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TimeTracker saves each and every invocation of a task. This list is always accessibly through the history. As mentioned previously it is easy to remove single tasks, e.g. if you have started a task accidentally. However, it is also possible to clear the whole history of a task or project at once. When you tap the “Clean” button in the toolbar you are asked for confirmation before TimeTracker actually removes all invocations from the current task or project.

Additionally, it is also possible to remove only invocations which have been recorded in a certain period of time. This can be done by employing the Time Filter feature. For example, if you active the Time Filter to show only the tasks which have been active for the current day and you tap the “Clean” button all invocations in this time frame are removed. All other time entries are untouched. This gives you a more fine grained control about what you remove from the history.

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When you have tracked the time while working on your tasks you soon will get long lists of time entries in the history. If you need to know how much time you have spent in a certain period of time you would have to scroll through the list and sum up the individual times manually. This process would be very cumbersome of course. We thought that we can do better than that.

When we started working on TimeTracker 2 we came up with the concept of a “Time Filter”. With this feature you can easily narrow the list of tracked time entries down to the ones which have been recorded in a certain period of time. The Time Filter can always be activated by tapping the rightmost button in the toolbar which depicts a calendar icon. You can see that the Time Filter is activated when a shiny grey bar moves into the view which contains information about the currently selected time frame.

With the activated Time Filter the list of tasks or time entries only contains the items which have records from the selected period of time. Additionally, the duration for tasks or the total duration for all shown items is updated according to the Time Filter settings, too. Now it is very easy to see how much time was spent on a project during the past week for example.

The “Time Filter” bar at the top of the screen contains left and right arrows. Use these arrows to switch to the previous or next time frame, for example last week or the week before last week. When you tap on the label in the center of the “Time Filter” bar a settings dialog appears which lets you choose from the time period you like to work with. At the moment it is possible to filter the list by days, weeks and months.

If you want to switch back to the full view of items simply tap the “Time Filter” button in the toolbar again and the “Time Filter” bar disappears from the view smoothly.

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TimeTracker manages the tasks you are working on. Additionally, the tasks can be organized in projects. Adding projects and tasks is straight forward: Just tap the “+” button in the toolbar to either add a project or task depending on the type of the current view. Set the name of the project or task and – in case of a task – select the project. That’s it!

Of course it is also possible to edit the properties of a project or task later if you which to do so. Just hit the “Edit” button in the top right corner of the screen. The view switches to the edit mode and you are now able to delete items from the list and rearrage them. If you tab a project or task item a dialog appears which lets you change the name of the item. In case of the task you are also able to switch the project.

Once you are finished with the modifications simply hit the “Done” button in the top right corner and the view switches back to normal mode.

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Recently, we got some questions from users asking if and how it is possible to remove single invocations from the history. First of all, removing single invocations is possible since the first version of TimeTracker which supported a history. However, I have to admit that it might not have been this obvious so far.

Deleting an invocation from the history is as simple as deleting an email from the Mail app. Just swipe your finger over a cell in the history which represents an invocation. The familiar “Delete” button will appear at the right side of the table cell. When you tap this button the invocation is removed from the history.

To make this more obvious in the future we will be providing an “Edit” button on the top right corner in the next version of TimeTracker. Tapping this button will show the familiar “Delete” control at the right side of each invocation cell.

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