1. Export to Excel (print, share, and analyze your data)

Our users Jason, Wes, and Sanjay first requested to transfer Chrometa data into Excel back in September. Since then, many others have chimed in, and Export to Excel is now a standard Chrometa feature!

If you haven’t tried this out, just go to File > Export, and your data is off to Excel. Now you can easily print out reports, share your reports with clients/colleagues, and slice/dice your data however you like!

2. What did I do in Quickbooks?

Chrometa user Louise was a Quickbooks power-user, and needed to track time on each screen in Quickbooks. Sounds easy, right? Problem was Quickbooks doesn’t update its window title as you interact with it, making it difficult for Chrometa to decipher which screen the user’s on. Our solution involved creating a super-advanced component that taps directly into the Quickbooks application. Tada! Quickbooks users: check it out!

3. Snappier categorize and delete activity

The one aspect of Chrometa that’s not fully automatic is categorizing your entries to clients and projects. It was important to us to make this task as easy as possible. Although drag-and-drop has been around since launch, it definitely could use some improvements.

You asked for easier drag-and-drop, multiple item drag-and-drop, and bulk delete… and we delivered!

Drag and Drop:  drag and drop to save you a click each time you categorize. These days, you won’t have to click to select an item before drag and drop. With a simple drag motion, you can categorize any Active Time entry.

Multiple Entry Drag-and-Drop: Same deal — select the entries (using shift and ctrl keys), and drag away. Wasn’t that easy?

Bulk Delete (Mark’s idea): Select the entries (using shift and ctrl keys), right click on a selected entry, and choose “Delete Activity.”

4. Oh Chrometa… how do you watch yourself like that?

That’s right — Chrometa can now track itself (Gary and Peter’s idea)! Ever wonder how much time you’re spending each day reviewing and categorizing entries? Now you can view time spent on Chrometa just like for any other application.

5. Faster, smarter, more reliable

We were just talking about you… kidding! Since Chrometa runs in the background whenever you’re working, we put on our serious face when it comes to stability and performance. Under the hood, we’ve added several data preservation and run-time optimizations to ensure that Chrometa works reliably and stays invisible until you need it. We’ve also recently added support for Windows 7.