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.

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.

This patch fixes a crash that happens when you enter more than 64 characters in an invoice or estimate item name. There are also a couple of improvements you can read here. FreelanceStation is available for download now.

This patch fixes the right-click behaviour, which now opens the contextual menu for a task without the need to select the task first. There are also improvements to stability. You can download a 14 days trial here: https://ds9soft.com/popdo/

This patch addresses several issues with contact selection and display and introduces some improvements. Refer to the Release Notes for more details. You can download a free 30-days trial here.

This patch fixes some UI bugs. You can download a 14 days trial here: https://ds9soft.com/popdo/

This is a quick patch to fix an issue with the menu bar icon. When configured as a counter of tasks, the count did not properly update when marking a task as complete. The issue has been solved.

PopDo 1.4.2 is now available on the Mac App Store for update. This patch improves general usability by allowing lists to be reordered by drag & dropping them above or below other lists and automatically selecting a task when the title or notes fields gain focus. Quick Task now supports flagging by appending !! to the task entry. There are a couple minor UI issues fixed too. All the details are available in the release notes.

This patch release fixes two issues: Void invoices were accounted for when recomputing account balances. The New Task dialog had no help topic assigned. Also the previous app icon was restored.

This release adds a “Where to Start” view when opening FreelanceStation, to help new users. Also the user manual was rewritten and available as a PDF file instead of the previous Apple Help format. There are several improvements in the workflow, to make FreelanceStation more flexible, such as making it easier to create tasks and start tracking time. Next releases will further improve the workflow.

PopDo 1.4.1 is now available in the Mac App Store. This patch mainly fixes a UI bug that occurred under certain conditions when deleting a task. Also the user manual is now presented by the Help Viewer, a custom integrated PDF viewer specifically built to show manuals. Previously PopDo would call the system to open the PDF file in the default viewer, which is not ideal. As always, you can purchase PopDo directly or download a free trial.

PopDo has been release to the Mac App Store. It should be available for update in a few hours. This new release features Quick Task, a small window similar to Spotlight Search that allows easy creation of tasks, including setting a reminder and assigning the task to a list: There are several improvements, such as a task counter in place of the menubar icon, task title colorization when the task is overdue, a new sort option to show overdue tasks on top of other tasks in the list, plus other UI improvements.

This PopDo release enables the option to delete lists (a Reminders calendar really) on macOS 10.15.4 and later. It was previously disabled because there was a bug in EventKit that prevented calendars from being removed. This has now been fixed by Apple and so PopDo can now remove lists.

This release introduces several changes and fixes: Expanding Date Picker The reminder date picker now expands to show a graphical calendar picker, which makes it easier to select dates. Before PopDo 1.3, the date picker was the standard, which only lets you numerically enter dates by month/day/year. Now you can pick the date directly from the calendar.  Natural Language Analyzer PopDo 1.3 now includes a natural language analyzer for extracting dates from task titles.

After a long hiatus of around 4 months, I updated FreelanceStation with some fixes and minor improvements. The Release Notes contains a list of all changes introduced in this version. You can download a free 30 days trial here or purchase a license in the Mac App Store.

The previous two releases (1.2.4 and 1.2.5) fixed a couple bugs and improved the UI slightly. This release updates the translation for some strings that remained untranslated in the previous releases.

This patch fixes several outstanding UI issues and adds a user manual. For more details, check out the release notes.

This patch fixes several UI issues and improves performance a little. For more details, check out the release notes.

This is a patch release to fix an issue that appears when the user is not logged into iCloud or iCloud has not finish synchronising, and to change the compact view to be really compact and just show the task title along with the toggle completion button.  You can purchase PopDo directly or download a free trial.

This release adds an option to open the main window with a shortcut that you can configure in Preferences. It also adds translation for Spanish, German and French. You can purchase PopDo directly or download a free trial.

This release fixes some minor bugs in the UI: A small delay that occurred when clicking the notes field or the reminder date field. Now each row is “click-through”. An issue in the “Sort By” popup list where the popup saved the selected item but did not recall it when opening the main window. Some other minor UI bugs. If there are no other reported bugs, this shall be the last 1.

This release fixes a couple of minor UI issues and improves the memory use while idle. There are still some outstanding bugs left to fix; those will be fixed by version 1.0.2: A slight delay occurs when clicking on the notes field or the reminder date field. The Today filter shows only tasks due today and not also tasks due in the past. The "Sort By” selector remembers the choice but doesn’t recall it when opening the main window again.

This is the first release, so it could contain some minor bugs. The reason for this app to exist is I wanted a task list compatible with Reminders (some kind of compatibility anyway) that was able to keep its filter after changing lists or reopening, something Reminders is unable to do right now.

FreelanceStation 1.5 is now published to the Mac App Store. This release fixes some serious bugs, improves the UI and makes invoicing more flexible. It also introduces a Payments window to show and also remove recorded payments, and a client accounts inspector panel for the Clients view, which allows you to edit the accounts balances and recompute the amounts. The Release Notes provide an itemised list of changes and fixes.

This release fixes two long-standing bugs: You can now close windows by pressing ⌘W. Previously it wasn’t possibly to create a client when it had a contact of type organization assigned to it.  You can download a 30 days free trial orpurchase from the App Store.

I just released FreelanceStation version 1.4. This new version includes integration with Apple Reminders and a Time Log. The integration with Reminders requires enabling the feature in Preferences and setting a default reminder list: When you create a new invoice, a reminder will be automatically created with an alarm set to the due date. You can opt-out of the reminder by clicking the Toggle Reminder button right next to the Cancel button in the invoice editor.

This is a bug fix release with mostly cosmetic changes but also, and more importantly, a change to improve the energy usage of the timer.

FreelanceStation 1.3 is now available for update in the App Store. This release includes changes some users asked for, as the past release. What’s new in this release: - New: Add time to any task manually. - New: An onboarding window will appear when first running the application to help new users setup FreelanceStation. - New: Invoices can now be deleted. - New: Idle detection. Automatically stops the timer after a configured threshold, and resumes when activity is detected.

This release includes changes that some users asked for. It is working in macOS Catalina so far up to the latest beta. What's New in This Version: - New: Export project tasks to Apple Calendar as new events. - New: Document numbers now can have a custom prefix. - New: You can set a starting number for documents when you create a new activity. - New: Task progress can now be shown as a circular progress in the dock icon.

I have just released FreelanceStation 1.0 to the Mac App Store. I expected the review process to have me waiting for longer that it did, so kudos to Apple for improving it. I think it was roughly 18 hours since I submitted the app. I was also expecting to fail the review, for some odd reason, but I didn’t. I’ll take a couple days off and then resume developing the app.