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Insights: Future of Everhour Invoicing

N.B. This post is of huge importance for us since we need to decide where to move on in terms of invoicing in Everhour. And how else can we make the best decision if not based on your very much welcomed feedback? :) So give the article some thought and share your ideas in the comments or via email sent at mike.kulakov {at} everhour.com.

Invoicing basics

If you are using Everhour, you must have noticed that the app has an option to make a project billable. It all works ridiculously simply: by choosing Yes, you’ll have all the project time considered billable, while with No selected, the hours will be recognized as non-payable.

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Everhour Chrome Extension Launched

We are excited as heck because the long-awaited Everhour Chrome extension has just been released. Huray!

When choosing a web browser to start with, we looked into the app usage analytics to see that Google Chrome was actually the most popular one. Sorry if you’re not a Chrome person but don’t you worry – as soon as early feedback is collected, Firefox and Safari will be coming your way!

Though we ourselves feel very happy about the first version (hope that doesn’t sound too cocky :) ), it is still essential to hear your opinion vs. just being content with our own judgement.

So don’t hold back and let us know your honest initial impressions: whether the installation process is smooth, if the extension works fine, etc. You can do it via the comments section or by emailing at mike.kulakov {at} everhour.com. Hoping to hear from you!

Below are more details on how to install and use the Everhour plugin, great opportunities it gives and the overall functionality.

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News: Tweaks Coming to Pivotal Time Tracking, Integrations & Reports

Note: The article will primarily describe improvements related to Pivotal Tracker but except for a few app-specific things, most of these features will be implemented with other integrations as well.

From the start, our goal with Pivotal time tracking was to release a first version in line with our own vision to then get maximum user feedback and polish the functionality based on your suggestions. Luckily for us, we have the most engaged customers ever and it’s been very rewarding to see all the positive reviews and what’s even cooler, improvement ideas.

Special kudos goes to @Dave, @Joseph, @Ryan, @Mark, @Michael, @Andy, @Brian, and @Douglas for such active participation in discussions. Thank you guys for the involvement!

It’s also hard not to mention the Pivotal Tracker team who have supported us a lot. We reached out to them telling about the initial positive reaction to the integration and asking for help to get even more feedback. They actually really liked Everhour and featured it on their page for some time which was awesome.

@Ronan, really appreciate your help and responding at the speed of light!

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Insights: Everhour Browser Extension Coming

Though Everhour is great in many aspects, there is one thing that makes it really stand apart from the time trackers crowd, and this is an opportunity to track hours for a specific task.

What is it all about?

Let’s say, you manage your activities via Trello (or Asana, Basecamp, Github, Pivotal + more awesome tools on the way).

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The integration allows connecting Trello projects with Everhour ones and completely eliminates the task title copy-pasting routine.

All you need to do is just use a project @mention for reference in the time input line and start typing a task name. No need to go all the way up to the end since relevant title auto-suggestions will appear immediately. Once you’ve picked the right task, you’re all set for time tracking.

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Everhour to Keep Up with Time Tracking in the New Basecamp

Update (20/08/14)! Most recent changes here - https://everhour.com/integrations/basecamp/

On the way to optimizing time tracking with Everhour more and more, we’re always looking at the most popular project management tools as potential integrations. After exploring what our users can benefit from, we have already added such beasts as Trello, GitHub, and Asana to the kit but that’s not where we’re going to stop :)

Our team is happy to announce that from now on Everhour can become a go-to time tracker for numerous Basecamp users as well. Basecamp is a powerful project management solution chosen by millions of people, our own customers included. And we by no means wanted to deprive them of an opportunity for seamless and handy integration with their project activities.

I guess this might be especially big news for those who have switched to the all new version of the tool and experienced the lack of the time tracking feature. We know that some of Basecamp customers even prefer to stick with the Classic app instead of upgrading just because they are afraid to lose the priceless functionality. But that’s not the case any more.

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Everhour Insights: New Calendar

This post is dedicated to our thoughts and plans regarding a new Everhour calendar the concept of which we’ve been mulling over for a while already. We are going to start redoing it shortly and looking forward to your opinion and improvement ideas to help us deliver to-the-point functionality.

As always, let’s start from outlining the poor sides of the current calendar version:

  • as the app was initially created for the internal use only, the calendar is honestly way too focused on our own team’s needs and habits, and doesn’t take into account other possible ways and purposes of using it;
  • the calendar lacks flexibility: it provides you with a set of predefined characteristics like types of events and doesn’t allow any customization;
  • there are no notifications included though it’s a very helpful and sought-after feature.

It makes good sense to have a handy calendar that fits a wide range of users, and that’s exactly what the planned tweaks are aimed at. Take a look.

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Released: Import Your Time Entries Into Everhour

We’ve mentioned lately that we’re planning to implement an opportunity for moving data from other time tracking systems to Everhour. Tada! It all has been finally done and we can’t wait to give you more details.

Before moving straight to the import process, let me explain why this functionality is so useful. Here are the reasons:

  1. First of all, it’s a great and easy way to try out our app without the necessity to set up projects, clients, etc. for the second time. You simply import the data to Everhour to love it or leave it. There is always an opportunity to get back to the tool you’ve been using. No strings attached.

  1. Thanks to the imported data, you get more ground for comparing features and making an informed  decision on whether Everhour fits you or not.

  1. When you deliberately switch to Everhour, all your data will be safe and secure.

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New Version: Asana and Trello Integrations, Better Reports and More

Hooray! We’ve finally released a big and long-awaited Everhour update. We’ve been working on it for a couple of months sharing some of the plans and thoughts with you on the go, and now we are ready and excited to present you the brand-new version that will make your time management process a bigillion times better.

Note: since the added changes are quite huge, we might have missed something trying to make all the cool features live as soon as possible, so don’t be too harsh on us guys :) In case you notice any issues, please let us know via the feedback & support form.

Now let’s get started with listing all the goodies you’re getting with this update.

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Everhour Insights: Asana & Trello Integration

Update (20/08/14)! Most recent integration changes for Asana and Trello.

I hope there is no need to explain what Asana and Trello are. These ultimate task management tools for sharing, planning and organizing work are used daily by tons of people and our team is no exception.

Since Everhour is aimed at helping track time spent on tasks, we thought that it’d be a shame to neglect those two. Right now the only way to “interact” with Asana or Trello activities is by copy-pasting a task name in Everhour and entering the number of hours with no opportunity to generate dedicated time reports. That’s not the way to go :)

Our team has lately been working on syncing with Asana and Trello which will bring the following perks:

  1. Quickly refer to your tasks without manually typing their titles.
  2. Add extra comments to tasks in Everhour to provide an all-round description.
  3. View detailed time stats for any task.
  4. Analyze project time distribution by labels, milestones, status, etc.

A lot has already been done in terms of these integrations and the big update is coming (involving new reports and filters as well).

Connecting with Asana and Trello is a really important step and we’d like the functionality to be smooth, that’s why we are sharing the details with you beforehand. In case we’ve missed something, you may feel free to suggest improvement points for our consideration.

So, this is how it all is going to work.

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Everhour Insights: Updated Filters Section

I’ve mentioned earlier that our team is now busily working on new cooler reports, and while doing that we’ve come up with a brilliant idea to improve report filters as well. Why do we need that? It’s not that we have nothing to do here, there are in fact two good reasons for the tweaks:

  1. In case there are more than 20 company members or projects, you have to deal with a kilometer-long filter section on your reports page which is not handy at all. Hey, Everhour users with bigger teams, you know what I’m talking about, right?

  1. Since we are adding more data grouping options in new reports, we can’t let filters lag behind.

We want to share these enhancement ideas beforehand so that you can give us your first feedback and better understand how the things will work. Let’s get started.

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