Comments on: Feeling the Mac Love From Freshbooks

By: Ronin: The Wandering Warrior of Invoicing Web Apps?

Ronin: The Wandering Warrior of Invoicing Web Apps? — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:01:41 +0000

[...] that gets the job done quickly and easily, and can be accessed remotely from any computer. FreshBooks is still probably a more attractive option for most, but Ronin offers another option worthy of [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Bits and Bytes: FreshBooks, Zapproved, GatherGrid «

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:01:00 +0000

[...] inbox is that FreshBooks now has a free time tracking app for the iPhone. I was excited about their desktop widget for the Mac way back when, but frankly, I haven’t used it. Even their pop out time tracker on their site [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive FreshBooks Provides Benchmark Data for Business Owners «

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:51 +0000

[...] 14th, 2008 (10:00am) Aliza Sherman No Comments I’m a big fan of FreshBooks. I’ve written about and have used their easy Web-based accounting services site almost daily to manage my [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Archive It’s Easier Than You Think to be a Green Web Worker «

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:00:31 +0000

[...] with clients? Check out online invoicing. We’ve covered FreshBooks before, and other online invoicing options include PayPal’s request money feature [...]

By: Taavi Burns

Taavi Burns — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:15:02 +0000

Just to be clear, the widget allows you to start, stop, and edit your time and modify the notes field when you’re not on the ‘net. To do the initial load of projects and tasks, and to actually submit time, you naturally need an internet connection. :)

It also can’t tell when you’re away from the computer, as Dashboard widgets are really supposed to be out of your CPU’s mind when they’re off the screen. Other apps like Timepost advertise support for detecting when you’re not at the keyboard.

That being said, you can always click on the time readout to edit the value, for those times when you forget to start or stop at the appropriate time!

But you can start up as many widgets as you like when online, then be on the road and update them for later submission. The widget saves changes regularly, so they will survive reboots and crashes.

We’re really glad we could provide this widget to the community, and hope to widen it to other widget mechanisms in the future, so please let us know what you think!

(and thanks for the linkback, Aliza!)

By: Charlie Gilkey

Charlie Gilkey — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:14:41 +0000

I just briefly mentioned that online trackers were bad about not giving a way to track offline behavior. I should have said that even desktop timers (Slife, RescueTime) don’t have ways to track time spent away from the computer, either. So this makes Freshbooks all the better.

By: cgilkey1

cgilkey1 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:11:41 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I’ve been trying to find a timing solution that works for me, and a lot of the online trackers neglect to have a way of tracking offline work. This is great!