May 16
Changeable logins
Every mite.account is available under its own, unique URL. When you sign-up for a new account, you choose this personal login. E.g., if your login is »myteam«, you log-in at https://myteam.mite.yo.lk.
You can now change this login—which can be handy if you rename your company for example. The owner of the account and administrators can find this new feature under the tab »Account«.
If you change the login of your account, the renamed account will be at your service under its new address immediately. Please inform your team about the update, so nobody will get lost. Also, the URLs of any shared reports will change. Thus, please let your clients know, too. Thanks!
March 18
Copy time entries as a template
Working days often differ strongly in detail, but follow a similar basic structur. At some moment of the day, we usually check our mails, take care of administrative issues, get our team on the same page in a meeting, and push forward our current project.
From today on, you won’t have to add the same time entries from the ground up every single day. Instead, mite will be happy to help you kickstart your day. With a single click, you can now copy last working day’s time entries as a template for the current day.
If you select a day without time entries, you’ll see a link on the white content area which says »Copy last working day’s entries as a template«. When you click on it, mite will duplicate the project and service of these time entries, delete their notes, and reset their hours. Now, you can start the timer on any of these template entries, or edit their hours directly.
If you don’t need one or several of the copied time entries on the current day, simply delete them. The last working day is the last day on which you added at least one time entry. Time entries with archived projects and/or services won’t get copied. Of course, you can manually add more time entries to the copied ones. The time tracking features you’re accustomed with won’t change at all.
We hope so much that this new feature will help you save some precious time, day by day! Please tell us how the update is working out for you. Constructive feedback is super-important for improving mite. Thanks!
February 12
DynaMite 3
Hear hear, Mac users: Do you use Lion or higher? Then this is for you. Version 3 of DynaMite, the sleek mite.client for Mac OS, has arrived!
What is DynaMite?
DynaMite is an add-on for Mac users which is developed and maintained by Swiss MediaAtelier. DynaMite is kind of a remote for your mite. It sits directly in the menu bar of your Mac. Right here, you’ll see at a glance if a timer is running, and if so, how many minutes you’ve been working already. Stop or edit running timers with a single click. Or create a new time entry with a running timer in no time at all.
What’s new in version 3?
- Idle timers
- Time entries with multiline notes
- Click a day summary to view the corresponding mite.page
- Increase or decrease running timers right from your menu bar
- Switch easily between multiple mite.accounts
November 15, 2012
Select menus à la mite: enhanced search
The recently launched select menus feature a search to find any given entry in no time at all. We just updated this search: You can now search for groups, too. E.g., if you create a new time entry, you can search the select »Project« not only for a project, but also for a customer. mite will then display all projects of the customer in question.
Thanks so much for your numerous feedback suggesting this enhancement! We’re very happy to know the search feature is utilized to such an extent already.
November 12, 2012
Select menus à la mite
Goodbye standards, salut flexibility! From today on, a home-brewed version of an essential interface element is in operation in all modern browsers. Fully flavored à la mite, search included — please meet our new select menus:
Homebrewing gave us the chance to regain full control of the selects, and add some much-requested spice: search. Hopefully, this new flavor will simplify and speed-up every single choice, especially for teams and freelancers juggling a multitude of projects and/or services. Please make your voice heard how the new selects are working out for you. Feedback is much appreciated.
Thanks to all those user who got in touch to suggest this update, and to Chosen, the open source project which forms the foundation of our version. Merci for releasing the code!
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Update, November 13th: Thanks so much for your open and constructive feedback here, via Twitter and e-mail! You made yourself clear: thumbs up for the features, thumbs down for the look and feel. Especially with longer names, the new selects became less clear, and even a a hord of zebras galloping through the selects was spotted.
We heard you. We got back to work. And just published an update of the update. Thanks again for your honest feedback. We do hope that we got it right and really better this time!
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Update, November 14th: If you open the new selects, they now adapt their height to the space available in your browser window. You’ll see far more elements at a glance on bigger screens.
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Update, November 15th: You can now search for groups, too. E.g, search for a customer in the select »Project«.
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Update, January 28th: The new selects under the tab »Time tracking« now adapt their width to the space available, too. They show up to ten more characters.
August 29, 2012
Find customers, projects, services, and users
Got tired of scrolling through all too long lists of customers, projects, services, or users to find what you’re looking for? Help is here: mite now features a smart search for each of those tabs.
To find an object, click into the search field in the right sidebar or press f on your keyboard, and type the first characters of your search term. In modern browsers, results will show up and adapt as you type. In older browsers and Internet Explorers <10, press return or click on the magnifying glass icon to start your search.
Generally, mite finds all objects whose names include your search term. Furthermore, you can search for customer names under the tab »Projects« as well as for e-mail addresses under »Team« by simply using the same search box.
Cheers to a speedier mite! Hopefully, today’s update will improve the handling especially for hard-working teams.
August 15, 2012
Scheduled Maintenance
Tonight, our servers will need some maintenance. mite won’t be available twice for ~five minutes each. The first unavailability will start at ~3:30am CEST, the second one will occur between 5:30 and 7:30am CEST (what time is that for me?).
Tonight’s maintenance originates from a production error in our IBM database servers. The error, which also lead to July’s hiccups, will be fixed by a firmware update, which unfortunately cannot be installed during normal operation. We ask for your understanding.
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Update: Maintenance went as planned. mite was unavailable a total of 5 minutes.
August 01, 2012
Updated Terms of Service
We updated our Terms of Service. The new version is located at its usual place, the former version can still be accessed here.
Bottom line
Nothing fundamental changes, and nothing changes to your disadvantage.
July 27, 2012
Scheduled Maintenance
Today, Friday evening, maintenance will take place starting at 9pm CEST (what time is that for me?). mite won’t be available for 30 to 45 minutes.
This maintenance is the consequence of this morning’s interruption. Our database server went down. To get mite back up asap during working day hours, we switched to our failover database server. This evening, our database will move to its former home, the more powerful main database server. The maintenance downtime is inevitable to avoid data corruption with 100% safety.
Again, and hopefully for the last time for a long long future: We ask for your understanding.
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Update: Maintenance went as planned. mite was unavailable for 21 minutes.
July 25, 2012
Today’s server problems
Since 10:37 CEST, mite is not available continuously due to server problems. We’re terribly sorry, please, excuse us! We’ll do everything to get mite up and running again as soon as possible. Please visit Twitter to get the newest information on this issue, we’ll update continuously.
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Update: Since 11:49 CEST, mite is available again after moving servers to another node. We’re continuing to watch super-closely. Details will follow. Again: so sorry for this interruption!
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Update II: In the meantime, we collaborated with our hoster and found the source of the problem: A server of another customer running on our hardware node went wild and “stole” essential ressources from our database server. First, our hoster should have taken measures against this. Second, we too should have identified this troublemaker earlier and safeguarded mite. Our apologies. This interruption was an avoidable one.
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Update III, July 27th, 10:15 CEST: Again, we’re having server problems—all bad things seem to come in pairs. Our database server is not running smoothly since 9:52 CEST. We’re so sorry for this rough ride. Please bear with us.
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Update IV, July 27th, 11:26 CEST: mite is stable again for now. We switched our database to a redundant failover server. Please visit Twitter to get the newest updates.
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Update V, July 27th, 17:01 CEST: To prevent another hiccup, maintenance will take place tonight.