‣ See our summary of the big, new things in version 2

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What’s changed recently?

2.0.674 (Mac/Windows) Little quality of life things

Just a few things to make time tracking smoother

• Columns. Makes it easier to grab and expand columns when partially or fully hidden. Notes columns now defaults to full remaining width.
• Security. Move some internet calls to a more secure protocol.
• Stability. Fix rare crash due to checking for updates in the background.
• Teams. Editing team members on a project no longer sometimes freezes timesheet updating
• Ease of use. Creating a new category up top now sets the new category for you. Also remembers your login email if you need to sign in again. Plus small visual improvements.

2.0.670 (Mac) Apple Calendar sync hot fix

• Apple Calendar: More reliable sync without extraneous entries.

2.0.668 (Mac/Windows) The nicer, faster, cleaner update

This update focuses on speed, team improvements, and better Apple Calendar sync and Mac global icon text size.

• Faster start up.  Starts up faster particularly if you have lots of data and are cloud syncing
• Speed improvements. Faster project editing and general usage.
• Better subtotals: Smarter sorting. Shows your custom dividers in more places.
• Better export: Handles notes which include paragraph returns much better
• Remembers ‘Hide Done’ filter. In reports or any view with filters it now remembers that you don’t want to see events that you’ve ticked and marked done.
• Server error recovery: Gracefully handles remote errors and lets you keep working as if nothing had happened.
• Notes display fix: No longer sometimes hides your notes in the list.
• Add From Last menu. You can now add from the last session while filling in a previous days timesheet.  Use the 3 dots menu next to the big plus icon.
• New tip window: Let’s you know how to track from the app you’re in without bringing OfficeTime to the front.
• Cosmetic tidy ups.
• Trial expired: No longer forces you to quit when your trial expires. You can repurchase and sign right back in.
• Teams: Adding sessions: Adding from last session now only counts your own sessions.  You can add a session starting from the last session under the 3 vertical dots menu next to the play and add icon. 
• Team member editing:  Now anyone on a team can add or edit team members on a project. We deliberately prevent team members who can see only their own time from making team changes.
• Team Project editing. Editing a project when you can’t see rates now works. 
• Team sharing emails: Invite emails now always show the project name. Reply to address is now the sender.
• Mac Calendar Sync Improvements: Bad calendars will no longer hang OfficeTime.  No longer creates duplicates events and sessions due to rare timing issues between iCloud and OfficeTime sync.
• Mac: Customizable menubar text size so that it fits on your display. See Preferences, Menu Bar

2.0.659 (Mac/Windows) The Spring Tidy Up

• Stop on quit. (Sunshine) Closing the app now always stops all timers.
• Wifi sync. (Sunshine). File->Sync Now no longer asks you to sign in
• Columns: Improved resizing
• Paused sessions. Clicking done on a pause session stops the timer.
• Default projects. Creating a new project from the menu while you have a paused timer no longer sets the project
• Entry shortcuts. Improved the help display when entering text, particularly on Windows.
• Tidy up.  (Sunshine) Removed non functional sharing buttons.
• Improved sync. (Business) OfficeTime now always notifies team copies to update when a new project is made or modified.
• Spell check. (Windows)  Right click now smartly shows either spell checker or copy/paste menu as needed
• Sharing. (Business) Can now remove all people from a shared project.
• Improved team viewing. (Business). No longer sometimes shows a team member’s paused project in the menubar/dock.

2.0.652 (Mac/Windows) – Smoother, Nicer, Prettier

• Faster entry. Much faster session entry particularly if you have a big report below
• Better file defaults: Now remembers the last place you opened an OfficeTime file from
• Fixes a pause: No longer freezes until you click when making a new category or new project from the popup menu when editing an existing session.
• Sharing Projects: Sharing multiple projects no longer fails if you’ve selected a divider to share.
• Help text: Little tweaks to help text.
• Budgets clarity: No longer offers budgets when editing an existing project if you’re a Sunshine customer.
• Mac Dark Mode: Better at being dark in Dark Mode

2.0.650 (Mac/Windows) – Sonoma and Windows security

• Stay signed in : If the server goes down, OfficeTime lets you continue on as normal picking up sync when it comes back online
• Exporting: The grand total for time and duration now line up in the correct columns
• Sharing: The handy list of existing projects to copy people from is now sorted
• Idle notifications: Now shows an easier to understand time like 2h 15m instead of 135m when notifying you how long you haven’t been timing for
• Version checking: Upgraded version control checking to use latest protocol for safety and now offers to contact support for you.
• Deleting sessions. Now properly updated the totals when you delete a session.
• Licensing: More friendly if you upgrade and aren’t signed in for it to check your license. We believe you should never be locked out from software you’ve purchased.
• (Windows) Default locations.  To respect user privacy, OfficeTime no longer saves new files to Documents unless asked. If you already have data in Documents, it is unaffected. Data and backups are now in the application support folder located at \Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\OfficeTime
• (Mac) Typing. macOS Sonoma autocomplete no longer messes up typing in the main area notes.
• (Mac) Calendar: Repeat events from Apple Calendar no longer cause the timesheet to repeatedly update
• (Mac) Calendar:  For simplicity, identical repeating events don’t import. However any changes you make to a repeating event in Apple Calendar  on a specific day does get imported.

2.0.646 (Mac/Windows) – Sharing and Privacy

• Share multiple projects at once. You can now share several projects to your team at once. Choose Edit-Projects menu. Select the projects and click share.
• Business privacy mode. Get all the business features while staying offline and cloud free. Write to support@officetime.net to change your plan.
• Small tweaks and improvements.

2.0.641 (Mac/Windows) – Sorting and sharing

• Improved sorting. Should consistently sort details by date and better understand what you’re trying to sort. Some views may be remembered in their old state and need you to manually sort them once.
• Away window always on top. Never lose the “you’ve been away” window again as it stays front and center. 
• Category sharing. You can now choose which categories get shared out to the team. Click the Share Categories button when sharing a project. Any category used in a shared project gets automatically shared even if you don’t use this option.
• Better passwords. You can now use unusual characters in your password to keep it more secure. Requires latest iOS version for the new passwords to work on iPhone/iPad.
• (Windows) Right click text menu. You can now right click to get the standard cut, copy, paste menu. Finally!
• (Mac) Better Apple Calendar sync. Now looks for changes much further back.

2.0.638 (Mac/Windows) – A few tweaks

• Date choosers always default to today even if you leave OfficeTime open overnight
• Mac: Improvements to Apple Calendar sync under Ventura 13.2 and above
• Mac: Dark mode improvements

2.0.634 (Mac/Windows) – The Fix My Sync Update!

• Fixes some people being unable to sync. You may need to sign in again by clicking the Unlock button or under the Help->Sync menu.

2.0.632 (Mac) – The Dark Halloween Update

• In Halloween spirit, the notes up top were too dark (when in dark mode.) That was too scary so they are now back to boring white.

2.0.630 (Mac/Windows) – The Ventura Update
Don’t worry. There’s good stuff for Windows too!

This update improves things for MacOS Ventura, provides a new contact picker and improved away window.

• The idle detection window: Now handily keeps track of the last project you moved time into so you don’t have to pick it each time
• Mac: New contacts picker helps keep your contacts organized. MacOS 12 Monterey and above.
• Mac: Contacts picker works on MacOS Ventura
• Mac: Increased stability under MacOS Ventura
• Invoice screen now consistently fills in address cue text
• Cloud:  Dramatically faster sign in if you’re on a team and sign in again
• Windows: Better a placing new windows on the correct screen if you have multiple monitors under different resolutions
• Fixed some memory leaks

2.0.628 (Windows/Mac) – The Faster, Better Update

• Much snappier start button particularly if you have lots of sessions tracked.
• No longer rarely sets your start time to early morning if left on overnight.
• Improved filtering. Better remembers and displays which filters you’re using between launches.
• No longer rarely says you don’t have permission for a shared project when signing in for the first time.
• MacOS Ventura compatible.

2.0.625 (Windows/Mac) – Tidying House

You tell us. We listen. We fixed a few bugs fixed people like you wrote in about.

This is also an important update because it supports changes to the server that will take place later in August. Everyone who syncs will need this version or later come that time.

• The Quick Start menu (or the global start icon) now always sets the the default category correctly
• Date range picker works properly in all views 
• Small sync speed improvements
• Fix subscription status not always being recognized
• Other small improvements

2.0.622 (Windows/Mac) – The Sync Optimizer

We’ve changed when OfficeTime syncs so that it syncs sooner and faster. Plus a few handy quality of life improvements.

• Invoicing selected items works again
• If you make a new category while editing a session, it now helpfully assumes you want to use that category here.
• Notification improvements. Won’t notify you while the computer is asleep and will notify you as soon as it wakes up.
• Faster sync. Syncs faster after your last change and reduces unnecessary syncs to speed things up. 
• Much faster project sharing.
• Now shows a sync animation to let you know when changes are coming in from one of your other devices
• Consistent sync. Fixes a rare case where if you made many changes, some of them might not sync out until restart.
• Cosmetic improvements

2.0.615 Mac + 2.0.614 (Windows) – The Smoothie Update

Better sync and more! OfficeTime is smoother and more stable particularly for those doing cloud sync.

• Improved sync and stability. Sync is now able to recover automatically from problems.
• New preference to turn off display of relative dates like Today and Yesterday
• Invoicing only selected items now works properly again

2.0.606 (Windows/Mac) – The stop working in your sleep update!

OfficeTime used to like to sync while your computer was sleeping. This lead to bad dreams and a state of general confusion for OfficeTime giving symptoms like you or I might have after a bad night like sluggishness and forgetfulness. OfficeTime now sleeps properly and behaves much more like an upstanding citizen.

• No longer syncs during sleep which was causing troubles
• Various cosmetic fixes

2.0.603 (Windows/Mac) – The Pre Christmas Tidy Up

We’re tidying up before the holidays. This update improves sync and backup.

• Better at recovering from a stalled sync
• Windows: OneDrive will no longer complain about a bad extension in your backups folder.
• Windows: No longer quits when manually logging in

2.0.601 (Windows/Mac) – The Safety Update

Your time tracking is valuable. This update keeps your data safer by making more backups and automatically recovering from problems.

• Now keeps multiple current, hourly, daily and monthly backups. You can change how many are kept in the Backups section of the preferences.
• Automatically detects crashes and sync problems and imports a recovery backup to ensure you don’t lose data even if something goes wrong.
• Some small visual tidy up to keep the preferences screen nice and clean.
• Will now always make backups for you even if you have opened an existing backup file.

2.0.600 (Windows/Mac)

• Fixes issue logging in for the first time if you still have OfficeTime demonstration data from years ago
• Fixes possible crash if you press tab with a report filter open
• Better problem logging
• (Mac) Fixes crash on quit if you had a report filter menu open
• (Mac) Improved dark mode
• (Mac) Improved Apple Calendar sync, particularly if you are also using OfficeTime cloud sync. If you’ve received any calendar duplicates in the past, you can remove them with Edit->Remove Duplicates menu.
• (Windows) Logging moved from Documents to OfficeTime’s support folder.
• (Windows) Uses less resources. Particularly handy if you rarely close OfficeTime.

2.0.597 (Windows/Mac)

• Categories now always sort correctly
• Small visual enhancements
• “You’ve been away” preference moved to notification panel
• Fixes rare issue preventing sync, particularly if you need to reset your account
• (Windows) Windows 11 ready. Various visual improvements for Windows 11
• (Windows) Works much better even if you leave it on for days
• (Windows) Better a keeping popup menus on the correct display
• (Windows) Tab key works better now when creating projects

2.0.594 (Windows only)

• (Windows) No longer sometimes hides the taskbar on exit.

2.0.590 (Windows/Mac)

Big things:

• Improved top area. 
• + button now adds instantly
• New 3 dots “More” icon at top for all extra features.+ icon at top now quickly adds a session with no dropdown menu.
• Keyboard shortcuts behave more consistently, particularly ESC and Enter when entering an item up top.
• New add more icon to quickly add further entries.
• (Windows) Much sharper text and images for those with hi-res (hiDPI) monitors.
• New online Help available from Help menu.
• (Teams) When inviting your team to a project, there’s no need to type in all those emails. Just choose a team from an existing project!
• Exporting to Excel no longer sometimes appears in one column.
• You now need to enter your Version 2 serial or login to unlock.
• New icon
• As we’re leaving early access, we’ve removed the free preview of the Budgets feature. Budgets are still available to Freelancer and Business Edition customers.

Small things:

• No longer complains about missing serials if you import a version 2 file.
• Sync: No longer allows importing of files with other people’s data in it
• Sync: No longer fails to do some backups if you logged in without a file open.
• Sync: No longer sometimes thinks you’ve been idle when logging into an account with a running timer
• Demonstration data now comes in with a recent date
• Warns Sunshine Users that cloud sync isn’t included
• New window for version 1 users to let you enter a serial, sign in, or get an upgrade discount.
• If your system uses “A.M.” instead of AM you will no longer have trouble clicking on it.
• No longer prevents login if you delete your old .otd file
• Clicking subtotals now consistently shows only items in that subtotal
• Support emails include more info for faster support.
• Removed developer test items from Help->Advanced menu
• (Windows) Disabled File->New, Open , Save when cloud syncing as they are not relevant.
• (Mac) Fixes rare startup fail caused by Apple Calendar sync