It’s been a long road, but we are now almost ready to launch Time Doctor. We’re planning on the paid launch some time in January.
So this post will give you an update of how much it will cost and what is going on with the software.
How much will it cost?
The pricing can be found on the pricing page here, however there will be a discount available to beta customers.
The new desktop version
There have been three main versions of the Time Doctor desktop version. In case you are still on an older version, I want to introduce the new version which is currently on version number 2.1.8. This is how it looks:
What is new with this version?
- – It’s super fast and easy to use
- – It provides a simple way to edit time. So now there are just two categories of time, “On computer” and “Edited” time. This is a much needed simplification compared with the previous versions. It makes it a lot easier when you are away from the computer.
- – There is a window that pops up when you were away from the computer to track the time when you were away. This make it much easier to use for people that are going away from their computer constantly. This feature is optional however it should definitely be turned on for people in an office situation. For teams working from home, admins might want to turn this feature off if team members spend all their time on the computer. It can be turned on or off from the “manage users” page.
What’s different about this version is that it does not have the complete task management features that were present in version 1.3. This might be a disappointment for some people who really enjoyed the task management aspects. We are developing an improved version of the 1.3 software that we plan on releasing into 2012, however task management and project management is not the main focus of Time Doctor. We’re focused on making Time Doctor the best time tracking software on the planet, and this smaller version is more in line with that vision. We welcome feedback from you on this new version.
Coming soon:
- – It will soon integrate with many different project management applications such as Basecamp and Jira.
- – We’re improving the way that you allocate tasks to projects, to make it super-easy to allocate tasks to the correct project.
- - We’re providing language support initially for Russian and then several other languages.
Project management, Task Management and Time Doctor
We have decided to focus Time Doctor on time tracking only and move away from Project management and Task management.
There are a large number of very good project management applications which you can find in this article. Some of them are even totally free.
We decided that it’s probably not a good idea to create another project management app as there are too many good options, and instead are planning on integrating with all the major project management apps. This means that you can choose a project management application that works well for your team and then use Time Doctor for the time tracking component, to add accurate time tracking for the tasks in your project management system.
We are focused on making Time Doctor the best time tracking application in the world. What does this mean? It means that you track activities, you know that the time tracked was accurate and you can use this tracked time to evaluate your own performance or the performance of a team, or to pay employees based on accurate hours worked.
By right clicking, you can now select from some basic options for each task, in future you’ll probably see some more options here depending on feature requests.
Time Doctor is not only a task management tool that tracks time spent on your tasks, it’s also a valuable productivity tool which can help you see how any worker spends their time on the computer. Time spent browsing, checking email, and the types of software people use on a day-to-day basis is all available at your finger tips. This is just one of many cool new features we’ll be rolling out in the coming weeks.
“I run a call center where I research commercial properties all over the world….Before TimeDoctor, I had no way of tracking my employees that worked from home. Now, I see when they are working and when they aren’t. It has improved my company’s productivity by more than 25%!” 