Saturday, March 12, 2011

Simple web based time tracking with MrTickTock 1.0

MrTickTock 1.0 has been released. After 2 months of coding we moved from the beta to final version. Actually it is a new version which contains much more improvements and new features than fixes.

What's new?

We improved UX significantly, mostly on the time sheet page where users spend most of the time:

  • It has a new layout with highlighted current day.
  • We use AJAX there to make interaction with the page very natural. Time entries are saved automatically so there is no need for Save button and no chance to loose unsaved time entries.
  • Changed and recalculated values on the page are nicely highlighted with yellow and slowly faded to their original color so you will not miss them.
  • Shortcut keys allow to go from day to day and from task to task in an easy way. You can also jump to the current day and move week forward and backward quickly.

Task Manager has been also significantly improved. It is much easier now to manage customers, projects and tasks.

We have a totally new home page for MrTickTock. It contains our latest tweets and brief overview of the project. More detailed description is available on the features page. You can find there not only list of the main features but also information on the coming stuff.

Version 1.0 contains several other improvements which you may like. In order to get the full list of changes you can visit our JIRA installation or simply take a look how new MrTickTock looks in real at http://mrticktock.com.

What's next?

The next release will bring vacation tracking (possibly integrated with Google Calendar), gravatar integration, reminder emails and few other improvements. The release of MrTickTock 1.1 is scheduled for the middle of April.

Version 1.2 will bring additional improvements on the time sheet page, mobile view and possibility to track time with start and stop buttons (asked by few customers).
Another important feature will be a remote stand-up facility. It will allow users to add a public note to every time report and share that information as a SCRUM stand-up to their peers and customers. We want to make MrTickTock much more usable than just simple time tracker. We would love to support agile practices and help people conduct their business.
Version 1.2 should be available at the beginning of June.

Version 1.3 will focus on Reports.

You can check the roadmap and backlog at our JIRA.

We publish most recent news via Twitter

Enjoy,
MrTickTock team