v1.13.0

📦 v1.13.0 – 1 Year of TimeScribe 🎉

TimeScribe turns one year old today! 🥳
Exactly one year ago, version 1.0 was released — and what a journey it has been.

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this project and to all of you using TimeScribe every day. ❤️
To celebrate the occasion, TimeScribe now comes with a special birthday app icon 🎂

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✨ New Features

• 📦 WinGet support (Windows)
  TimeScribe is now officially available via the Windows Package Manager (WinGet) and can be installed directly from there.

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🛠 Improvements

• 📊 Enhanced project view
  Time entries in the project view now also display their time range and notes. #95
• ⌨️ Extended shortcut support
  Function keys (F-keys) are now supported when configuring keyboard shortcuts. #76

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: On macOS, no app icon was shown in the Dock when opening the main window.
  This has now been resolved. #96
• Fix: Various minor UI issues have been addressed.

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Thank you for being part of the journey — here’s to many more releases to come! 🚀

v1.12.0

📦 v1.12.0 – Project Insights & Export Enhancements

This release improves project transparency and enhances the export workflow with additional flexibility and usability improvements.

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✨ New Features

• 📊 Project breakdown in overview (#90)
  A new popup next to the total working time in the overview now shows a detailed breakdown of tracked time per project.
• 🏷️ Project metadata support (#86)
  You can now define custom metadata for each project.
  These metadata fields can also be included in exports.

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🛠 Improvements

• 📄 Export preferences remembered
  The selected paper format and orientation are now saved and reused for future exports.
• 🎨 Minor UI refinements for a cleaner and more consistent experience.
• 🔒 Security and framework updates to keep TimeScribe up to date.

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Thanks to everyone who continues to suggest improvements and contribute ideas! 🙌

v1.11.0

📦 v1.11.0 – Powerful Exports, Deep Links & New Language

This release significantly expands the export functionality, introduces a new deep-link API, and adds Danish language support — alongside various improvements and fixes.

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✨ New Features

• 📤 Extended export functionality (big thanks to @tarraq !) (#77, #79)
  The export feature has been heavily enhanced and now includes:
  • Export as PDF
  • Selectable date range for exports
  • Filters for projects and work/break time
  • Customizable table columns (show/hide and reorder)
  • Dynamic file names based on selected filters and date range
• 🔗 New deep-link API (#74)
  The timer can now be started and stopped via deep links using
  timescribe://... (see Deep-Link API)
• 🇩🇰 Danish language support
  TimeScribe is now available in Danish.
  Many thanks to @tarraq for the contribution!

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🛠 Improvements

• 🎨 Minor UI refinements across the app.
• 🔒 Security updates have been applied.
• 📂 More reliable opening of Finder / Windows Explorer windows.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: The fly-timer button always received auto-focus after opening the menu bar.
  This behavior has now been corrected.

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Huge thanks to all contributors and the community for making this one of the biggest updates so far! 🙌

v1.10.1

📦 v1.10.1 – Day Overview Fix

This patch release fixes a regression introduced in v1.10.0 that affected the day overview.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: In v1.10.0, the “Add Time” buttons were no longer visible in the day overview.
  This issue has now been resolved and the buttons are displayed correctly again.

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Thanks to everyone who reported this regression so quickly! 🙌

v1.10.0

📦 v1.10.0 – Better Overtime Insights & Timeline Improvements

This release brings powerful new tools to better understand and manage overtime, improves timeline interactions, and includes important stability fixes.

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✨ New Features

• ⏸️ Create breaks via drag & drop:
  Breaks can now be added directly in the timeline by clicking and dragging. #53
• 📊 Weekly overtime & balance view:
  A new view shows overtime and working time balance per week, making it easier to keep track of your accumulated hours. #68
• 📅 Adjust work time balance at a reference date:
  The work time balance can now be set, increased, or decreased at a specific reference date. #68
• 🧹 Merge consecutive entries:
  Consecutive work or break entries can now be merged to keep the daily overview clean and more readable.

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🛠 Improvements

• 🎨 Minor UI refinements for a cleaner and more consistent experience.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Work and break entries were not always displayed as consecutive when less than one minute passed between recordings.
• Fix: Under certain conditions, the application could run into errors due to insufficient memory allocation for the process.

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Thanks to everyone in the community for your feedback and ideas — they continue to shape TimeScribe with every release! 🙌

v1.9.0

📦 v1.9.0 – Project Insights, Billing Improvements & New Language

This release significantly improves project tracking and billing workflows, adds a detailed project view, and introduces a new language thanks to a community contribution.

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✨ New Features

• 📊 Project detail view:
  Projects now have a dedicated detail view showing all tracked hours at a glance. #66
• 💰 Detailed cost breakdown:
  Projects with an hourly rate now provide a detailed cost breakdown of tracked time. #66
• ✅ Mark time entries as paid:
  Time entries assigned to billable projects can now be marked as paid. #67
• 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese language support:
  TimeScribe is now available in Brazilian Portuguese.
  Big thanks to @gilmarodp for the contribution! 🙌 #69

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🛠 Improvements

• 📤 Enhanced exports:
  Hourly costs are now broken down per time entry in CSV and Excel exports.
• 🧾 Cleaner exports for non-billable entries:
  Time entries without a billable project no longer include a currency field in exports.

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❤️ New Sponsor

• A warm welcome and thank you to @anatoliy-t7 for sponsoring the project!

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Thanks to all contributors, translators, and sponsors for continuing to support and improve TimeScribe! 🙌

v1.8.0

📦 v1.8.0 – Italian Language Support & Stability Improvements

This release adds support for Italian, includes small refinements across the app, and fixes a UI freeze in the activity view.

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✨ New Features

• 🇮🇹 Italian language support: TimeScribe is now available in Italian. #63
  A big thanks to @LoackyBit for the contribution! 🙌

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🛠 Improvements

• ⚙️ Minor improvements and optimizations across the application.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: Selecting a date range in the activity view could cause an error and freeze the UI.
  This issue has now been resolved.

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Thank you to everyone who contributes translations, reports issues, and helps make TimeScribe better with every release! ❤️

v1.7.0

📦 v1.7.0 – Freelancer Mode Improvements & Smarter Menu Bar Controls

This release focuses on improving the freelancer experience, adding more keyboard-driven workflows, and delivering noticeable performance and UI refinements.

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✨ New Features

• ⌨️ Menu bar project list shortcut:
  A dedicated keyboard shortcut can now be configured to open the project list directly from the menu bar.
• 🧑‍💻 Optimized freelancer mode UI:
  The user interface has been streamlined for users working without a fixed work schedule.

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🛠 Improvements

• ⏱️ Overtime handling without a work plan:
  Overtime is no longer calculated or displayed when no work schedule is configured.
• 📊 Cleaner graphs for freelancer mode:
  Charts now only display work and break times when no work schedule is present.
• ⚙️ Reduced CPU usage through internal performance optimizations.
• 🎨 macOS scrollbar styling:
  Scrollbars have been visually refined to better match macOS design.
• 🚀 Faster menu bar updates:
  The menu bar display now updates more quickly when starting or stopping the timer.

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: The visual menu selection highlighted the wrong menu item.
• Fix: The project display in the floating timer was not updated correctly in sync.

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Thanks to everyone in the community for the continued feedback and ideas — they directly shape releases like this one! 🙌

v1.6.0

📦 v1.6.0 – Custom Keyboard Shortcuts & Improved Menu Bar Tracking

This release introduces customizable keyboard shortcuts for faster time tracking and fixes an issue where the menu bar display updated incorrectly and sluggishly.

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✨ New Features

• ⌨️ Custom keyboard shortcuts:
  You can now set your own shortcuts for starting/stopping work time and beginning/ending break time.
  Perfect for users who want to track their time without leaving the flow. #3 #27

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix: The work/break time shown in the menu bar window updated incorrectly and reacted very slowly.
  This issue has now been resolved, and the displayed times update immediately and accurately.

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Thanks for all the feedback that helped shape this update — keep it coming! 🙌

v1.5.1

📦 v1.5.1 – Critical Fix for Editing Time Entries

This update primarily addresses a critical issue that prevented users from editing their time entries.
Alongside this fix, we've also improved performance and backup stability.

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🐛 Critical Bug Fix

• Fix: Editing time entries caused a 500 error #59 #60
  Users were unable to modify existing time entries due to a server-side error.
  This issue has now been fully resolved and editing works as expected again.

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🛠 Improvements

• ⚡ Improved render performance: Scrolling is now smoother and more responsive.
• 💾 More reliable backup restores: Backups are applied with higher stability and fewer edge-case failures.

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Thank you to everyone who reported this issue so quickly — your feedback ensures TimeScribe stays reliable and smooth to use! 🙌