Here’s what you’ll get with Planner:

• ‘birds-eye’ view of your team’s plans over coming weeks (up to 16 weeks timespan)
• change plans easily by drag and drop
• keep future tasks in view in icebox
• use recurring tasks by making them ‘stick’
• form subtasks to make more detailed plans

There will be a complete integration with Toggl, allowing you to export your clients and projects into Planner and then importing tasks back to Toggl, allowing you to track time to them.

We are waiting for feedback as always!

Binpress, a marketplace for source code, is planning to launch several smaller contests during the next couple of months. There are a lot of coders among Toggl users who might be interested in participating

Got the Code? Now Meet the Competition…

Binpress offers $40,000 for best source code

If you’re a professional developer with a library of quality code you could be in the running to win $40,000 in cash and prizes. Binpress, an appstore-like marketplace where developers buy and sell source code from one another, is hosting a competition for best developed and most useful source-code packages. From international judges with backgrounds across the entire spectrum of web development to industry-leading sponsors, this is more than just a fantastic chance for professional developers to be compensated for their work; it’s a unique opportunity to establish their credentials as high-level web developers.

To ensure the competition is of the highest standard, only professional web developers will be allowed to participate. The competition will run from January 24^th until February 24^th, with winners announced shortly thereafter.

Prizes include:

Winners will receive both cash and prizes from our amazing sponsors:

• First Prize – valued at over $17,500, including a cash prize of $2,500 sponsored by Conduit.
• Second Prize – valued at over $8,000, including a cash prize of $1,200 sponsored by Microsoft.
• Third Prize – valued at approximately $5,000, including a cash prize of $800 sponsored by Microsoft.
• 6 individual category awards for best submission per language (PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, ASP.net, Python) totaling $10,000 including a cash prize of $2,000 sponsored by Tropo.

Contestants may submit multiple entries. Click here for all the competition details.

Good news.  A completely new Toggl Desktop, re-written from scratch, will be launched soon. We – Toggl team and guys from Mooncascade – have built it using a novel approach to software development – Sprint48 – where were are trying to build a working version in just 48 hours.

You can read more about our sprint from:

• our newly created Facebook fan page: facebook.com/Toggl
• ArcticStartup – a Nordic and Baltic technology startup blog: Toggl is a testbed for Sprint48

The reason why we decided to drop the current Toggl Desktop and build a new one from scratch is that we reached a conclusion that the current one has too many issues and the attempt to use a web application as a native application has not worked for us (current one is a site specific browser, i.e. a website in a native container).

Here is a screen shot of what the new Toggl Desktop currently looks like

Improvements that the new Toggl Desktop will bring:

• It is a native application.
• A lot better offline support.
• Faster, more responsive.
• Capabilities to auto-synchronize with the server.
• Smaller installer.
• Etc.

Here is a link to the new alpha version for:

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux support will follow very soon.

NB! Keep in mind that the new Toggl Desktop is still in a very early development stage. There are many features missing, the design is not complete and there can be several bugs. However, if you are feeling adventurous, go ahead, try and let us know what your first impressions are

Cheers,

Toggl Team

We are announcing a public beta version of our new product – Planner.

Planner is a web application with the main purpose of managing your team’s schedule. It:

• gives you a birds-eye view of your team plans during the next couple of weeks;
• allows you to change plans very easily using drag and drop;
• integrates with Toggl which means you can import your team, clients and projects from Toggl into Planner.

Visit Planner at www.plannerhq.com, try it out and let us know what you think.

Thanks!

Toggl Team

If you are unfamiliar with the Autopilot, check out its introduction/faq page.

You can grab it from the Toggl Desktop download page. Make sure to get the beta version. It works currently only with the Nano Nova timer and under Windows and Mac. Linux support will follow soon.

It would be great if you could test-drive it for a while and let us know what you think. To help us improve it, you can fill out a very short survey (6 questions) at Surveymonkey.

Cheers,
Toggl Team

We are going to release the Toggl Autopilot next week. It is an extension to the popular Toggl Desktop.

Essentially, the Autopilot is a helpful little fellow, whose mission is to help you track your time.  It will study your behaviour by memorizing the projects you are tracking and the applications that are in focus while tracking. After a short study period, it can give you suggestions on what project to track, based on the application currently in focus.

The Autopilot is most useful when you have a tendency to forget switching off the timer when finishing a task. It will also help you catch all the seconds when your work time is very fragmented across different projects.

The Autopilot is currently in the beta-testing stage. We’re releasing it with a separate beta version of Toggl Desktop.

Alex Kirs has created a Toggl Dashboard widget for Mac. Check out his site: http://home.kirs.name/toggl-widget

There is also a longer article on the widget in popular Russian technology blog – http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/arbeit/73158/