jTimeSched

jTimeSched is a cross-platform tool that allows you to track elapsed time for tasks and projects and use the data for the recording of time worked.

Features:

• Appealing GUI with great usability
• Create as many tasks/projects as you want with one single click
• Tracks elapsed time for a working day and displays overall time
• Times can be set manually
• A task can be started by a single click on start/pause icon
• A task can be deleted by a double click
• Tasks can be categorized by color
• Tasks can be sorted by title, category, date created, time overall, time today or current state
• System tray support
• Hide window on closeDouble click on tray-icon shows/hides windowDifferent Tray-icons for running/paused stateTray-icon tooltip-message with information about currently running tasks
• Status label with information such as number of tasks, overall/today time of all tasks
• Restore previous window size, position and sorted column on start
• Data and configuration are stored per directory which allows having multiple configurations and running off a USB-Stick

What is new in this release:

• show time-quota on mouse-mouse over overall/today cell
• indicate present quota by a little blue dot in cell
• automatically un-check projects on today-time-reset
• ampersand-character in project-title not shown in tray-tooltip (Windows)
• new application icon (different sizes) and more distinguishable icon when inactive
• moved resource files (graphics) into JAR
• fixed jTimeSched.exe-launcher for 64-bit systems
• better error messages when projects/settings fail to load

What is new in version 1.0:

• fixed inserting a new project with shortcut key when no table row selected
• date of creation can now be edited
• option for removing and color-reset all entries
• added quota option for time today and overall
• additional notes for a project
• added a log area, which visibility can be toggled

What is new in version 0.9:

• The active task can be started/paused via the tray menu.
• There are now some keyboard shortcuts for common actions.
• The general purpose checkboxes can be set/unset via a context menu.
• Java application launchers were added for UNIX-like OS and Windows.
• A bug was fixed where projects were not saved on an abrupt shutdown.

What is new in version 0.8:

• Fixed: save project data as UTF-8 no matter what encoding is set by system locale

What is new in version 0.7:

• when a project is running, set different window icon as well
• added icons for custom/reset-color buttons
• added additional column with multi-purpose checkbox
• implemented logging of project changes
• save runtime-file in separate directory
• save/load projects as XML instead of using java serialization
• implemented highlighting of rows by keyword

What is new in version 0.6:

• fixed: adjust time-overall when manually setting time-today
• category chooser: - changed available colors; - added option for choosing custom color
• fixed possible loss of data: installed shutdown-hook for saving projects

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment