Live Activities

Together with the release of iOS 16.1, Tyme adopts the shiny new feature Apple has to offer: Live Activities. Any running timers are now live on your lock screen. So you always have an instant view on how long a timer is already running, what task is active and how many hours you've already worked on that day.

iOS 16 Lockscreen Widgets

With this version and the release of iOS 16, Tyme has integrated widgets for the lock screen. You now have an overview of your current working hours and running timers right on the lock screen. Tapping the widgets also works as quick access into the app. The widgets always show your times live. So all it takes is a quick glance at your iPhone to see how long you've been working today.

Plugins

With this update it is finally possible to write or use plugins for Tyme. Using plugins you can export data from Tyme in any form or feed Tyme with data from other sources. The list of plugins is constantly being expanded and improved. Just have a look at Tyme > Settings > Plugins. If you have an idea for a plugin or want to develop one yourself, check out the Tyme Plugins page and let us know.

Bugfixes

• Statistics fix for tasks with planned times and due date set in the project
• Drag & drop for iOS is now always active when custom sorting is enabled. Just press, hold and start dragging
• Single day vacation display in the statistics has been fixed
• Duplication of older calendar events has been fixed
• Lots of smaller improvements

Bugfixes

• Missing Times are now hidden, when certain filters are active
• New selectable column for the PDF timesheet: "Categories"
• Notes in the timesheet PDF are now separated by line breaks
• Fixed wrong vacation display in the statistics when the vacation ends in another month
• Performance improvements for large databases

Sneak peek at the next version

Time tracking is an important part of the workflow. Hours need to be recorded correctly for projects and tasks, invoices need to be created from the recorded times or the data needs to be transferred to other programs.

That's why we are happy to announce that Tyme will support plugins that allow data flows into or out of Tyme starting with the next release.

For the start we will provide some plugins and also plan to integrate new ones on a regular basis. As always, suggestions and ideas are welcome.

For those interested in the technology, there is already documentation (still under construction) for the plugins: https://github.com/tyme-app/plugins.

Features

• Non-working entries can now be less than a day. Half-day vacations or hourly absense times are possible now
• Categories can now have colors. It should be a lot easier now to identify categories in the statistics

Bugfixes

• Made some improvements in the team sync
• Fixed a rare crash in the time entries screen
• Fixed an issue where the first bar of the chart in the project report PDF was not drawn

Changes

• The timesheet PDF shows the calendar week now
• Fixed some rendering issues in the project report
• Auto login for team users after activating
• Lots of UI tweaks under the hood

New PDF Export

We've rewritten the PDF exporter and made it much more flexible. As a first new type of PDFs, there is now a Project Report. The Project Report gives you a detailed overview of a projects spent time, revenue and budget.

As always, if you have an idea or a suggestion, drop us an email.

Other Tweaks

• The charts now shows where a new year or month starts, if the displayed date range is very large
• When restoring from a backup, you can now choose between merging and replacing your database
• The sync should be a bit faster and using less resources now

Bugfixes

• The custom date range is now persisted between app starts
• Dropdown keyboard navigation now works as expected
• Fixed a possible crash in the Timings importer

New Features

• Tasks and subtasks now adopt the hourly rate of the project when it is changed. This can be overwritten in the task.
• Mileage tasks and expenses can now have a planned budget

Bugfixes

• Tweaked little things in the light / dark mode
• Fixed an issue that could occur, when fetching data in the background

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash for negative expenses
• Fixed another crash, that could occur while calculating reminder notifications
• Made sure, that old events in the calendar are deleted, if you switch to a new calendar
• Fixed chart flickering while reloading
• Fixed a crash on macOS Mojave

Shortcuts

Tyme now offers over 20 different actions for the Shortcuts app on macOS and iOS. Fully automate creating tasks, completing projects or exporting time tracking data using shortcuts.

Additionally, Tyme for Mac offers five different Shortcut triggers (Preferences > Integrations > Shortcut Triggers), that can launch a Shortcut when, for example, a timer is started or a task is completed.

Have a look at the documentation: Automating Tyme with Shortcuts and the examples in our blog.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash in the time entries screen that occured for some users
• Fixed importing of fixed rate tasks from a Timings dataset
• Optimized calendar sync for large datasets

Features

• All menus in the iOS app have been re-worked and are using popover-menus now
• iOS: Drag & drop in the project screen now has a dedicated drag & drop mode
• Simplification of the settings menus in the project, time entries and statistics screen
• Added user filter to AppleScript time entries

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where a new timer for a team project would not sync correctly from the watch
• When filtering for assigned tasks: All lists and the statistics take that setting into account now

Shortcuts

Tyme now offers over 20 different actions for the Shortcuts app on iOS. Fully automate creating tasks, completing projects or exporting time tracking data using shortcuts.

🎁 The same shortcuts will be available for the Mac app as soon as macOS 12 Monterey is released.

Additional changes

• New menu shortcut for Show Times
• New menu shortcut for Add Time Entry
• The watch app now displays categories
• Added a dedicated settings screen for the watch app
• Fixed a sync bug where a deleted time entry would not sync in rare cases

• The watch app UI has been tweaked to show you more colors
• New non-working types: Public holiday, Special leave and overtime compensation
• Merging imports with existing projects has been optimized
• New plugin: Items from offers in GrandTotal can now be imported directly into Tyme

• Added UNDO support for actions in the menu bar and the note dialog
• Optimized the sync for very large datasets
• Toggling the revenue/time display is now persisted between launches of the app
• Lots of small bugfixes under the hood

We're currently extending Tyme's shortcuts. If you have an idea for an automation you'd love to have, drop us a mail: hello@tyme-app.com

• Categories can be created directly from the project screen
• Fixed a bug, that caused copy & pasting of time entries to fail
• Fixed an issue in the display of planned times at the end of the month
• Fixed a crash when re-assigning multiple time entries to a new team member
• Fixed mite importer hourly rates not imported correctly
• Fixed an issue, that could cause the sync to re-sync w/o having local changes

Bugfix release:

• Fixed an issue related to data imported from Timings, that would not sync correctly

Features

• Entire categories including all projects can be shared with your team now
• You can now specify the sort direction of projects (ascending / descending)
• The hours distribution chart renders data in a hierarchy now
• Sub-tasks are now indented in the project list

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue when displaying planned hours in the statistics
• Categories in all dropdowns are not repeated for each project (Lists are more compact)
• Fixed some alignments for non-retina displays
• The number of tasks displayed on a closed project displays now correctly, when the option to hide completed tasks is active
• Archiving / Completing multiple tasks and projects at once now behaves as expected

Features

• Projects: New option to exclude completed tasks from the total sum of a project. If you have a long ongoing project and would like to only see the accumulated times of your current active tasks, this option is for you
• Projects: Graphical progress for projects & tasks. Get a faster overview of your projects & tasks time distribution

Bugfixes

• Projects: When having multiple tasks selected, completing or duplicating them works as expected
• Projects: Multi selection correctly restores when opening or closing a project
• Projects: Copy & Paste for multiple projects has been optimized

Project List

• Viewing completed tasks was rather cumbersome. Now there is a button to show / hide completed task on each project

GrandTotal Sync

• When cancelling an invoice, Tyme automatically resets the billing state now
• You can now open the invoice directly from a time entry in Tyme. Just right click > Open in GrandTotal

Widgets & Watch App

• The sync has been optimized. Updates should be faster now
• If you stop a timer via the watch, your notes don't get overwritten anymore

• NEW: Global hotkey to add or edit a time entry from any app without switching to Tyme
• NEW: toggl importer. Import all your time entries from toggl
• NEW: Keyboard shortcut for adding sub-tasks
• NEW: Select all / none button in the tasks selection
• Improved all data importers
• And as usual a lot of small improvements

• Archived categories are now hidden in the project dropdown
• The workload chart has been redesigned to work for small screen sizes
• Searching in the task selection, when having a large number of tasks, is now way faster

• Categories can be archived now
• Added mite importer
• Sped up data importer
• Overall performance improvements
• Fixed a small issue in the average working hours chart
• Fixed a potential crasher during undoing
• Fixed an issue, that caused the sync to re-sync when you have a lot of archived projects

• iCloud Sync improvements
• Fixed vacation display in the statistics
• A lot of small improvements under the hood

• Just a few minor bugfixes

It's all about Big Sur:

• New Widgets
• New mini stats in the titlebar
• Additional UI Improvements
• Quickfix in the titlebar when running good old macOS High Sierra

• Vacations are displayed as all day events in the calendar now
• Fixed a bug, that could cause the watch app to crash, when you're on vacation

• Improved sorting of projects & categories
• While entering time entries manually, the duration check is now less invasive
• Fixed an issue in the calendar sync, that could lead to event duplication

A new day, a new bug. This update fixes an issue for older Apple Watches, that lead to a crash when opening the app. It also brings back the new statistics for the watch app that where hidden because of mysterious circumstances.

Widgets, Widgets, Widgets!

Hello iOS 14. Tyme now offers widgets for your home screen!

• Instantly see when you started working or when it's time to call it a day.
• Detailed today, week and month workload overview
• Running timers
• Different widgets sizes

Additional Changes:

• PDF Export: Customizable the font size
• PDF Export: New grouping mode: Timesheet
• Fixed a bug (again) in the statistics regarding the display of planned durations
• A bug has been fixed, that lead to crashes for some users while editing a time entry
• Another bug has been fixed, that created a running timer, when adding a new time entry

• Enabled multiple selection of projects & tasks in the projects screen
• Added custom font size to PDF export
• Fixed a bug (again) in the statistics regarding the display of planned durations
• Another bug has been fixed, that created a running timer, when adding a new time entry

• Added custom font size to PDF export
• Fixed a bug (again) in the statistics regarding the display of planned durations. Sorry for that
• Enabled multiple selection of projects & tasks in the projects screen

• Fixed a bug in the statistics regarding the display of planned durations
• New Option: Cancel quitting Tyme in timer dialog (macOS)
• Project & task colors are shown in all lists to identify them more easily
• Fixed disappearing buttons in bold text mode (iOS)
• Changed calculation in reminders, statistics and menu bar to use rounded times instead of exact ones
• Fixed planned hours calculation for periods that contain vacation days
• Small UI tweaks

• New Option: Cancel quitting Tyme in timer dialog (macOS)
• Project & task colors are shown in all lists to identify them more easily
• Fixed disappearing buttons in bold text mode (iOS)
• Changed calculation in reminders, statistics and menu bar to use rounded times instead of exact ones
• Fixed planned hours calculation for periods that contain vacation days
• Small UI tweaks

• Fix: Reminders are not showing when on vacation :)
• Fix: Categories in the statistics have a fixed color now
• Smaller Bugfixes & UI Tweaks

• New Filter: All projects
• Fixed some smaller UI glitches
• Vacations and other non-working entries are now excluded from a search when filtering for tasks
• Fixed an issue in the calendar sync that could lead to invalid timestamps

The Vacation Update

Finally you can enter non-working days like a vacation or sick days in Tyme. Share a vacation with your team, create absence days for your whole team or just create a vacation for yourself. Non-working days are displayed in the time entries and statistics. See instantly where you took a vacation and how many days of absence you have.

Along with the vacation feature, you can enable an additional new gap-chart in the time entries, that shows you when you work during the day. Gaps and missing times are instantly identifiable using this chart.

Other Bugfixes:

• Added unsaved changes hint for macOS
• First day of the week is now configurable
• Calendar sync optimizations
• An error in the display of some columns in the times screen was fixed
• UI Tweaks

• Fixed an issue in the PDF renderer for large notes
• Fixed cursor focus in notes text field
• Fixed hanging sync in rare cases
• Calendar Sync optimizations

If you have any questions or a feature request, drop us a mail: hello@tyme-app.com

• Fixed a crash that occured on some machines during editing / syncing
• Improved the performance of the task search for long tasks lists

• Simplified custom date selector
• The Mac app now uses popups instead of slideovers to display a dialog, if the window is too small
• Initial calendar sync now twice as fast
• Less annoying error messages when Tyme can't sync
• Enhanced Pie Chart
• PDF Export Bugfixes (Notes, Task sums)

Undo Support Tyme has now full undo (CMD+Z) support. Undo also works on iOS, so no matter where you accidentally deleted a project, stopped a timer or duplicated a whole year worth of data: Undo everything.

If we could we'd undo 2020, but just let's hope things will get better soon. Stay healthy!

Additional changes: Geofences for sub-tasks and as always: Polishing and bugfixes of smaller things…

• Fixed: Dropdown search for hierarchical items
• Fixed: iPad timer clock in split screen mode
• Fixed: Mileage rate display in PDF when your region setting is not metric

• Fixed a "missing days" bug in the workload chart
• Fixed a bug in the working days display
• Reordered elements in time entries filter
• Time entries filter now remembers the last search term
• Calendar sync optimizations
• Expenses are now skipped in the hours distribution chart when viewing hours
• Text corrections
• Menu bar bugfix for properly detecting dark mode after a reboot

• Added a new option to filter for Task & Sub-tasks in the statistics
• Fixed running timer refresh in projects & time entries
• Fixed workload percentage display
• Added warning for full iCloud storage
• Fixed a funny textfield bug in macOS 10.13
• Increased contrast for cells in dark mode
• Increased contrast for the recording button in light mode
• Removed existing expenses from the expense group selection
• Added total revenue for the date cell in the time entries screen
• Updated warning icons
• Fixed CMD + N for new time entry
• Added grandtotal row when combining multiple projects into one PDF
• Exposed sub-tasks in export, when grouping by tasks
• Added search bar to iOS project & task selection
• Added date, start_time, end_time to CSV export
• Added optional task sums to PDF
• Added "show times" shortcut to project view

Well, here is the first update for Tyme 3… exciting. A few smaller UI bugfixes and a crash in the statistics has been fixed.

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