One of the biggest changes in Android 8 (Oreo) is a Notification Channels system. Notifications can be split into multiple channels and each channel can be set up by a user. Let's see how it works in aTimeLogger and TimeTrack

There are 3 notification channels: 1. running activity, 2. remind me and 3. goals.

Running activity

Running activity is a notification with timer that is shown when activities are running.

Be careful with notification priority; if you set it to the highest value, then popover will be shown for 3 seconds each time you start the activity.

Remind Me

It's self-explanatory. Utilize notification settings for remind functionality.

Goals

This is the most interesting notification channels.
Goal notification is a notification that is shown when a goal is reached. In the screenshot below there is a separate group for goal notifications. You can create a separate notification for each goal (Note: this is a premium feature).

2. To add a new channel, press on "Edit" and you will see a list of goal notification channels.

4. After the channel setup, go back to the Edit Goal screen and set the channel for goal.

If you want to remove channels in the future - navigate to the channels list from "Edit goal" screen, press on channel you want to delete and then press on "Remove" in the popup.

IOS 12 出现了一个新的特征——“Siri捷径”，它允许任意APP使用Siri。自从Siri出现以来，我就一直在期待这一类的特征。而现在，我很高兴终于在aTimelogger和TimeTrack两款App中引入了Siri捷径。
现在可以实现以下的操作：

• 开始活动
• 停止活动
• 暂停活动
• 继续活动

以下的使用规则在aTimeLogger和TimeTrack中通用

第一步

1. 打开App并开始活动（如发展）
2. 暂停活动
3. 停止活动

第二步

在上面第一步的操作后，以下的捷径就会出现在设置/Siri与搜索里：

• 开始发展
• 停止活动
• 暂停活动
• 继续发展

第三步

到这步还没结束，我们还需要为每一个Siri捷径设定一个短语，短语可以与捷径的名称不相同。例如，你可以设置“我要去睡觉了”作为“开始睡觉”的自定义短语。这样，当你说出“我要去睡觉了”时，Siri就会开始睡觉这一活动的计时。

第四步

完成上面的设置，Siri捷径现在就可以使用了。一旦Siri识别出你的自定义短语，Siri就会运行相应的指令并且显示运行结果。

限制

Siri不能将未经设定的信息传递给app，这也是为什么：

• 不能保存评论
• 要开始或继续某个类别的活动，你必须为每个活动单独创建“开始”和“继续”的捷径

iOS 12 presented a new feature called Siri Shortcuts. It allows using Siri in any application. I've been waiting for this kind of feature since Siri first appeared and now I am pleased to introduce Siri Shortcuts in the apps (both aTimeLogger and TimeTrack)

The following operations are possible now

• start activity
• stop running activity
• pause running activity
• resume activity

The rules below apply both to aTimeLogger and TimeTrack

Step 1

1. Open the app and start activity (e.g Development)
2. Pause the activity
3. Resume the activity
4. Stop the activity

Step 2

After performing the actions specified above in Step 1, the following shortcuts will appear in Settings / Siri & Search:

• Start Development
• Stop activity
• Pause activity
• Resume Development

Step 3

We’re not done yet. We need to assign a phrase for each Siri shortcut. It is unnecessary to use the same phrase as the name of the shortcut. For example, you can say "I'm going to bed" for the "Start Sleep" shortcut and Siri will start Sleep activity when you say this phrase.

Step 4

Limitations

Siri does not pass dynamic information to an app. That's why:

• comments cannot be saved
• you have to create a separate "Start" or "Resume" shortcut for each activity type you are going to start or resume

In TimeTrack 1.6, a new feature has been introduced - "Custom fields" (or just "Fields").

Logged activities contain start and finish times, tags/comment (optionally). Sometimes your records may need to include other important information. Examples are 'Money spent' on Shopping or 'Hourly rate' for Freelance/Consulting. The new 'Custom Fields' feature allows the user to record additional information and then build reports utilizing this additional information.

To use the feature, the user needs to create actual custom fields. Go to the Fields screen on More tab and press on "+" in the top right to see the "Edit Field" screen.

There are 2 types of fields: per duration and per record.

Example of "per duration" field is "Hourly rate". If you are a freelancer and your hourly rate is $20/hour for your services, then you can calculate your earnings and send a report to a customer. Another example is productivity score - you can calculate how productive you are.

An example of the "per record" field is "Money spent". Say, you went shopping and spent $30, then you went home by taxi and paid $10. In total, you spent $40. Other examples: amount of water you drunk, gym achievements such as your pull-up count.

Fields are usually valid for the limited amount of types. After selecting the types you can enter the default values for each of them. If, for example, you usually pay $8 on Transport, enter 8 for Transport type

Now, touch 'Save' in the top right. A new row now appears on "Edit activity" screen

You can enter the value for 'Money spent' in the screen above or the default value is used

Reports

To build a report for a custom field, go to Reports, switch to Field, then select field, date range and types.

After pressing on "Create", you can see Total, Pie and Daily statistics.

The report can also be exported to a CSV file.

You can also view field statistics quickly on the "Field details" screen that is shown if you press on field in the Fields screen

Super productive people strive to make the most out of every single minute. However, concentrating all day is not always possible. Numerous tips on how to stay productive aren’t always helpful. Still there are ways to trick the brain with special techniques that help in training concentration. Pomodoro is one of them. We’ve already told you about its technique here. Now it’s time to learn how to use it on TimeTrack app.

A Quick Setup

Pomodoro in Action

After 4 Pomodoro cycles (set by default) start a long break (20 minutes by default). Configure the number of breaks and their duration according to your preferences in Settings.

The Reset Button stops the current Pomodoro and starts a new timer from scratch. Use it if you were suddenly interrupted (e.g. by a colleague or phone call).

Note that quitting Pomodoro mode doesn’t stop current Pomodoro or Break activity. Stop it by yourself if needed.

Adjust any of the Pomodoro parameters to your preference in Settings: enable/disable Pomodoro, short and long break duration, number of cycles before a long break, select preferable notification and tick sounds.

Statistics

Select the period (a day, week or month) to display Completed, Uncompleted and Total number of Pomodoros within the selected time. Check also

• Average completed a day - the average number of completed Pomodoros within the selected period when Pomodoro was used at least once;
• Average completed duration indicating the average duration of the completed Pomodoros;
• Average break duration.

Daily chart stats display a green number for the completed Pomodoros and a grey number for uncompleted Pomodoros.
The plain green line is your daily Pomodoros goal. Green bars reaching the line indicate how close you are toward reaching your daily Pomodoro goals.

The secret to retaining the highest level of productivity over the span of a work day is not working longer, but working smarter with frequent breaks. Use Pomodoro in TimeTrack app and stay efficient!

We are pleased to introduce our newest version of the best time tracking app in the App Store.
There are a lot of new features which we believe you will really like.

Features

Tag on start (premium)

Type tags (premium)

Now types can also be tagged. A tagged type means that all logs for this type will have type tags. For example, you can tag "useful" and "useless" activities and then see stats for them.

Weekdays for daily goals

You can now select weekdays for daily goals. An example is "daily work" goal - you can now exclude "Saturday" and "Sunday".

Day start

If you finish work or study after midnight, this feature is for you. Statistics will count for your day. Go to Settings, scroll down and change the "Day start" value.

Colored icons (premium)

Year goals

Want to set a goal for the whole year? Now you can!

Improvements

Default type and duration

If you often enter the same time log manually, this small improvement will save your time. You can now set Default type and duration in Settings.

Activity comments can be imported to calendar

When a logged activity is automatically saved to calendar, it is saved with a title equal to the name of the activity type. Now it is possible to save a comment instead. Check "Save comment to calendar" in calendar settings.

Enable/disable groups on activities

In some cases, users need groups only for structured statistics. In the activities tab or in the widget, these users want to see a plain list of types without groups. That is the purpose of this setting.

Set icons per row on activities tab and on widget (premium)

Include groups as separate column in CSV reports

我们很高兴在App Store中推出最新版本的“最佳时间跟踪应用——Timetrack.io”。
这次将有很多新功能，我们相信你会很喜欢。

特征

快速选择标签（会员功能）

如果您需要经常输入标签，这个新功能很适合您。不用每次打开“编辑活动”页面，您可以在活动开始后快速选择标签。

标签类型（会员功能）

现在标签类型也可以被标记。标记的类型意味着此类型的所有日志都将具有类型标签。例如，您可以标记“有用”和“无用”活动，然后查看他们的统计信息。

工作日每日目标

您现在可以选择工作日每日目标。一个例子是“日常工作”的目标 - 你现在可以排除“星期六”和“星期日”。

一天的开始时间

如果你经常午夜完成工作或学习，这个功能就是为你而设。设置好每日开始的时间，你的一天将从那里开始。打开设置，滑动到最底部，就可以设置“每天开始时间”了。

彩色图标（会员功能）

年度目标

想要全年设定一个目标？现在就可以！

改进

默认类型和持续时间

如果您经常手动输入相同的日志，这种小小的改进将节省您的时间。您现在可以在设置中设置默认类型和持续时间。

活动注释可以导入日历

当记录的活动被自动保存到日历时，活动类型将成为日历标题。现在还可以保存一个注释。在日历设置中，选择日历，开启“将活动同步到日历”后，就可以用看到“在日历中保存备注”

启用/禁用活动组

在某些情况下，活动类型分组只是为了看到统计信息，而在活动选项卡或窗口小部件中，这些用户希望看到没有组的简单列表。这就是这个设置的目的。

在活动标签和小部件（会员功能）上设置每行图标

你可以自由的选择屏幕每行显示的活动数量，看看下面两个设置：

在CSV报告中将组作为单独的列

Please note that this is the first version of calendar integration. If you have some ideas or if you find bugs, please share them in Comments or send by email to support@timetrack.io

Finally, calendar integration features are available since version 1.3.

It's useful for the following use cases

Save logged time to calendar

These are the Types that will be posted to Calendar automatically. For example; if you add "Sport", then, after pausing or stopping "Sport", will automatically post the logged time record(s) to "My day" calendar.

Schedule time with timetrack.io

This is Chinese version of the article. Thanks a lot to Han for translation

请注意，这是日历集成功能发布的第一个版本。如果你有某些想法，或者发现了一些Bugs，请在评论中告诉我，或者发邮件至support@timetrack.io

最后，日历集成功能从1.3版本开始启用。

日历集成功能对以下情况非常有用：

想将记录的时间保存在日历中

你选择的这些活动将自动发布到日历中。例如：你添加了“运动”，在暂停或停止“运动”后，这项记录将自动发布到“我的每一天”的日历中去。

使用timetrack.io安排日程

English version of the article is available at http://blog.timetrack.io/version-1-3-features-and-improvements/

自上一个版本发布之后，已有一段时间了。这次我们带来了最新的1.3版本，在1.3版本中，我们加入了新的功能，下面我将简单的介绍，希望你们喜欢这些新功能。

日历功能

标签统计功能（付费用户功能）

标签选择的优化

调用URl方案（付费用户功能）

随着苹果的开放，越来越多的应用开始支持调用“URL方案”。使用URL，你可以启动另一个应该程序，并将参数传递给该应该程序。该程序也会根据参数执行一些操作。例如你调用了 twitter://post?message = timetrack.io，则会显示推特的发推界面（当然，前提是你安装了推特）。timetrack.io现在可以在开始／停止／暂停活动时调用这些URL。要使用这项功能，你需要在“设置”中启用该功能（目前，它在设置的最下面）。

饼状图的优化

新增语言

现在已经有5种语言了：英语，俄语，简体中文，繁体中文和西班牙语。在此之前，Timetrack.io 只能使用系统默认语言。但是在1.3版本中，你可以根据你的需要设置Timetrack.io的语言了，它可以和系统语言一样，也可以和系统语言不一样，完全根据你的需求。

手表应用性能提升和错误修复

现在，Apple Watch应用程序更稳定，更高效，也更快速。

Chinese version of the article is available here

It’s been a while since the last major release version. We hope you'll like the new features introduced in this latest version 1.3.

Calendar integration

Tag statistics*

Tag select improvements

URL scheme calls on start/stop/pause*

After this option is enabled, you can add URL calls for any Activity Type.

Pie chart improvements

Language select

There are 5 localizations: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish. Prior to version 1.3, timetrack.io utilized the language selected in your device’s Settings. Now, with version 1.3, your device’s language selected in Settings and the timetrack.io language of operation within the app can be different.

Watch performance and bug fixes

The watch app is now more stable, more efficient and faster.

This is Chinese version of the article. Thanks a lot to Han for translation

1. 设置默认编辑字段

如果你经常忘记停止活动，这个小技巧将会很有用。通常，“编辑时间默认区域”是“开始时间”。这样在编辑的时候，你需要选择“结束时间”，然后更改时间，再点“保存”。
如果将默认编辑改为“结束时间”，那么，你只需要更改时间，点击“保持”。这样会更快捷。

2. 最小活动持续时间

有时候，我们会点错活动（例如，手误误点了一个活动）。如果不想将误点的活动记入“活动列表”，可以通过设置“最小活动持续时间”。在未达到“最小活动时间”的情况下，活动则不会记录。

3. 新活动的“开始时间”默认为上一个活动的“结束时间”

如果新活动的“开始时间”为上一个活动的“结束时间”，无需按新活动图标，只需要点击“活动”页右上角“+”按钮，就会出现一个编辑页面。其“开始时间”默认为上一个活动“结束时间”。
在历史记录页面中也有一个类似的操作。如果按右上角“+”也会出现一个编辑页面。该时间的“开始时间”为选定范围内前一个活动的“结束时间”。接着，你只需要“选择类别”来确定新活动，调整结束时间，然后保存就可以了。
例如：今天是2016年12月10日。你查看2016年11月的时间记录：最后一条记录为“工作”：11月20日，上午10点-下午7点。如果你点击右上角的“+”，新活动将会有一个新的时间间隔，这个活动的“开始时间”和“结束时间”都是11月20日下午7点。

4. 在2个活动中间插入新活动（付费用户功能）

假设你有两个活动：步行（上午10:00 - 上午10:15），步行（上午10:30 - 上午10:50）。你想在中间插入一个新活动：购物（上午10:15至上午10:30）。有快捷方式可以帮助你。在历史记录页面中选择“步行（上午10:30 - 10:50）”活动，向左滑动，会出现3个按钮，第一个按钮便是“插入”。点击，则会出现“新活动”页面。“新活动”的“开始时间”默认为“上午10:15”，结束时间默认为“下午10:30”。你只需要选择活动类型为“购物”，然后保存即可完成记录。

5. 快速编辑活动

6. 时间交叉问题（付费用户功能）

7. 快速返回当前日／周／月

如果您喜欢经常查看历史，有一个隐藏，但是非常有用的小技巧。再次点击范围类型（日／周／月），能快速返回当前日／周／月。