As you may already know, you can use Twitter to send Harvest your expenses and stop a timer you’ve accidentally left running, all from the convenience of your phone, IM, or other Twitter interfaces. Recently, we’ve added a new feature so you can also enter time via Twitter. Check out the updated Twitter [...]
Category: Tips
Archive tasks
This is a handy little feature to manage your tasks. Go to Manage > Tasks. Click on any task - you’ll see a little trash icon next to the task name.
The trash icon does 2 things: if you have not tracked any time under this task, it’ll let you remove the task entirely. If anyone [...]
Spell check for Firefox
One of our users wrote in regarding spell checking in Firefox, our favorite web browser. By default, Firefox only spell checks textareas, and if you want it to check all fields – such as the daily entry notes – simply follow these steps:
In the browser address bar, type: ‘about:config’
Look for ‘layout.spellcheckDefault’
The value you see [...]
New Feature: Add a person to all existing projects
We’ve just released a small feature that can come in handy for companies with a lot of projects. Let’s say you’ve just added someone new to your staff, and for the sake of making things easy, you want to add this person to every active project you have going on.
In the old days, you [...]
Harvest and Personal Time Management
We designed Harvest to track what is most important to a service business: its billable hours. However, Harvest is flexible and does just as well tracking all those non-billable hours—including, for some, their personal time. Just how can one use Harvest to get a handle on his or her own productivity and time [...]
Round It Off for Me
Harvest aims to track and report your time as accurately as possible. However, some users have been requesting for a way to get their time rounded off so they can present a more normalized view of their time to a client as well as simplify their billing. With that request in mind, we’ve [...]
View detailed notes directly within reporting.
The detailed notes that users log from the daily timesheet is now viewable directly from reporting. As you navigate through your reports, you will notice that the total hours for each project, person, and task are now clickable. Clicking on the hours allows you to drill down for further details. Give it a [...]
Time Entry Your Way
Time tracking is very subjective in nature. Some users only need to capture hours logged against a project. Other users require notes to be associated with every time entry. Each company and individual has its own requirements. Here at HARVEST, we are interested in providing tracking methods that work for you [...]


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