Mac users might also want to check out Timepost, a FreshBooks-integrated time-tracking app that also tracks your idle time.

I’ve been wanting something like this since I first used the Start/Stop timer. Thanks!!

Grrr…
Was waiting on the Mac OS X Freshbooks widget for about 4 months now. Turns out that anything less than OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will not work.

So, I have a decision to make. I either need to upgrade to Leopard or not become a customer

And….It’s fixed! Thanks to everyone for their collective patience through this bugridden time.

Thank you, Mr. Burns.

you guys need to port this for yahoo widgets because paying for a widget like timersync sucks…

rob: We do plan to port it around! Consider the Mac users as the guinea pigs, letting us know what Really Counts in a widget like this.

Kyle: It’s actually a matter of not being able to tell the difference via the API. Sorry that it’s different behaviour from the main app. Now that we’re building out, and people are noticing, it lights a fire for us to get a move on enhancing the API. Thanks for the feedback!

I run a Mac consulting firm in CT, and it would be nice to have my technicians log their hours via the widget. As it sits now, the widget is global and doesn’t allow the time tracking of specific staff. If the login was the user name and password instead of the API token that would make more sense in the “staff” scenario. As a single user the API is fine.
Additionally, only the projects assigned to a staff member would appear in the widget to make the list shorter.

While writing this response, I’ve come up with a Mac, Leopard 10.5 solution. I’ve made a web clip of the Start/Stop timer. This works brilliantly. As long as a staff member is logged in to freshbooks via a browser (perhaps Safari only have not tested with firefox), You can use the start/stop as a widget and get all projects relative to your staff account.

You also need to UNcheck the “Play sound only in Dashboard” as the timer will stop when you hide the webclip if you leave this box checked.

But keep working on that widget! Better yet, how bout an iPhone webapp that’s a timer!

Jeremy

ah yes, was not so thorough in my testing. Seems the webclip will not refresh after a restart or logout. One must Check and UNCheck the “Only Play Audio in Dashboard” as it seems to reload from the web by doing that.
Not perfect but nice for those with Staff.

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Jeremy: Yeah, unfortunately we don’t have Staff support in the API yet. When that comes out, you can expect the widget to support Staff access!

Jonathan: Just click on the time readout to edit the value. It’s not quite as straightforward as a single reset button, but it definitely does the job (without cluttering the interface).

That’s cool, but: selecting and deleting the whole time entry (including “:”s) results in a glitched readout (NaN:NaN:NaN). Pressing Start afterwards doesn’t do anything. A further click re-zeroes it, though. Not a big deal, for sure, just bringing it to your attention.

Yeah, unfortunately we don’t yet have a method for staff members to generate their own unique API tokens and interact with the system. It’ll require some pretty major changes; that said, it’s coming. Just not tomorrow, unfortunately.

I’ve just uploaded version 1.0.2 of the widget. That should fix the NaNs and make & show up properly in task and project names.

Guh, sorry to report another problem, but:

After I submit hours, and the widget is both zero’d and not active, if i come back say 1 hour later and invoke Dashboard, the widget will be running, and showing the time since last invoke.

Ouch! Ok, I managed to reproduce this one now. Nice edge case!

Hello Kristin! I haven’t seen that before. What version of the widget are you using? There were a couple of issues with 1.0.0 in Tiger which were patched up quickly.

The most recent release is 1.0.3, which just came out this morning. If it’s causing problems, I’ll definitely take a closer look. Thanks!

Has anyone else notice that the freshbooks widget is using a lot of CPU? when I remove it the problem goes away. If I reinstall, after a few hours the problem is back. It’s possible that the problem only arises after I sleep my macbook, but I haven’t confirmed that yet.

Thanks for the great widget!

Wow. You are awesome. Thank you so very much.

Hi guys – any E.T.A. update on when a new API with support for using desktop widgets for staff is coming? We are just in the process of setting up an integrated Freshbooks/Basecamp combo and for me the selling point on the Freshbooks piece was the sexy timetracking widget that might mean I can finally get my whole team on board with a simple, elegant time tracking solution. Woe is me to discover that I can currently only dump all hours into one user id. I see from earlier posts that it wasn’t a “tomorrow” kind of thing as of March, but if you can give any guidance on whether this is weeks, months or years out, it would be very helpful.

Even though mostly I love the widget, there is a very annoying “but” about it. Every time I restart or shutdown and start my computer it reloads the time with the last time I submitted. This forces me to go into my Freshbooks account, click on Reports > Timesheet Details, generate a report for that project to see if I did or not submit that time. Very annoying! You can’t be too careful with finances and time logging. So, please fix this issue! I would really appreciate it.

Cheers!

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I’ve got the latest version (1.05), but sometimes keep the timer running by accident. Is there a way to reset it or edit the time before sending it off?

Can you please add an idle tracker to this? Please, Please? At least make the timer stop when you computer goes idle.