium plan. After 30 days Premium account is converted into Free account (premium features become disabled) unless customer decides to subscribe to Premium plan.


What are the Premium features?

Following features are available in Premium plan as of current version 2.6:

• Admin can modify user's timesheet
  This feature allows admin to edit user's timesheet and perform actions like:
• add missing time report, 
• mark day off, 
• select tasks for user to work on, etc.
• Admin can control user's permission
  It is possible to reduces privileges of all users across the company with one switch (from the company settings page). This feature allows to block following permissions for user role:
• pop up customer and project details, 
• create task,
• open and close task,
• delete tasks with no time reported or in case user is the only one who reported time, 
• edit task name and description.
• Logo branding
  It is possible to change the standard MrTickTock logo to the custom one (from the company profile page).

Next versions will bring more Premium features:

• Absence requests approval
  As requested by our customers we will add possibility to approve or deny time off requests.
• Custom absence types
  Absence types might depend on the company policy and country. This feature will allow to customize absence categories.
• Close month
  In order to summarize month, bill customers and avoid mistakes we will introduce possibility to disable time reporting capability for a given date and before.

30 days of trial period?

All new and existing accounts start with 30 days of trial period. All Premium features are enabled in that time and become disabled when trial ends (unless the subscription happens).

Please note that above means that MrTickTock account stays fully usable and users can still report time and mark days off, managers can create reports and so on. Our Free account is fully functional. There is absolutely no data loss and no data access loss.

You can find few more details about Premium plan and full list of features on the pricing page.


"Your Premium trial will expire in 30 days"

This message is presented to all existing customers when they first log in to version 2.6.

This message is also presented to all new users when they log in first time at all.

You can expect similar message few days before trial ends and next one right after account loses its Premium status and becomes a Free one.

These messages are pretty and not annoying. They are presented as a small yellow popup which can be closed in a natural way with just one click.

How to subscribe to Premium plan?

That is simple. Just go to your company Profile page, check the price (it depends on the number of active users, we charge $3 per active user) and click the orange "Buy Now" button.

The subscription payment is managed and processed by FastSpring based in Santa Barbara, CA.

Thank you

We would like to thank to all of our existing customers who helped us understand the business better and helped us drive the service with their helpful feedback.

We hope that you will like our Premium features and decide to subscribe. They are really useful for teams. 

If you want to share feedback please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system and follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.


Enjoy,
MrTickTock team
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MrTickTock 2.5.1 released

Hello friends,

We have just released MrTickTock 2.5.1 and published at http://mrticktock.com.

This version brings minor bug fixes and improvements.The most notable is probably Login link from the home page. It stopped redirecting to the application when user was already logged in but displayed Login popup all the time. That was extremely irritating and some of you reported the problem directly to us.
Since version 2.5.1 it works fine again and there is no need to provide credentials if your session is still alive.

There are few more fixes and improvements in order to make your experience more smooth. Enjoy!

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already. This way you can stay on track with MrTickTock new features and releases.

Let us know your feedback - drop a comment below or browse our feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.5 and Premium features

MrTickTock 2.5 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This time we have focused primarily on requested "enterprise" features, i.e. "Allow admin to modify user's timesheet" and "Allow admin to restrict user's privileges".

Another important message is that after a long time of being a totally free service, we have decided to add "Premium" plan.


New features:

• Admin can modify user's timesheet
  It is extremely problematic when user gets sick or goes off for any other reason forgetting her last time report or marking day as off.
  With this feature admin can edit user's timesheet and sort things out.
  It is also useful if you want to prepare an account for a new user.
  
  
  

• Admin can restrict user's privileges
  We have added a global switch which reduces privileges of all users across the company. When the switch is on, users will not be able to delete tasks at all (even tasks without reported time), create task, popup projects and customers details. This way all data can be protected against deletion and project/customer data can stay confident and not available to users.
  Why we did not decide to create another type of user role/level but go for a global switch? The answer is simple: to make your life easier and avoid confusion when you invite new users - "what is the difference between a standard user and a weak user?".
  
  

In addition to the above features, several things have been improved and few bugs fixed in order to make UX more smooth.

MrTickTock goes Premium

Important note: Nothing will change for our existing customers. All the current features will stay free.

We worked very actively on MrTickTock development for a long time and the current state of the service suits our needs very well. Nevertheless we get reports from our customers about missing features and shortcomings. Therefore we think it might be worth to put an effort and continue the development process. Few more requested features and further UX improvements can make MrTickTock even more awesome and satisfy more people.

Software development is costly so in order to fund the further work we decided to add Premium plan with the two "enterprise" features added in current version, i.e. "Allow admin to modify user's timesheet" and "Allow admin to restrict user's privileges". We also plan to add "Vacation request approval" and "Logo branding" to Premium plan in the next release.
These features are dedicated to bigger groups and we believe that some of them will decide to pay for Premium plan.
 
Important note: All Premium features will be available to everyone until we introduce payment solution.

You can read few more details about Premium plan on the pricing page.

What's next?

Version 2.6 will bring additional Premium features and UX improvements. We are going to add:

• Vacation requests approval.
• Logo branding.

That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

Follow us on Twitter if you haven't already.

If you want to share a feedback please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.4 and time ranges

MrTickTock 2.4 has just been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This is relatively small release but contains few interesting changes:

• Time ranges
  Simply put something like 10:30-11:30 into time input field to report two hours and store time span. That feature was requested by our true-blue customer. Enjoy.
  
  

• Now keyword
  If you want to enter time range manually (i.e. provide start and stop time), you can use now keyword in all time input fields. It will be automatically converted into current time:
  
  
  
  
• Custom error popup
  Every error related to time report will now pop up nice and legible reddish balloon. It will make reading error messages much easier. Previously it was necessary to mouse over the red field (it did not work for touch devices):
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Save time button
  On a Day view the standard green Start work button is changed to Save time if anything has been put into time field. It makes it easier to save time with mouse click (pressing Enter still works of course):
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
• Reports fixes
  We introduced non-billable tasks some time ago but due to a bug it was impossible to export report containing non-billable tasks to pdf/html/csv. That is fixed already (thank you Ruben for investigation!):
  
  

There are of course few more bug fixes and improvements in MrTickTock 2.4 to make user experience more smooth.

What's next?

Version 2.5 will bring requested "enterprise" features:

• limit access rights for user role so they won't be able to create and modify tasks
• add possibility to modify users' timesheet by admins.

That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

We publish most recent news via Twitter

If you want to share a feedback please drop a comment below or browse our
feedback system.

Enjoy,
Jacek and MrTickTock team

MrTickTock 2.3 - task management, reporting and time off tracking

MrTickTock 2.3 has been released last Friday and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

We have added several imrovements related to task management and generating reports. As usually there are also bunch of UX and performance fixes.

Here is the list of most important changes:

• Hourly rate
  Do you work for more than one customer on several projects? Each of them has separate contract and hourly price? Store this important information directly in your time tracker and don't mess anything! Hourly rate property for customers, projects and tasks can make your life easier.
  If you outsource part of your work and hire contractors then we have a good news too. Hourly rate property is also available for users:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Not linked tasks
  If you want to quickly create a task which is not linked to any customer or project then it is a matter of a chebkbox and one click. All tasks created this way are grouped within artificial project and customer (Not linked/Not linked):
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Days off marked on time report
  When you generate time report and spot missing values for some users, you may wonder whether they were absent or simply forgot to enter time value. Now it is clearly visible - day off markers you already know are added to the time report:
  
  
  

  

• "0" time values in the report
  If there is no time reported for selected customer or project, you can still make it visible in the report. Default compacted version can expanded with zero time values with one checkbox:
  
  
  
  

• Week view on absence calendar
  If you manage large team then week view may be a better option to preview your team absence. It fits more data so you will not lose anything:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

MrTickTock 2.3 also contains set of other improvements. Here is a short list:

• Customers and Projects sorting is unified across all pages.
• Closed Customers and Projects are not visible by default on the filters making them more clear.
• Exported CSV file is separated by comma by default.
• Terms of Use document has been published.
• Advanced options on the Reports page is collapsed by default to make the page clear.
• and more.

What's next?

Version 2.4 will bring requested "enterprise" features:

• limiting user access rights so it won't be possible to create and modify tasks
• possibility to modify users' timesheet by admins.

That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

We publish most recent news via Twitter

If you want to praise us, tell off or share feedback then drop a comment below or browse our 
feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

Project condition tracking and billing with MrTickTock 2.2

MrTickTock 2.2 has been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This time we have added couple of features to help teams track progress of their projects and improve billing process.
We have also focused on several other improvements (UX and performance) for small and larger teams.

Here is the list of most important changes:

• Billable and non-billable tasks
  If you don't want to bill your customers for time spent on internal or not related activities then non-billable tasks are the right choice.
  All tasks are billable by default and can be marked as non-billable on the task details popup:
  
  
  
• Estimated time and progress bar for tasks
  Estimated time and nice visual progress bar for projects appeared in MrTickTock few months ago. Our customers loved it and asked the same for tasks. Here is how it looks like:
  
  
  
  
• Quick project time activity preview
  Details popups for Customers, Projects and Tasks contain Users involved in the last month section. We have added quick preview of time worked for every listed user (feature requested by our customers):
  
  

• Project start/end date
  Details popups for Customers, Projects and Tasks now contain First time report and Last time report data. This is a great indicator of when activity started for the Customer, Project or Task and when it has finished.
  
  
  

• Keyword "now"
  If you use time slots feature and report or modify time ranges using Start/Finish time input fields then you can simply type "now" keyword into these fields - it will be automatically converted into current time. You don't have to look at your watch and type the actual time into MrTickTock any more .
  
  
  
  
• Hide unused tasks
  One of MrTickTock features is to show on Tick-Tock page all tasks which are hidden but have time reported in the current month. It allows to quickly preview what we worked on and is extremely useful in case of decent amount of tasks.
  It appeared that some of our customers create bunch of short tasks every day. It results in having tens of tasks on the main Tick-Tock view and makes it very cluttered.
  Now it is possible to hide/show all such tasks with one click of the collapse/expand arrow:
  
  
  
• Tasks page performance
  Some companies using MrTickTock are creating tasks very actively and have thousands of them in open state. We have improved Tasks page performance so it works well with such enormous bunch of data.

MrTickTock 2.2 also contains set of other improvements. Here is a short list:

• Absence calendar works well with large number of entries (absent users).
• More AJAX and fewer reloads on Tick-Tock page.
• Edit task name UX improved in various places.
• Show report button in Project/Customer/Task details popup.
• Allow to change company name on the company profile page.
• Close Task action makes task hidden automatically.
• More balloon hints for beginners.
• and many more!

What's next?

Version 2.3 will bring some additional billing features. We will also go through the list of features requested by our customers.

That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

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Enjoy,
MrTickTock team

Time reporting for lawyers and raw data export - MrTickTock 2.1

MrTickTock 2.1 has been released and published at http://mrticktock.com.

What's new?

This is again significant release. We have added support for decimal values method used by law firms and highly voted raw data export feature. We have also published json API.

Here is the list of most important changes:

• Time tracking for lawyers
  Most attorneys bill in tenth of an hour, which is 6 minute increments. We have added support for that approach and it is possible to generate time report based on most popular 6 or 15 minute intervals. It is also possible to set minimum number of intervals:
  
  

• Raw data export
  Time reports available in MrTickTock are handy and quite powerful but some of you still needs more. It is because your business grows, your customers want more fancy reports or simply because of your habits from the previous time keeping system. It is impossible to support all possible ways of generating output so raw CSV report has been added. The exported data can pushed into other system (e.g. Excel) in order to produce fancy graphs or plots:
  
  

• Tasks filtering on the Tick-Tock page
  Some of you work on a number of tasks simultaneously. No matter whether you are a project manager, super hero who can solve tens of issues a day or your tasks are simply short in terms of time. If your Tick-Tock page is full of tasks it is not very easy to spot the right one in a second. Filtering is an answer to this problem. It is available on the day view only but if you like it and want to have the same on the week view then just let us know. 
  
  

• Progress bar on the Standup page
  Do you work with a team and read daily reports on the Standup page? Are you a manager and want to keep an eye on how much time your team members report? We have a good news for you. We have added a nice visual progress bar for every user:
  
  
  
  
  
• Long task names
  Some users prefer long and descriptive task names over the short acronyms or single worded names. More, some use full sentence to name a task.
  We have increased task name length limit from 50 to 100 characters and fixed how it is displayed across the application. If you need more than 100 characters you can use description.
  
  
• Public API
  Are you a geek? Do you like MrTickTock but miss some integration? Now you can access and manipulate your data with simple https calls. Read more how to build your own extension.
  The first third-party integration is already there - an iPhone app. Check out how it looks like on the features page. Source code is available.

MrTickTock 2.1 contains also bunch of other new things: blocked users improvements, timezone detected and set automatically for new users, users popups and Users page improvements, click-able links in descriptions, improved security and much more.

What's next?

Version 2.2 will focus on performance. It will be dedicated for users with big number of tasks and other data.

We will also make first step towards invoicing and add support for billable and non billable tasks.

We will also allow to reduce user role permissions so they will be able to report time but not create tasks nor see other data. That's a feature asked by our customers.


That's all for today friends. Try all of that at mrticktock.com.

We also publish most recent news via Twitter

If you want to praise us, tell off or share feedback then drop a comment here or browse our 
feedback system.

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team