TimeTrackerby Knudsen Software Systems

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Settings

Your business details, weekly and daily targets, currency and date formats, themes, and where your data is kept.

On this page
  1. Find your way around Settings
  2. Set up your business
  3. Set your weekly and daily targets
  4. Weekly target
  5. Daily target
  6. Set currency, dates and clock
  7. Choose a theme
  8. Find where your data is

At a glance

  • Settings is a list of categories on the left, each with its own page.
  • Your business details are only needed for invoices.
  • Set a weekly target and the length of your working day.
  • Formats come from your Windows settings; change them if you like.
  • Pick one of five colour themes.

Settings is where you tell TimeTracker about your business and how you like things shown. You don’t need to change anything to start tracking time.

Other parts of Settings have their own pages: Backups, Licence and Logs.

Find your way around Settings

Settings has a list of categories on the left. Click one to show its page on the right. The line under each category’s name sums up its current state, so you can see at a glance, for example, whether backups are set up.

The Settings tab with the list of categories on the left and the Backups page open on the right.
The line under each category sums up its state, such as whether backups are set up.

The categories, in order:

Category What it holds
Licence Your trial or licence. See Trial and licence.
Your business The details on your invoices (below).
General Currency, date and clock formats (below).
Appearance The theme (below).
Working hours target Your weekly and daily targets (below).
Backups Automatic backups. See Backups and restore.
Data Where your data is, and importing a backup (below).
Logs The activity log and sending a report to support. See Troubleshooting.
About Information about TimeTracker.
The About page in Settings, showing information about TimeTracker.
Settings, About.

Set up your business

Your business details become the “From” block on your invoices. You only need them if you make invoices.

  1. Open Settings → Your business.
  2. Type your business name and create it. The name is printed as the sender on every invoice.
  3. Add your mailing address and press Save. Your invoices’ “From” block uses this address.
  4. If you like, add phone numbers and people, each with their own buttons.
Settings, Your business page with the business name, mailing address, phone numbers and people.
Your business has the same fields as a client, without the billing address.

Set your weekly and daily targets

Both targets are in Settings → Working hours target.

Settings, Working hours target page with weekly target and daily target fields and their save buttons.
Each target has its own save button.

Weekly target

How many hours you intend to work each week, across every project. The Track tab shows the week so far against it. Weeks run Monday to Sunday. See This week’s total.

  1. Enter the hours and minutes.
  2. Press Save weekly target.

Daily target

How long your working day is. When a project’s budget on the Track tab shows the time left in working days, it counts days of this length. See Time left in hours or working days.

  1. Enter the length of your working day.
  2. Press Save daily target.

A day must be at least one minute and no more than 24 hours. Save daily target is greyed out until you change the value.

Set currency, dates and clock

In Settings → General you can set how money, dates and times are written.

  • the currency symbol, such as $ or €
  • whether the symbol goes before or after the amount
  • the decimal mark: a point or a comma
  • the thousands separator: a comma, a point, a space, or nothing
  • the date format, with an example of each so you can see exactly how a date will look
  • a 12-hour or 24-hour clock
Settings, General page with currency symbol, decimal mark, thousands separator, date format and clock options.
Each date format shows an example, so you can see how a date will look.

Press Save at the bottom of the panel when you’re done.

The first time TimeTracker runs on Windows, it fills these in from your computer’s regional settings, so you may not need to change anything.

Choose a theme

TimeTracker has five colour themes:

  • Midnight, dark (the default)
  • Light
  • Mocha
  • Slate
  • Nord
Settings, Appearance page showing the five themes to choose from.
Click a theme to switch to it.

Open Settings → Appearance and click a theme to switch to it. TimeTracker remembers your choice.

TimeTracker's Track tab in the Light theme.
Light.
TimeTracker's Track tab in the Mocha theme.
Mocha.
TimeTracker's Track tab in the Slate theme.
Slate.
TimeTracker's Track tab in the Nord theme.
Nord.

Find where your data is

Settings → Data shows exactly where your data file is kept (“Your data lives in …”). This is also where you import a backup.

Settings, Data page showing where the data file lives and the Import data button.
Your data's exact location, and the Import data button.

See Your data and privacy and Backups and restore.