Great news!

Today we launched a brand new version of our Nano timer:

The motivation behind the new Nano was to:

• balance the design of the timer with the new administrative interface;
• give the timer a more professional look;
• make it clearer for first-time users;
• add usability improvements like continuing a past task.

The overall personality of Nano has been preserved. There could be some bugs because the new Nano is still in the beta stage. You can try it out though and let us know how it feels. We’ll make adjustments to it based on your feedback.

Go ahead and try it out – select ‘Nano Nova’ as the default timer on ‘My settings’ page.

Your feedback is highly appreciated!

Great news for all of our Linux, Mac and Windows hackers!

We just released the new version of Toggl Desktop (v2.5) as open source. You can find the code at Launchpad.

The regular update procedure (the new version notification dialog) remains the same, so nothing changes for our users who are not interested in the C++ code. The new version is also available on our web page.

However, the new version brought some changes for our Linux users.

Since the new Toggl Desktop uses Qt4.6 and this is not yet in all the repositories then Linux users must enter a few commands to get the necessary dependencies. Here are the steps:

Ubuntu/Kubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/beta
sudo apt-get update
launch the installer

Debian

Unfortunately Debian repositories do not include the Qt4.6 yet (except the experimental), so Debian users will have to wait until the Qt4.6 is available in their repository.

The 64-bit Linux version will be available tomorrow.

UPDATE (Linux): You can now add Toggl Desktop to your repository sources list and use the native update mechanism:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:official-toggl/ppa
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install toggl-desktop

Cheers,

Toggl Team

A new version of Toggl is launched! It was a busy two weeks and here are the things that got done.

Basecamp integration overhaul. We completely rewrote the whole Basecamp integration. The main goal was simplicity. That is why from now on you’ll find only one button to synchronize with Basecamp instead of 10.

You might want to check out the Basecamp integration FAQ page to find out how this renewed feature exactly works.

New translations. About a week ago we made Toggl translations public so that anybody could translate it to his/her own language or fix/improve the present translations. During that short time a lot got done. Here are the changes that made it to today’s release:

• added Danish (props to nanker)
• added Dutch (props to Frenck and Voogel)
• improved Estonian (props to Alari)
• improved Finnish (props to Tuukka and Ismo Vuorinen)
• improved French (props to stefjose)
• improved Russian (props to Antons Matvejevs, Eugene Samsonov and Mikhael Korneev)

As you can see, there has been massive improvement in the quality and quantity of the translations. Great!

Other. There were also smaller modifications:

• a date range selection box has been added to the “Tasks” page
• CSV export for the weekly report

NB! We are still working on the new version of Toggl Desktop. We had plans to release it today but we hit some obstacles. No worries, we’ll overcome them soon.

Cheers,

Toggl Team

Many of our users have offered help with translating Toggl into their own language or fix existing ones. It has been a bit cumbersome changing translations by email and we decided to make adding new and fixing existing translations a lot easier for our users.

We are now hosting our translations in Launchpad, which enables you to add and modify them. The only prerequisite is a Launchpad account (which is free).

How to help us with having better translations in your own language:

1) Go to Launchpad and create an account if you already don’t have one.

2) Type “Toggl” into to the search box and open the project. (a direct link to the Toggl project)

3) Change/add/modify/update.

Cheers,

Toggl Team

P.S. Good news are coming soon for all you Linux/OSX/Win hackers. We are releasing Toggl Desktop as open source by the end of this January!

We have got much feedback in the last two days about Toggl Desktop not behaving correctly.

If you have experienced difficulties starting/stopping/updating a task or tasks not being saved, try this: right-click on the system tray icon and click “Clear cache”. Then restart the application.

If you still have problems, write us an email to our support address (support at toggl com) or post the issue to our support forum at getsatisfaction.com/toggl.

Toggl Team

We updated the design of the blog to be more similar with the main page.

What do you think?

Cheers,

Toggl Team

We started the year 2010 with a maintenance release.

There were mostly behind-the-scenes fixes and some design adjustments. No new functionality.

At first we planned to reveal the completely rewritten Basecamp integration with this release but we are still working on it. It will be available with the next release in two weeks.

Cheers,

Toggl Team

Hello!

Today we’re launching several changes to Toggl pricing plans.

• Paid plans now have a shorter and mode convenient name – “Pro”, instead of “Premium”
• There is a new plan for small teams. It’s called ‘Small’, it supports teams up to 5 people, and costs $12 per month.
• The monthly fees for larger teams (11 and more team members) have increased. Compared to similar software tools we’re still offering good value for money  (monthly fee is $2-$4 USD per team member, depending on the team size). All our existing paying users will get a 6-month ‘transition period’ with the current price. We will contact all affected teams directly.
• The maximum allowed team size for the free plan is reduced to 5 members. Bigger teams using the free version will have to upgrade to Pro. There is a 3-month ‘transition period’ when existing teams can continue using the free version. We will contact all affected teams directly.

You can check out the new plans on our pricing page.

Solo plans and free plans with teams up to 5 people are not affected by this change.

We’re hard at work to make Toggl better and better as a tool for your daily time tracking activities. We really hope that you approve these changes, and we assure you that this is an one-off change. The free version is here to stay. In any case of questions or comments please contact us directly – support@toggl.com

Toggl Team

Thank you for the attention, trust and support!

We launched a new version today. Here is a list of things done:

New report filter:

We changed the appearance of the filter and raised it above the charts to where it conveys its area of effect better.

New task edit view:

A more pleasant and organized task edit view.

Toggl Desktop v. 2.0.8:

Lately there has been a lot of feedback about Toggl Desktop not synchronizing with the server properly. We have made some fixes and adjustments that should alleviate this problem. To upgrade to the newest version simply close and reopen the application and it will notify you about the new version. The alternative is to download it from the Toggl extras page.

Cheers,

Toggl Team