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.

You’re all welcome to test out our new Toggl Desktop!

It features:

• idle detection,
• keyboard shortcuts,
• offline support,
• similar user interface as Toggl web

The first fully featured version is available on Mac only, but Windows and Linux versions are following soon. Read more in our Knowledge Base.

Please note that this is a beta version of the new Desktop and we appreciate all feedback as always!

As promised for some time, the .xls export format of the Time Entries’ report that used to be quite limited has now been updated.

The new format has all the expected fields in it. Also notice that:

• New columns include Tasks and Dates.
• You can export your time durations as rounded as well as decimal figures.

(Click on the image to see the details.)

Toggl’s pricing structure has changed as of today. From now on the pricing will be simple and straightforward – each user in the workspace is priced at $5 per month. There will be no more fixed plans and upgrade-downgrade hassles. You only pay for what you use. There is no upper limit on the workspace size, so there will be no more hassle if your workspace grows over 40 users.

See our Knowledge base for more details on this.

All current Pro plan subscribers - There will be a 3-month transition period, where your existing plan will work fine and you’ll pay the same amount you have used to. Your current plan will be effective until Feb 29th 2012, and after this deadline your account will be upgraded automatically.

As the price increases for teams over 3 then we’re offering a solution – if you pay for 12 months in advance, your price per team member will be $2.50/mo, no matter what your team size is for the next 12 months! This offer is valid only for our current Pro users with a Small or larger plan.

We have also created a public forum thread where we’re answering questions related to the pricing change.

All these changes help Toggl to continue evolving fast and providing the best time tracking experience on the web.

Toggl has updated again!

In addition to the feature that notifies you when a new Blog post has been published, there are a couple of other improvements to make your time tracking even simpler and faster:

1) Keyboard shortcuts. You can now use keyboard shortcuts to quickly start, end or continue your time entries. They are currently available on the web and in Mobile Toggl, but they will also be coming for Toggl Desktop.

2) Home page sidebar is now more compact, without excess information or too much text.

3) You need to make one click less when you start tracking time, because the cursor is now automatically in the correct field, ready to be edited, when you open your Home page.

You can now bookmark your reports to easily retrieve them later for yourself or share with people outside your team.

Each bookmarked report gets a specific URL address that you can send to your team mates, managers or clients, regardless of whether they even have a Toggl account or not. This means that bookmarking will enable you to share your report with absolutely anyone that you want to share it with.

Bookmarked reports will replace the current public reports feature. One important difference between the two is that you can now set exactly those filters and parameters for your reports that you want your client to see, and this is all that they will get, including for example time rounding. No new public reports can be created any more, but the current ones will stay available for another three months.

Your should check the article in our Knowledge base for further instructions and details about this feature. Note that this is a Pro plan feature only.

In addition to our maintenance downtime on Sunday there will be another short downtime on Tuesday, 4th of October to further improve and speed up Toggl.

Approximate outage will last about 10 minutes between 6:00-7:00 UTC. We will be providing update information about the outage and ETA of resuming normal operation via Twitter and blog.

This Sunday (2nd Oct 2011), for approximately one hour between 9am – 10am UTC, you will not be able to access your Toggl online accounts.  You can still track time offline on the extra applications.

This is because at that time, we will be upgrading our database server in order to add a redundancy to our system. The redundancy plan will reduce the possibility of major connection failures in the future.

We have just released a new application that will in time replace all our native mobile applications. You can find it by typing in https://m.toggl.com in your web browser anywhere:

It is a web app, based on HTML5, and just as with all current extra applications, you can track time with m.toggl online as well as offline. When you’re offline, the app will notify you of the fact:

Three other excellent reasons why you should use m.toggl in your mobile from now on:

1. Fast and reponsive. Its operations have been optimized so that it would work seamlessly and quickly in all platforms across the board. Further improvements in this area are ever-continuous;
2. Similar to Toggl main page. The user interface has been made as similar to the web page experience as possible;
3. Google sign-in. On iPhones, m.toggl allows you to use Google sign-in as well (the current native iPhone app does not enable this).

Try it out and share your experiences with us!

As per popular demand, we have developed a new feature in the Reports filters – you can pick and choose any number of Projects or Clients or Users and compare the time you tracked between just the areas that you are interested in.

For example, I wanted to compare the time I spent on Web Design for only two of my clients, so I chose them in the project filter like this:

And got a nifty little pie chart like this:

Try it out and let us know all the ways you can make good use of this!