Posts Tagged ‘Time Management’

LazyCure 3.7 - a bunch of new features

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Congratulate you on new wave of quality and simplicity which LazyCure 3.7 brings to us! It contains a set of improvements and new features, comparing with 3.6 version.

New features:

  • Subtasks. Select menu Show->Task Manager and create a tree of projects/tasks/tags/areas which you want to use for grouping activities during analyzing your time logs.
  • Possibility to customize hot-key. Now you can use not only Ctrl+F12 but any imaginary combination of keys in order to activate LazyCure window and fix activity switch. Works only in Windows, but if you know how to do it in other OS, I’m appreciate your comment. In order to customize hot-key, go to menu Options and press button ‘…’ under ‘Hot key to activate:’ text.
  • Split activities by comma (’,'). This is the feature which I love very much, because it helps me to save a lot of seconds and make time logging process more enjoying. When I forgot or didn’t have an ability to mark activity switch, I specify all activities in one ‘Now you..’ text field via comma and press ‘Done!’ After that the magic happens - each activity appears in time log separately with time equally spitted up. It is not too much accurate, but if I don’t remember actual time of switch activities (or even if I was doing all of them simultaneously), it is accurate enough. And more important - it is very fast.
  • Possibility to disable option to switch time log at midnight. Automatic switch time log at midnight is a useful feature, if you practice continuous time logging, like Russian scientist Lyubishchev. But if you log only the current day and it ends after midnight, it is useful to turn off automatic switch at midnight in order to keep all activities in one place. So now we have an option.
  • Possibility to close TimeLog Editor, Summary, Task Manager by ESC. All for the sake of speed :).
  • Possibility to copy data via context menu from Time Log Editor and Activities Summary. Possibility to copy data via Ctrl+C and paste, e.g. in Excel, was always in LazyCure, but nobody knew about it. Now it is possible to do via context menu + small additional improvements of data representation in clipboard.
  • Possibility to rename activities on Activities Summary. The feature I was dream about for years. Record activity with mistake, record the same activity without mistake, then go to activities summary, rename misprinted activity - and see the magic.

+ fixes of the following bugs:

  • An exception when invalid time is entered on Efficiency tab.
  • An exception when activity is longer than 64 symbols on mouse over tray icon.
  • Post to twitter is not working.

Quality of LazyCure 3.7 release is proved by 303 green unit tests.

Enjoy!

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LazyCure 3.5 - twitter with your time

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I’m glad to announce LazyCure 3.5 release! This release brings additional enchancements, which makes time logging even simplier and faster. Here they are:

  • LazyCure could be minimized by pressing ‘ESC’ on main window.
  • Main window is opened in the same position as it was before closing LazyCure.
  • Minimize to tray on pressing ‘X’.
  • Activity is switched when computer is locked.
  • Button ‘Show Time Log’ added to ‘Efficiency’ tab.
  • Two different settings for number of activities showed in tray and number of activities in history.
  • After Ctrl-F12 program stays inactive if was visible before.

And thats not all! Welcome grand new feature - Post To Twitter! If you have an accound on Twitter.com and/or would like sometimes to share with your friends what you are doing or have just done - you will appreciate this. LazyCure could be configured in such a way, that after pressing ‘Done!’ button activity name will be posted to Twitter.

In order to activate Post to Twitter functionality, you have to following the following steps:

  1. Go to Options->Twitter, check on checkbox and specify your username/password.
  2. When you enter activity name on the main window, check ‘post to Twitter’ checkbox and press ‘Done!’
  3. Do something good for yourself - your activity is posted to Twitter :)

I have to say that you should use this feature just for fun - it is not necessary to notify the whole world about every your activity. So this feature is turned off by default. But as for me, I have it turned on, so if I would like to share my great achivements, I definitely click on checkbox before pressing ‘Done!’ ;).

By the way, you can follow me at Twitter.com/Scorpibear. Oh, and the latest LazyCure could be taken from LazyCure Free Download page.