How effective is your to-do list? Does it help you to plan your day? Are you completing all of your tasks more efficiently with a to-do list? With a to-do list, you can accomplish all of your tasks on time and never forget anything important. In addition, by prioritizing your tasks, you can complete them on the due date. Task management is quite essential as it lets you beat the work overload, get more organized and face less stress.

This release adds File Links, a feature where you can link files to a project from within FreelanceStation for easy access while working. How this works is very simple. You drag your files to your project or you add them from the File Links inspector in the sidebar. This makes centralising your work on FreelanceStation convenient. Then to open a file you can select it in the inspector and click the Open button, or double click on the list of File Links.

This release fixes a couple subtle bugs, but most importantly, it adds time rounding and coalescing. With rounding enabled, when you create a new invoice or estimate, each labour item taken from a task will have its duration rounded according to the selected rounding rule (configured from Preferences). With coalescing enabled, after a task is stopped, the adjacent time entries are merged into one if the time distance between them is less than the configured cut-off.

I just published an update for PopDo that fixes some reported issues related to the use of NSPopover for the main window. The thing with NSPopover is that it wasn’t really made for opening from an NSStatusItem in the menu bar. I had considered moving the implementation from the popover to a normal window for some time, but finally decided to do it after a bug report from a user that collected several issues related to the use of the popover.

This release marks the beginning of the new versioning scheme I’m going to be using from now on for all my products. There are some improvements explained in the release notes, but other than that it’s mostly a bug fix release.

Going from SemVer to CalVer Lately I have been pondering over the idea of switching my products’ versioning scheme from the typical SemVer to CalVer. The reasons for doing so have to do with the way I prefer to develop and release software: incrementally. It is very common in SaaS products to ship incremental features and fixes instead of bundling every change in a single patch. I don’t think this methodology is wrong for desktop or mobile products.

I just released the first version of LunarSight. LunarSight is an iOS app that shows the most accurate and relevant Moon parameters, a monthly ephemeris and a calendar.   It is mostly an MVP right now, but I plan to extend the feature set to also include charts and both 2D and 3D maps. If there is enough interest from users, I will also develop a proper Mac version with possibly more features than the mobile version.

MacOS Big Sur has arrived and it has a new style for table views. This new style makes rows taller and also adds some space to each row, insetting them. While you may like your app to adopt this look for most of your tables, it is possible that some tables look odd when insetted. There is a new style attribute you can apply both in IB and in code, which by default is set to automatic.

This release improves compatibility with macOS Big Sur & Apple Silicon, fixes some minor issues and adds more decimals to percentage related fields. It also features a new icon designed to better fit in Big Sur and a future iOS release:  This release adopts some of the new Big Sur looks, such as full height sidebar with the new system symbols (available only when running on Big Sur). The toolbar icons are unchanged for now and will be replaced with symbols in a future release, as well as using a custom accent color for the sidebar items.

Creating a to-do entry doesn’t have to be a burden. PopDo makes it really easy and quick to do just that. It only takes pressing a shortcut to bring up QuickTask, typing the to-do title and pressing return.  The newly created to-do now lives in the default list. You can add a reminder to the to-do by typing a textual representation of date and time, and assign the to-do item to a particular list by using the #MyList (hashtag) specifier.