We’re always tweaking Tiktrac, and we welcome any ideas you have in our forum. One thing people often ask for is a timer, so Tiktrac can count the minutes for you as you work. So I took it upon myself to dedicate the entire weekend to adding this feature.

Tasks on the homepage and on sheets now have a play/pause button:

Once a task has been completed, a little tick is displayed:

While I was there, I improved the sheet configuration, based on forum suggestions. You can now select which fields you want displayed in a sheet:

This can be useful for people who don’t want the ‘ref’ field, or when you’re tracking a time for a project that only has one person and don’t require the ‘who’ field.
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Take a look at this screenshot from a new application I’m building:

This is a pet project of mine, started two weeks ago. It combines some of the technology we implemented in Multitap and Ebiwrite to produce something pretty unique. And no, it’s not another to-do list app!

Like all our projects, it has an API, mobile support and an element of fun. Unlike our other projects, which are aimed at small businesses, this one is aimed squarely at you!

If you want to get in on my little secret, contact us. The software has left my London apartment and landed on our servers—I’ve been using it every day since I initially created it. There’s a few important things missing yet, however!

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I’m still working hard on that pet project I mentioned a few days ago. Before I can unleash it, there’s a bit of work left to do on documentation and tidying things up. This project embodies a few concepts that we hope to add to other Helicoid products, which you can see illustrated in this screenshot:

That’s running straight off the development version, and gives you a few clues as to what we’re attempting to do. As I said in my last post, I’m actually using this day-to-day, and it’s pretty great! I can’t wait to release it to beta testers, and I’ll give you details on that through this weblog.

Meanwhile… This weekend could be the date Tiktrac finally gets a different type of view on the sheet page: I’ve been working on expanding it beyond monthly views. This is another step towards a production-ready version!

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I’ve just finished deploying and testing the new features for Tiktrac that I’ve been working on over the last two weeks:

• It’s now possible to view all tasks for a sheet, or use the traditional monthly view.
• Task descriptions now accept textile, so you can format your descriptions with simple markup.
• Several fixes for IE6.

Here’s a screenshot of how the new sheet view looks:

The view change has actually simplified the Tiktrac’s internal code dramatically—this was a good chance for me to refactor things. The upshot of this for you is that it’s now much easier for me to add other views to the sheets page, so get in touch if you have any ideas!

Incidentally, the screenshot was taken in Linux, because we like to test our products in Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

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I hate to be a tease, so I promise this is the last teaser screenshot of our new product:

The product is Helipad, and it was inspired by my love of these little things:

A hardy notepad can go everywhere with you, can you can customise it beyond belief. People come up with their own annotation and organisation systems, with complete freedom to change their mind at any time.

I’ve tried using a few web-based personal organisers systems over the last few years, but I always end up ditching my laptop and using the humble notepad. However, I constantly feel as if I need a digital cousin for my paper tools—something that would let me write notes, to-do lists and categorise them with my own tagging schemes.

Helipad lets me do all of this and more: I can view notes on my phone with the mobile version, download notes using the API to work offline—I can even integrate my existing software with it! It even lets me colour tags (obviously I set the “important” tag to red!), and g…

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