You may notice that Toggl navigation layout has changed today.

Browse around and you’ll see that all the features you love about Toggl are still there, simply laid out a bit differently.

Notice, for example, the small Basecamp logo next to the ‘Beta development’ project indicating that this project is integrating with Basecamp for you:

The new design should be even more user-friendly and intuitive. If you have any questions, though, don’t hesitate to contact our Support.

This, along with the My Profile page changes, is another step towards bringing all of Toggl’s different parts that have been developed over time under one unified design. Now only the Reports page layout remains.

We kicked off Fri 13th with a new version of our Android application. You can download it here.

QR code with the link:

The new-and-improved Toggl native app for your iPhone and/or iPad is now available for downloading! You can find it on the iTunes Store yourself or use this direct link to download it from here. Also works with the latest iOS5.

Update (05.01.2012).

After 2 days of instability, we have managed to restore all Toggl functionalities to the norm. Feel free to go back in, try it out and give us feedback yourself! Since we’ve seen the load improving, we can start re-adding some functionalities that we temporarily removed also, including sidebar chart and integrations, so keep an eye out!

So now to explain:

• The root cause for these events was a toxic cocktail of our database hitting its memory limits due to a fast growth that it experienced, and increased traffic which in a most inconvenient way exposed some parts of unoptimized code.
• As this indicates, we clearly had scalability issues. We then worked on optimizing the code, and at the same time upgraded our hardware. Sadly there was not an easy or quick enough way out of the situation, but it has now been sorted and we are now better prepared and have contingency plans for the future, should this ever happen again.
• In general, we recommend using either m.toggl.com, Google Chrome offline extension (http://bit.ly/x7y1S1), or the new Toggl Desktop (http://bit.ly/zjAUMz). These work with much improved offline handling, and can be used for time tracking even in the case of server failure.
• We’re adding similar offline support to Toggl main page in the upcoming months.

Those were nerve-wrecking hours for you, we are sincerely sorry for all of this, and certainly better prepared for similar issues in the future.

For all Pro users, we will add two days of extra usage of Pro features for free to all of you, to somehwat compensate for the two days that you had to deal with troubled Toggl.

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(04.01.2012)

We had major load issues yesterday, which caused Toggl to behave slow and be occasionally unavailable.

The main cause of the issues was the graph/chart on the home page – there was an error in the request for this graph. Unfortunately the existence of this error only emerged yesterday when we had the largest amount of traffic in Toggl’s lifetime, and parallel to that, a very large number of reports were generated.

For the above reason, that chart has temporarily been removed, but will be returned soon.

Due to a considerable increase in the number of Toggl users recently there are also other requests that need optimizing. Also, I admit that we should have coordinated the notifying of our team and users about the load problems more efficiently.

I apologise again for the problems that occurred yesterday. Availablity is a high priority for us and we will continue working towards improving this long-term.

Regular updates on this particular issue are and will continue to be posted in the public forum here: http://support.toggl.com/discussions/questions/386-toggl-difficulties

PS. We released a draft version of 2012 Q1 Toggl Development Roadmap to make Toggl development process a bit more transparent.

You might have already noticed the unique opportunity you now have:

This campaign will last until January 31st and all you have to do is invite a friend who has not used Toggl before to create an account. They will immediately receive $10 on their workspace and you have the chance to also get $10 worth of Pro credits in February*.

Go to the Referrals page in your workspace Settings to take advantage of this great opportunity now!

* Credit will be given according to the Campaign rules    

Happy New Year to everyone!

Toggl Team

The My Profile page has seen an end-of-year redesign. All features work just as before, but there’s an important new feature:

You can now ask Toggl to send you a notification when your timer has been running for more than 8 hours – you can then react if and as necessary. Simply tick the box and be notified!

Best wishes to you all for the remaining days of this year – send 2011 off with a bang!

Toggl team

The much-requested and long-awaited improvement of pulling reports by Clients is finally here. Have a look just below the summary (graph & pie chart) area in Project reports:

• ‘Group by’ determines the data that is shown on the pie chart;
• ‘Show data’ decides the details displayed in the listings below it.

Last, but not least – beta version of the Toggl Desktop for Windows is now out

It features all the same things as the Mac and Linux apps, including:

• idle detection
• keyboard shortcuts
• offline support
• familiar user interface

Beta version of Toggl Desktop for Linux is now officially launched.

It features all the same things as the Mac app, including:

• idle detection
• keyboard shortcuts
• offline support
• familiar user interface

Download the 32-bit or 64-bit versions directly and also check our Knowledge base for further information. Have a go and let us know!

Now only Windows Desktop to go! Good news – it is well under way by now.

Editing projects has changed for the better. When you go to your Settings -> Projects page and open up one of the projects, this is what you will now see:

What we like about the new format:

• Clearer layout  - making editing your project simpler and more user-friendly;
• Sidebar with project activity - shows this week’s work on that particular project, just as the home page shows your total this week’s activity;
• Mark tasks ‘done’ - this helps you to hide them from view, also they are no longer ordered alphabetically, but in the order that you created them;
• Project template system is much more flexible now. You can create multiple templates and choose which one to you use when creating a new project. Additionally, the project list shows you wich ones are set as templates.
• In addition a number of other small tweaks here and there.

Find details on how to edit your projects in our Knowledge Base.