Automatic Time Tracking Software Version History

Our automatic time tracking software is always under constant development. New features are frequently implemented, tested and refined. Below are a list of all version changes to our automatic time tracking software.

Timetrack 5.3.0 (7-Nov-2012)

This version is a minor update. The following minor new features were added:

• Use Drag-and-drop to set category or task.
• Show more information while in the managing dialog of categories, tasks and expenses.
• Restored the old style of creating tracking rules.
• Added a command bar as an alternative for context menu. That is, any available commands for the selected item will be shown without having to mouse right-click.

Timetrack 5.2.0 (19-Oct-2012)

This version is a minor update. The following minor new features were added:

• Upgrade the tracking engine to handle the latest version of web browsers including Windows Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla Firefox 16, Google Chrome 22 and Opera 12.
• New visual design to make the software more user friendly and easy to use.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• The name of the parent category was not display correctly when in edit mode.

Timetrack 5.1.773 (9-Nov-2011)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Fixes a bug in Quick Notes where the window was not properly displayed in multiple displays environment.
• The show/hide setting of Quick Notes is now persistence through Windows restart.
• Quick Notes can now be drag and place at any of the left or right edge of the desktop.
• Quick Notes is now renamed to Note Journal to better reflect its intended usage.

Timetrack 5.1.764 (7-Nov-2011)

This version is a minor update. The following minor new features were added:

• New design for dashboard page.
• Automatic refresh page when selection changed.
• Added web page as a new additional group for report.
• The .vs. group for report is taken out and make as stand-alone selection called pivot-by.
• Added more view columns in report page.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Efficient time spent was not calculated correctly under certain billing status.
• Categories was not properly filtered if it has no sub-category.
• Labor cost should only be calculated for either billable or unbillable hours.

Timetrack 5.0.0 (24-Aug-2011)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Redesign the dashboard and activity page:
• More summary groups in the dashboard.
• Able to label the time spent to a specific category, task or note in the activity page.
• Able to show time data based on a specific user or everyone.
• Added a new timesheet page.
• Added new task, expense and notes group, in addition to the existing category group, to label your time spent.
• Added new billing properties for category, task, expense and notes:
• You can set your time spent as billable, do not bill or no charge.
• Multiple billing rates based on category, task, expense or notes.
• Billing rates using user's hourly billing rates.
• Flat rates.
• In the report page:
• billing & costing are now calculated in real-time. That is, if you change the billing rates of a category, task, expense or note, the billing information will be re-calculated once you refresh the data. Previously, it was re-calculated only if you re-categorized the time data.
• Added a new unbillable column.
• Optimize the display of hierarchical category name.
• Added a new quick notes entry dialog to quickly add new notes. (note: hidden at the lower right corner of your desktop; hover your mouse over the dialog to have it reveal itself)
• Added new categories, tasks, expenses, users and certificates management dialogs.
• Able to generate supplementary certificates to your users if you have purchased multiple users licenses.
• Redesign the import/export workflow. To import time data from your users, you need to: (1) send them a unique supplementary certificates which can be generated from your principal certificate; (2) your users then export and encrypt time data using their individual supplementary certificates; (3) finally, you import and decrypt the time data using your principal certificate.
• For new installation, a default sets of categories, tasks, expenses and tracking rules are added upon startup.
• Digitally sign the Timetrack executable. That is, there will be no more "Unknown Publisher" warning after download.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Another copy of Timetrack can now be run by another local user of the same computer simultaneously.

Timetrack 4.5.602 (26-May-2011)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Fixes a bug where the user details was not save correctly and this result in the billing cost of user not computed correctly.

Timetrack 4.5.585 (4-Apr-2011)

This version is a minor update. The following minor new features were added:

• Export and import of reports from different users on different computers.

Note: the exported file is encrypted.

Timetrack 4.4.570 (30-Mar-2011)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Fixes a bug where multiple report panes were not displayed properly when the category or filter pane were selected.

Timetrack 4.4.555 (23-Mar-2011)

This version is a minor update. The following minor new features were added:

• Daily activity log

Daily activity log show you a timeline of your daily activities in chronological order. Any non-computer activities like phone call will be detected and listed in the log with the duration of your break. You can add this break time as manual work (use right-mouse-click for this option).

Timetrack 4.3.509 (27-Jan-2011)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Open your documents, web-sites and e-mails (see notes below) from within our time tracking software by using a right-mouse-click.

Notes: beside e-mails, other Microsoft Outlook items like contacts, tasks, appointments and notes can also be opened from within our time tracking software.

PS: With the implementation of this powerful feature, you can now start your own contextual management by associating (categorizing) your related documents, e-mails and web-sites to a context (category) and quickly locate and relate information, all from within our time tracking software.

Timetrack 4.0.473 (21-Dec-2010)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Billing & Costing.
• Efficiency index.
• Manual work entry.
• Added new tabulated columns.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Made date and tabulated columns description more descriptive.
• Sorting hierarchical categories.

Timetrack 3.6.451 (12-Dec-2010)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Improve the timing performance of drag-and-drop during category assignment.

Timetrack 3.6.367 (04-Aug-2010)

This version is a minor update. The following minor new features were added:

• Show tooltips for description text that cannot be display in full.
• Show Start and End time.
• Open Internet Domain or Internet Address in default web browser (right-click for this option).
• Copy description text to clipboard (right-click for this option).
• Use ESCAPE key to cancel drag-and-drop during category assignment.

Timetrack 3.5.0 (27-Jul-2010)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Track 64-bits programs.
• Added dashboard which show the top work time for various groups.
• Multiple tabbed pages for reports.
• Filter data using drag-and-drop.
• Show date and time in localized format based on the region and languages settings of users' computers.
• Sort hierarchical data.
• Windows Vista look-and-feel.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Enhancement in the performance of time tracking software.
• Combined both the hierarchical and matrix groups as one single group selection.
• More responsive; allow users to stop lengthy refresh of large data set.
• Re-design the selection of date.

Timetrack 3.0.2 (27-Jul-2008)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Enhanced the performance of the time tracking software.

Timetrack 3.0.1 (10-Jul-2008)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• The version 2.x data has been imported incorrectly. This result in some items having different timing from the original. This fix will patch up the old data.

Timetrack 3.0.0 (01-Jul-2008)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Track your work time while surfing the internet with even more details like internet address and internet domain of visited web sites. No more confusion among same titles from different visited web sites.
• Hierarchical categorization of your work time instead of single-level tagging.
• Categorize your work time automatically using easy-to-create assignment rules or if you prefer, manually assign your work time using drag-and-drop.
• Extreme flexible report customization where you can view all your work time in any hierarchical groups in any order up to your imagination.
• Favorites list for quick access to user-customized report view.
• History list of recently selected customized groups.
• Explorer-style navigation through your hierarchical data.
• Able to purge old data.
• Full Windows Vista compatibility.

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• Improvement in the time tracking software:
• able to detect previously "unknown application".
• prevent background programs from "stealing" your current active program work time.

Timetrack 2.3.0 (15-Jun-2008)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Added another popular time format HHH.N.
• Change the original time format of DD:HH:MM:SS to HHH:MM:SS which is more intuitive. The original 'DD' in format 'DD:HH:MM:SS' represent the number of days and one day unit is equivalent to 24 hours of work time.

Timetrack 2.2.0 (03-Aug-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Track multiple document titles in software likes Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, Microsoft Visual Studio and other software which uses the Multiple-Document-Interface (MDI) to display multiple documents.

Timetrack 2.1.0 (10-Jul-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Allow toggle between absolute time and percentage format.
• Option to hide time entries that are lesser than an user-specified time.

Timetrack 2.0.0 (25-Mar-2007)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Support various informative report views like hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and summary views.
• Intuitive navigating around the tree view and table view.

Timetrack 1.0.0 (15-Mar-2007)

This version is a major update. The following major features were added:

• Flexible tagging rules.
• Display cumulative total at bottom of report view.

Timetrack 0.4.1 (15-Mar-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Fixes a bug that stop Timetrack from running on Windows 2000.

Timetrack 0.4.0 (13-Mar-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Stop tracking when user suspend or hibernate the computer.

Timetrack 0.3.5 (28-Feb-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Allow exporting of data to Comma Separated Values (CSV) text file.

Timetrack 0.3.2 (14-Feb-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Allow tracking to be stop after an user-defined period of non-activity.

Timetrack 0.3.0 (11-Feb-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Allow selection of quick date and date range.
• Show program and document icons for better visual presentation.

Timetrack 0.2.0 (5-Feb-2007)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Auto-save all time statistic for later analysis.
• Organize and sort data for better analysis.
• Explorer style layout.

Timetrack 0.1.0 (2-Jan-2007)

This is a new release.

You can download and try it for free right now!