After a bit of silence we are back with good news. Version 1.1.0 is out Today and we added a great new feature to TimeGT. All Hedgehog package users can now sync their tasks with Google Calendar. It’s perfect time for keeping track of Your New Year’s resolutions.

New Features!

TimeGT syncs all of your tasks that have either Start or Due date (or both) assigned to them with Google Calendar. Also it fetches all nonrepeating tasks that you have already made there. Enable the feature only on those computers you wan’t to connect to Google.

Improvements

• Implemented preferences
  
• Added remember me functionality.
  
• Improved entering tasks. Insert button is now used for task insertion only. Projects and tags can be added with popup menu or toolbar button.
• Inserting new tasks with filters is much smoother. Newly inserted tasks stay for a time and let some changes applied to them and they don’t just “disappear” only because they don’t suit current filtering. Configure an appropriate “grace period” in the Preferences.

Bugfixes.

• Made Start and Due dates focus more visible.
• Drag and Drop no longer causes hanging in Linux.
• TimeGT now works with systems where systray has been disabled.

So Happy Christmas and enjoy your Life even more with a little help from TimeGT!

We are so excited about getting the first TimeGT reviews! Thanks!!

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Today we released TimeGT version 1.0.4. There are two new features and some other improvements I’d like to tell you about.

New Features

• Expand Project Tree for Selected Task.
  Enabling this feature will expand project tree so your currently selected tasks project will become visible.
  
• New tasks that end with ! are automatically marked as Important and tasks ending with !! are marked Urgent and Important.

Improvements

• Fixed systrays erratic behaviors.
• Increased projects, tasks and tags font size.
• Fixed an encoding issue where some characters where shown as ?? or squares.

TimeGT team is looking for help from some english-speaking community members. Yes, you don’t want to hear our accent:P Please contact dev@timegt.com if you are interested in doing a video narration for our getting started video!

In exchange for helping us we are more than happy to give you ~10 years of Hedgehog package.
US native preferred!

TimeGT Getting Started video

Small Improvements:

• Sync outgoing changes status is more precise.
• Added grace period for task completion, so task doesn’t disappear instantly once completed.
• Task info tag editor respects archived tags.
• Undo works for changes coming over Sync.
• Unsets “In progress” flag when clicked on Complete.

Getting Started video

Today we added Google Groups for TimeGT discussions and announcements.

Please see following links for subscribe options:

• All discussions related to TimeGT, task management etc.
• Announcement read-only list for important messages (new releases, scheduled maintenance etc)

Everyone is more than welcome to join and share your thoughts!

New tasks have a grace period for filters

In previous versions all task filters were applied immediately. As a result, for some cases newly created or just modified tasks will disappear due to filter restrictions.

To avoid confusion and give user more freedom we added a feature called “grace period” — your tasks will remain in the list for some time so you have plenty of time to react and have a better overview. The grace period is applied to changes in tasks, projects, timings and tags.

Added two more properties: Completed (for completing tasks) and Urgent.

Urgent combined with already-existing “Important” property gives a nice combination to decide about your next actions without setting any date or time. Simply flag all tasks as important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent and you’ll have 4 sets of tasks — and you better start with urgent and important first!

Improved Log In process

Log in process is refactored for better stability while using at unreliable networks.

Added more sorting option

We added special sorting options to the View menu. There are five available sorting options, most notable is sorting by Created Date. Please note that sort by created date can be applied only from this menu item (there is no such column in task list).

Other improvements

• In addition to incoming changes we now also show outgoing changes
• Improvements to shortcut for creating New tasks. Tasks are now created through quick insert field (previously, it was also possible to create them in the table).
• Task notes size limits removed.
• Fixed Linux launch scripts so they can be executed from anywhere.

 
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TimeGT is now launched and available for public use! Please download and have fun!

More info about features and knowledge base is still in progress so to the best way is to learn by yourself and ask your friends and community.

For a brief intro: TimeGT is built to make your notes and tasks handling much easier and more accessible.

TimeGT is far from being fully final and polished. And it will never be. But we are working very hard together with the users making sure our simple promises are kept!

TimeGT thrives to make a strong paradigm shift when it comes to managing and accessing your data. More specifically:

Accessibility

All user changes to the data are automatically sent to the server as journal entries for backup and remote access purposes.

If you have multiple clients open then changes will appear at other clients immediately. It is up to you if you want to load those incoming changes right away or later.

You can always make your local backups that are stored as XML files so you can process them any way you want.

Currently we support Windows, Linux and Mac clients. Later this can be moved also to web and mobile. But we will never weaken the security to make the data accessible at the server.

Import all your Remember The Milk tasks into TimeGT to see how it works (from File-Import-RTM).

Security

Whenever your information leaves your computer it will be encrypted with strong RSA 512. Only you have access to the private-public keypair.

Your password is never sent to the server, only SHA 512 hash made from username, password and random salt combination will be used for validating at the server.

Currently for user convenience public-private keypair is stored as JKS keystore in server protected with your password. This can be later changed to improve security but then user needs to start carrying his own key file instead of password.

Next Goals

Support sharing tasks between users (while keeping information securely encrypted).

Support connectors for accessing 3rd party information (GMail, Google calendar, JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla etc)

Support more clients for accessing and/or entering new tasks (Web, Symbian, Android, iPhone)

Have fun and feel free to post your feedback and comments right here to this post!