TimeSprite 2.0 Beta

I am very relieved to finally have the TimeSprite 2.0 beta available. A number of people have been asking when TimeSprite was going to be updated, and I really didn’t think it was going to be this long.

My original plan was to release version 1.1 before working on version 2, but when I looked at the features I was planning for each I decided it made more sense to combine them all into 2.0. In hindsight, that was probably a mistake - the version 2 features (the journal, timesheets etc.) ended up being much more work than I thought. It wasn’t all bad though - late in the testing for 2.0 I did find a big problem with the way I implemented grouping by process, which had been one of the key updates planned for 1.1. I’m kind of glad that didn’t make it out into the world.

My main aim with version 2 was to make the program more useful. The information collected by version 1 was interesting, but using it for something like a timesheet was a manual process. Version 2 now allows you to create timesheets directly, and copy and paste to applications like Excel or save them to CSV files. You can also add notes to the time records.

To see more about the changes in version 2, see: http://www.timesprite.com/News/V2Beta.html