Projects
Each job for a client with what surrounds it: tasks, hours, budget, invoices, expenses and notes. To know whether it's paying off.
The board#
| Column | What for |
|---|---|
| Active | Work in progress. |
| Paused | Already started, on hold. |
| Completed | Delivered. |
| Quoted | The client hasn't confirmed yet. |
Drag a card to change its status or order. On mobile, press and hold it. To take it to another column, hold it at the edge of the screen for a moment: the board moves to the next one.
- At the top, what's been paid and what's pending this year on confirmed work. Quotes don't count.
- On each card, up to three pending tasks, which you can tick from there.
- Right-click: open, time it, duplicate or delete. The card being timed shows the time.
A project's page#
Details and tasks, hours, invoices and expenses, and notes. Everything is edited in place: click, type and Enter. Figures accept a sum (“2000+500”). ⌘Z undoes.
Not using a module? Right-click it and “Hide”. It comes back from the ⋯ with everything it had.
Identity#
An emoji to recognise it, a colour for its hour bars, the client and the dates.
Budget and rate#
The budget, in any currency, is converted to euros. The hourly rate is the one in Settings → Tax unless you set one for the project.
Tasks#
- Add: type in “New task” and Enter.
- Priority: the dot on the right; each click moves it up a level.
- Reorder: drag; on mobile, press and hold it, then move it. The ✕ on hover deletes it.
- Keyboard: ↑ ↓, Space ticks it, ⌘↑ ⌘↓ moves it, ↩ renames it, ⌫ deletes it.
- Right-click: done or not done, priority, time it (the task becomes the note), duplicate or delete.
Hours#
The total in large type, “of N h” in the verdict's colour (green on track, amber at the limit, red over) and one bar per week. You log them in a single bar: date, hours and what on. The real €/h is behind the i. Right-click an entry to repeat it today, time the same thing again or delete it.
Timer#
With the hours empty, the + in that bar is ▶: press it when you start and ■ when you finish. It logs itself.
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
| Project page | ▶ in the Hours bar; while running, the clock with the note, pause and stop. |
| Sidebar and mobile | A pill with the project and the time so far. Tap it to go to the project. |
| Browser tab | The time and the project (“0:42 · Web Acme”). |
| Board and ⌘K | Right-click the card, or “Time …” in ⌘K. |
| Another device | It keeps running: start it on the Mac and stop it on your phone. |
Stopping logs it on the day it started, to the nearest quarter hour (in Settings, also to the tenth or the minute). Under a minute isn't logged; over ten hours, it asks first. ⌘Z puts it back on pause. One at a time: starting another stops and logs the previous one.
Without an hourly rate there's no profitability to compute: the i takes you to set one.
Linked invoices and expenses#
Each invoice with its status dot and base; each expense with its supplier. The + opens the ones without a project yet; here they're linked, not created. The ✕ unlinks without deleting.
Notes#
A free sheet with formatting: select text and the bar appears, or write in Markdown (“# ”, “- ”, “> ”). Links open with ⌘-click. It saves itself.