Annika Helendi, Author at Toggl Blog

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Top 5 Free Project Management Tools and the Problems They Solve for You

Project management is the art of getting sh*t done.

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Who’s the best SEO, Designer or Mobile Dev? [Test]

Take the job test to score a Toggl t-shirt! Oh, and maybe, you know, join our awesome team?

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Information about current downtime

[7:30 UTC] The operations team confirmed the service is now up for 15 minutes. Sorry for any inconvenience caused! We are still cautiously monitoring the progress and getting information from hosting provider. …

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Tracking Your Costs and Earnings with Toggl Pro

If you are not using Toggl Pro already, here’s the #1 reason you should – you can mark your time logs with billable rates!

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[Campaign] The iPad for #TogglMyWhat Goes to …

This is it, folks. The votes are in and Toggl staff’s favorite #TogglMyWhat…

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Toggl User Survey Results & Insights

Being the market leader in the time tracking field, the first instinct for publishing business data and internal marketing lessons is NOT TO DO IT.

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[Campaign] #TogglMyWhat to get a free iPad!

OK, maybe you don’t need an excuse for slacking, but if there’s ever a good reason, it’s this.

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Win an iPad Air For a Fun Tweet

It’s time for our annual iPad giveaway contest! The rules are simple: Take a picture of a clever/fun way to use your work break. Tweet the picture using the #togglbreak hashtag. We’ll pick one luc…

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Get 20% Extra Pro Credit With Limited Holiday Offer

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Save This! Employee Timesheet Template and Online Stopwatch

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Now! First Time Upgraders Get 6 Months of Pro For Only $20

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Visual Task Management Integrated With Toggl Time Tracking

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How To Create a Successful Twitter Campaign For a SaaS Business?

Lucky winner of #iPadFromToggl – Krista Ann A few weeks ago we ran a successful Twitter campaign that promised to give away an iPad to one busy person who gets nominated by using the hashtag #iPadFromToggl. Now that the campaign is wrapped up (we got over 400 nominations) and the iPad has found its owner it’s time to share our experience with you. So here’s my 2 cents on how to create a successful social media campaign in Twitter:

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The Busy Person Who Wins an #iPadFromToggl Is…

So it’s time to wrap up this campaig…

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Online Timesheet Template That Your Friends Need To Bookmark

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Help Us Out! We Need Pictures Of Togglers For Our New Web Page

We’re working on a new design for our public web and would…

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Who’s The Busiest Person That Deserves an #iPadFromToggl?

It’s time to forget about the ice buckets and nominate the busiest person you know for an…

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Simple Online Stopwatch That Your Friends Need To Bookmark

We have created this…

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Time Management Tools For Successful People

Time is the most valuable resource that we have so we must use it very wisely. Fortunately there are lots of apps and tools that help us get better at our time management and be more successful. Here are the best free(!) time management tools and apps that are available on the web.

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Survey Results: How Long Can People Focus On One Task?

A few weeks ago, we ran a survey about the time management habits of Toggl online timer users. One of the questions was about the maximum length that people can keep their focus on only one task and here are the results:

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Top 3 Time Management Mistakes Identified By Togglers

A few weeks ago, we ran a survey about the time management habits of Toggl online timer users. We contacted about 5000 people and got an impressive 536 replies as of today. Based on the open answers to this question we categorized the most common time management mistakes that Toggl users identified. Are you guilty of any of these?

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Best Productivity Tips By Toggl Users & Winner Of iPad

Last week we held a yet another competition with an iPad as a prize. This time we wanted to know the most useful productivity tips that you have. We decided to give the iPad for this straight forward #ProductivityTip: If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. Congrats!

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Share Personal Productivity Tips In Social Media & Win iPad

Only this week! Share your best productivity tips on…

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Help Us Pick The Winner – Toggl Team’s Video Challenge

Anna-Liisa & Annika trying to capture the essence of Toggl in Istanbul, Turkey. For the last 3 years we have traveled with our whole team to some foreign country and spent a week working on some interesting and unusual task. We call it Toggl Challenge (read more about it here – http://blog.toggl.com/2013/09/toggl-challenge-weeklong-getaway/) and this year it took place in Istanbul, Turkey. We had 6 teams and every team had to produce a video with maximum of 2 minutes that would capture the “essence of Toggl”. Now, fellow togglers, we need your help to pick the winner of this year’s Challenge. See the videos below and upvote your favorite ones in Youtube!

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Scheduled downtime: 3h on April 27th @8am-11am UTC

There will be 3 hours planned downtime for database server upgrade this Sunday, 27th of April at 08:00 am UTC. During this time Toggl services will not be reachable, including reports. …

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How To Motivate Employees To Track Time And To Perform Better?

Many companies still (falsely) believe that making their employees submit Excel timesheets is helping to improve productivity inside the office. This might be a good idea in theory, but reality is another story. When faced with the Excel timesheet template, most employees will try to estimate a whole week’s (or even month’s) activities in one go. This gives very inaccurate data because of our faulty memory and it encourages “sugarcoating” the work hours. On top of this, the “filling the Excel template” kind of activity takes more time that could be used on something productive. In essence, time management shouldn’t be time consuming!

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3 Simple Time Management Hacks For Small Teams

Time management should be a strategic, ongoing process, and to achieve maximum productivity every day without burning out, you need to be very aware of the choices you make. Here are some simple time management hacks (or tips) on how to improve productivity while managing a small team:

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How To Measure Personal Productivity?

Regardless of the long work days, does it sometimes feel that you should get more done? Maybe unknowingly you’re not as productive as you think you are? The only way to find out is to measure your personal productivity and we suggest you use Toggl time tracker for this. Here’s how you improve your time management:

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5 Eye Opening Lessons From a Start-up Referral Marketing Campaign

Recently we experimented with our first-time-ever referral marketing campaign in Toggl. Basically, it was very simple: recommend Toggl to your friends via your custom invitation link and win an iPad Air. We had several experiments and hypotheses included in the campaign and here’s a short summary of what we learned:

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Integrate Time Tracking With JIRA, Asana & Others via Toggl Button

Our most successful open sourced project “Toggl Button” (a Chrome extension) now has some new tools that integrate with Toggl time tracking. It already works in: JIRA, Teamweek, Pivotal Tracker, Asana, GitHub, GitLab, Trello, Redbooth, Worksection, Podio, Unfuddle, Basecamp, Producteev and there is more to come. The extension generates “Start timer” link on the tasks, to-do’s and check-list items inside the tools mentioned above.

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Woo-Hoo, One Lucky Toggler Won an iPad Air!

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Bring a Friend to Toggl and Win Free Stuff!

For the first time in Toggl’s history we’ve been hosting a ca…

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Special Offer: Get 20% Extra Toggl Credit

In the spirit of the Holidays, Toggl has…

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Video: Setting Up Your Team For Time Tracking

We’re happy to introduce a brand new video tutorial about setting up your team in Toggl. Check it out and share it with…

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5 Best Online Work Timers To Improve Efficiency At Work

Work timers provide motivation, accountability, documentation, balance – and vital management data. Whether you manage yourself, work with a team, or lead a group, you can get the most from your efforts by keeping track of your most precious resource – productive time. Better yet, managers (and self-managers) can find that elusive sweet spot – a perfect balance between underwork and overwork.

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New Toggl Now Default Web Tracker For Newbie Accounts

Our team has been working hard on New Toggl these past few months and today we are finally ready to launch it as the default web timer for new accounts. We are also continuing with improvements and upgrades until we are ready to completely switch everybody over to the new version. We encourage existing users to also use the new version by logging in to new.toggl.com Please note that some features are missing, but they will be added in the coming weeks. And of course there will be some exciting new features coming online in the following months as well.

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Possible Disruptions To Service on Oct 24 @ 3am-9am UTC

There is maintenance work carried out in our data center on Oct 24 at 3:00 AM – 9:00 AM UTC (Oct 23 at 10:00 PM – 4:00 AM CDT). During this time there might be network connectivity…

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Toggl’s Case Study: How To Get Your Product’s Wikipedia Page

Have you also struggled with creating your company’s Wikipedia page? And along the way, did you wonder how all your competitors managed to get one? We did! In the end, it actually turned out to be so easy that we didn’t figure it out for quite some time. So, lets start this story from the beginning…

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My 5 Favorite Time Management Apps & Tools

Time management and improving efficiency is really important, because, you know… time is money! I mostly work at the office, but also sometimes at home, on the train going back to my hometown or at some cafe enjoying my morning coffee (okay, actually it’s more likely a green tea). I’m not the very best expert on this subject, but I’ve been using some great apps that have helped me out with this semi-remote working a lot. Hopefully you find something new and useful here too!

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Video: A Rare Peek Into Toggl’s Office

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30% Off: Toggl’s No-Brainer Upgrade

We’ve updated the blog post text to clarify some of the most common questions coming from you on this offer. 29.08.2013 Great news! We have a great limited time offer for all of our users, who are currently not using the benefits of Toggl Pro. Upgrade to Toggl Pro for only $3.50 instead of $5 per user per month. If you’re thinking of giving it a go, now’s the time. All you need to do is subscribe to Toggl Pro between August 27 and September 9 by making a three-month pre-payment*, and we’ll cut the price by 30%! It’s as simple as that, and you’ll get all the benefits of Pro for less than you’d pay for an Orange Mocha Frappuccino at Starbucks. And because we’re the generous type, as a first time subscriber you’ll also get the first 30 days free of charge with our 30-day free Pro trial. So, that’s four months of Toggl Pro for less than the usual price of three.**

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Latest Updates From New Toggl

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My 3 Favorite Time Management Apps For Nexus 7

Google Nexus 7 is an Android based tablet that is quite small but still pretty great. I’m using some great apps that make my time management simpler any time I’m on the go. These apps all have three common attributes that I find very important: Cloud based – I can use these on multiple devices and all my data is in sync. Free – well, who doesn’t like great apps that are also free? Really easy to use – You can be up and running in just a few minutes

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How to Manage Time Keeping With Inevitable Daily Multi-Tasking?

Different researches have proven that multi-tasking is bad for productivity and focusing on only one task at a time will give the best results. Still, I think most people regularly find themselves in situations that need multi-tasking: unexpected phone calls, e-mails with urgent matters, random thoughts about stuff you forgot to do etc. If you also need to keep track of your time while juggling between different tasks, it could get a bit tricky. I’ve found a solution that works best for my workflow and keeps pretty accurate track of all the time I spend on different tasks. Maybe you also find it useful?

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Project Planning Tool Teamweek Goes Freemium

We are happy to announce that Teamweek, the project planning tool from the team behind Toggl, has two major updates: Teamweek now offers free accounts for small teams (up to 5 members)! Free accounts have the same project planning and team scheduling features that bigger teams enjoy.

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Chrome Extension “Toggl Button” Has Been Open Sourced

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Add Toggl Online Timer to TeamWeek and Pivotal Tracker

Great news! We have created a Chrome Extension called “Toggl Button” for easy one-click time tracking. You can now add Toggl extension to your Chrome and start the online timer within the popular web tools TeamWeek (project planning) and Pivotal Tracker (project management). Toggl Button (Chrome Extension) in TeamWeek

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New Toggl Online Timer Ready for Beta Testing

We are happy to announce that our new Toggl Web is progressing nicely and the first of the pages, Web Timer is ready for beta testing. Would you like to help us iron out the bugs and contribute to a cooler Toggl online timer? We assume ‘yes’ so here’s what you need to know: You can access the new application here – new.toggl.com Log in with your existing Toggl account and start tracking time as you would normally

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You Can Now Sync Toggl And JIRA

UPDATE: JIRA now supports Toggl button Chrome extension, get it at the Chrome web store! We welcome Joggler – a tool to integrate Toggl with JIRA, developed by Comerge AG! Comerge AG, a Switzerland-based software development company, and also big fans and users of Toggl online timer, promise that:

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4 Funny Animated Time Management Moments

I think we’ve all been in one of these situations at least once. Yes, we are admitting it without guilt! Time management is tricky and here are some situations we all probably recognize. I should be working, but…

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Toggl Online Timer – Best Practices for Teams now on video

We’ve received many requests to explain the best ways and special features for using Toggl in a team. Sending invites, setting up your team to track time, and reporting are all really easy and we have several articles about this in our…

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3 Main Reasons Why Work In a Tech Start-up Is Never Done

“Isn’t Toggl ready yet?” my non-IT friends often ask me. It sounds like the strangest question to me. How could it be ready?… it is never ready, complete or finished. Working in a tech start-up like Toggl is exciting. The work never stops, there’s something new to do every day. And the workload is always growing – in a good way. Working hard or hardly working? Somehow, for people who haven’t seen it up close, the idea of the workflow in a tech company is actually so far from reality. I must admit, being a marketing person myself, I also had a different idea of it all at first. Today, having been part of the Toggl team (check out who we are) for 7 months, I feel like “I can see clearly now…” From my non-tech point of view, the reasons that prevent Toggl ever getting “ready” are: