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“Timer” is a new feature that we integrated into Activity Tracker Plus 4.0. Think of timer as your stop watch or a count-up timer. Using timers you can do the following

• Track elapsed time since an activity or task took place. You can start a timer and see how long its been in active status. For example, how long its been since I was born? or how long its been since I last watered my plants?. Elapsed time in a timer is always displayed in Years Months Days Hours Minutes format
• Track hours for multiple activities or tasks.  Unlike the default Toggle view, Timer view will allow more than one activity or task to be in working status at any given time. You have an option to add the elapsed time in a timer to your total working hours in your time logs or monthly summary.

From your activity list page, you can switch between timer view and toggle view using keyboard shortcut  Ctrl + Alt + V or by clicking Menu –> Timer/Toggle View

Toggle View (Default View)	Timer View

Managing Active Timers And Timer Logs

You can view all active timers and timer logs from Timers tab under Dashboard. Here you will have option to start a timer, update an active timer, delete active timers or timer logs, add or remove elapsed time in timer logs to your work hours.

Including timer log elapsed time to your work hours

By default, hours in your timer log is not included to your work hours. If you want to include timer log hours to your work hours you have the following options

1. Go to Timers tab under Dashboard and under timer log section, select all the timer logs to be included or excluded from work hours. If included,  your hours gets added to total hours in your weekly time logs and monthly summary.
2. Go to activity or task edit screen and select “Yes” for “Add Timer Log Hours To Work Hours By Default?” and save this activity or task settings. Now when you start timer for this activity or task, the timer logs is automatically included to your work hours

Displaying Active Timers On Web Sites

You can set up social links to display all your active timers on your web site or on social media for your friends or clients. Go to Social Links tab under Dashboard and create a new social link

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In version 3.0 we have successfully integrated a to-do list in to Activity Tracker Plus. You will be able to track time, add notes, add memo, change priority and add expense to each to-do items. We have also made performance and usability improvements.

List of enhancements and new features in version 3.0

• Clicking on activity name will take you to activity edit screen (enhancement)
• Adding tasks for activities is quick and easy (feature)
• To change priority click on the box on the right of a task or activity  (feature)
• Clicking on a task will take you to “Manage Tasks” screen where you can edit the task (feature)
• Improved activities and tasks management screen (enhancement)
• Below shortcut keys are enabled in activity list screen

  • Ctrl + Alt + A	Opens add new activity dialog
    Ctrl + Alt + P	Scrolls to currently punched-in or working activity
    Ctrl + Alt + N	Opens or closes notes for a punched-in activity. You can start adding notes
    Ctrl + Alt + T	Focuses on new task text box for a punched-in activity. You can start adding tasks
    Ctrl + Alt + E	Focuses on new expense text box for a punched-in activity. You can start adding expense
    Esc	Closes any open dialog, like menu or add new activity dialog

Activity Tracker Plus is a free time management or to-do list tool. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log. Project management gadget.

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Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus

“Activity Tracker Plus” is a free time tracking software that can keep track of all your daily activities. You can use if for anything you want - small business owners or employers can use it to track their employee hours, consultants can use it for time reporting, students can use it to track time spent in their homework and others can just use it to analyze how they spend their time. It provides a very simple interface and all you do is punch-in when you start an activity and punch-out when you are done. This gadget will take care of generating your time records or timesheet. It also comes with a social client - “Activity Tracker Plus Social” that will let you share your daily log on your blog or any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, Friendster, MySpace etc in real time.Activity Tracker Plus is built using Google Spreadsheet as the back end for data storage. That means, all your personal tracking data is stored on your own Google spreadsheet. You can back it up whenever you want or export it to your local machine whenever you want.

Activity Tracker Plus can be accessed from any browser (yes.. you can use iPhone too) and it shares the same data from the same Google spreadsheet. That means, you can punch-in from your desktop Activity Tracker Plus or IGoogle and punch-out from your iPhone and you can punch-in again from you Mozilla internet browser. The data is shared and is stored on your very own Google spreadsheet. There are number of set-up options available for Activity Tracker Plus. You can have it on your computer’s system tray or you can have it in your IGoogle page or Gmail or you can access it from any personal web-sites. So you are not limited to using only iGoogle. Activity Tracker Plus is also very reliable and does not depend on a single platform like iGoogle. So even if iGoogle decides to disable all gadgets, all your data is still saved on your spreadsheet and you can still access them through any other Internet browser. You do not need iGoogle to access your data just use any Internet browser. Activity Tracker Plus is very secure. It uses three keys and optional password to make sure no one can access your data.

Points to note before using Activity Tracker Plus

1. If you are a previous iGoogle Activity Tracker user, please note that Activity Tracker Plus is NOT compatible with the old Activity Tracker and you will NOT be able to import all your activities. You can continue to send me requests to recover your old data (screeperzone at gmail.com).

For Netvibes and Vista gadgets, please refer back to the previous version of Activity TrackerActivity Tracker - Punchclock & Time Management Gadget

For all other users, just click on the link below to setup your account and start using Activity Tracker Plus on your Internet Browser or any smartphone browser

Activity Tracker Plus is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log. Project management gadget.

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I get lots of emails related to Activity Tracker Plus security and data visibility (who can see my data ?) . This blog post is dedicated to answer the following questions. Please feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.

1. Who all has access to my Activity Tracker Plus web-application ?
2. How secure is my data that is stored in Google Spreadsheet ?
3. For Employers : I have setup Activity Tracker Plus for 50 employees using my Google account, can my employee access my Google Spreadsheet data ?
4. For Employees: Can my employer view my password that I set and other settings ?

Who all has access to my Activity Tracker Plus web-application ?

Activity Tracker Plus application is protected with three keys (Google access Key, Spreadsheet Name, Private Key) and an optional password (can be set from settings tab). A user trying to access your data needs to know all three key information and password (if set). We always recommend you to set your password, as sometimes the three key information is stored in your browser history. When you set your password, there is no way others can access the application. As the password is saved in your Google spreadsheet, any one who is trying to access needs to know your Google account password as-well to get to your Google spreadsheet. So the answer would be, whoever has the three key information and the password can access Activity Tracker Plus web-application (but not the data that is stored in Google Spreadsheet).

We at ScreeperZone do not log or save any of your three key information or password or IP address on our servers. Any server request that you make to access your data needs to have three key information all the time. In fact as you must have noticed, we do not get any of your personal information like your name or email during setup. As your personal identity is hidden from us, we cannot associate any server request to a customer. You may ask, How are we going to support when we don’t have access to your data ?.  We cannot support your data, but as we provide service that accesses this data, we can support only the services and software we provide (like server up-time or availability, issues in the application etc) . That is why we highly recommend you to not tamper with your data in Google spreadsheet. Even if you mistakenly edit your data directly in Google spreadsheet, use Google Spreadsheet revision history to revert those changes.

How secure is my data that is stored in Google Spreadsheet ?

We decided to store data in your Google Spreadsheet so that you have full control of your own data. Again no one has access to your data except you. Your data is protected by your own Google account password.

For Employers : I have setup Activity Tracker Plus for 50 employees using my Google account, can my employee access my Google Spreadsheet data ?

No, employees don’t have access to your Google Spreadsheet data or to your Google account. All employees have access only to Activity Tracker Plus web-application that is set-up for that employee. He/she can only create task, punch-in/out, modify settings or view log information through the web-application.

For Employees: Can my employer view my password that I set and other settings ?

Employer has full access to his own Google Spreadsheet where employees task and time data is stored. Employer cannot view your personal password that you set as the password is encrypted and stored in Google Spreadsheet. Employer can view your IP address from where you punch-in or punch-out and other settings you save in your Google Spreadsheet. I would recommend all employees to set-up Activity Tracker Plus for themselves and see what all data is visible from Google Spreadsheet.

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“Activity Tracker Plus Social” is a social client for “Activity Tracker Plus“.  It lets you share your daily life log on your blog or your website or on any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, linkedin, Ning, Friendster, MySpace etc.  It lets others see what you are doing now. Your Social Pages are always updated so your viewers can know the current status of your activities. Also, you can provide your viewers access to add tasks to any activities from social client.

Your viewers will not be able to edit your activites and you have full control over what they see. You can just handpick a few activities to be public while the rest remains private. You can also decide to hide or show all the past logs for an activity that is made public. Since “Activity Tracker Plus”  can work on any internet browser - You can punch-in from anywhere and punch-out from anywhere and all your viewers will be able to see what you are upto. To start publishing your life log, follow the steps below:

1. You need to be using “Activity Tracker Plus” .  Follow the link below to setup Activity Tracker Plus.  It is a one time setup and takes only a few minutes.

   Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus

2. Once you have setup Activity Tracker Plus and followed the instructions on how to use it, you can then setup Activity Tracker Plus Social Links.  Just open Activity Tracker Plus and click on “Menu | Dashboard | Social Links” from activity list page as shown.



If you don’t have any social links settings created, click “Create New Social Links Setting” and create a new social links setting. You can create as many social links settings you want. One for your friends, one for your clients and so on..Social link settings once created will contain social links that you can share. Only activities and tasks that are eligible for public view are displayed in activity social links settings page. To make your activities eligible for public view click “Manage Activities” from dashboard. To make tasks for an activity eligible for public view, click “Tasks” tab from activity detail page.

Continued in next page [Creating a new social links setting and explanation] …

Activity Tracker Plus Social lets you share your daily lifelog on your blog or any other social networking platform. It answers one question - What are you doing now ? Always updated and accurate. Control what they can see. Share your daily activities, daily lifelog, day-to-day activity on any blog or social networking platform with friends and family.

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