Keep an eye on your workload with estimates on tasks.

As someone who was always responsible for quoting for new work back when we had a consultancy business, having a feature like our new Task Estimates would have really helped me gauge if I was quoting realistically for jobs and more importantly if we were making money on these projects.

There can sometimes be a massive gap between the time you quote for and the time you actually end up working....and it’s very rare that it’s in your favor.

We have been planning this new feature for quite a while and over the last 2 months in particular the amount of requests we received for this just grew and grew. This added to the motivation to push this feature up the Roadmap and to get it rolled out.

You now have the ability to add estimated time to a task. This feature will now really help you become even more organized. It will help you plot out the amount of time a project is going to take and for those of you that charge and quote by the hour this is going to become a vital tool.

Now over time you will be able to compare the time you estimated to the actual time you logged on the project.

With this new feature comes some very nice new reporting extras. The new workload chart and the extended Task list time report.

Right, so how does this feature work?

When creating tasks you will have the option to add an estimated time. This is available in the new Progress tab. Enter in the hours and minutes you think it will take to complate the task and save.

We also added a quick way to add estimated time to tasks. On the task page you will notice a plus sign as you place your mouse over tasks. Click this to quickly add estimated time for that task.

Once you have estimates added to your tasks across your projects you can view our new Workload chat. A lot of you have been looking for this. This new chart shows you the amount of work that you and your team have on across all your projects between certain dates. If a few of you have 20 hours work to do in 8 hours you might need to split the work up a bit ;-)

You can also see from this workload chart the estimated time verses the actual time logged

The last report that has changed is the time report on a task list. If you run this you get a break down of the total time estimated, actual logged time and whats billable across all the tasks.


We really hope you enjoy this new feature and as always, if you have any feedback, please send it on.

We added some cool things this week based on feedback

It's my favourite time of the week again - update time!

Based on lots of feedback and suggestions (some old, some new) we have knocked a few items on the head and rolled them out live.

What's new?
  • Calendar: If the event end date is past the current time of day we now slightly grey the event title and time so you can focus on what's next
  • Calendar: A very popular request was the ability to see tasks per day on the calendar without having to click off to another page. We have now added this ability by hovering your mouse over the task count for the day.
  • Tasks: If you hover over the time icon on a task we now pop-up a little tool tip showing you how much time has been logged so far

  • All Time: Custom report now has the option to pick an arbitrary number of projects to run the report against all grouped nicely by Company

  • Project Name: Some people have the same project name for multiple projects but for different company's. We now list the company name next to the project name where the project name may be ambiguous
  • Time: You can now associate time entries with a task in the Time tab. Previously, you had to log the time from the Task options menu. We added this for new time entries and when you edit a time entry.
  • Resources: We added a sort option (Sort by either date added or name)


  • Project Report: If Start and End dates are set on a project we also include them in the project report

What's fixed?
  • Backup download link in Internet Explorer wasn't working
  • Milestones were missing in some backups for some users
  • We added a handy new rule for Teamwork sites that used to be SSL but are now Custom Domains. Users no longer get presented with an SSL error.
  • Basecamp Import: There was some funkiness happening with some imports which has now been resolved
  • We improved the display of the Project Report late items when they are late due to a Milestone being late
  • We now remember the person picked in the Time filter to make it easier when filtering to edit time entries.
  • We darkened the "Un-Pinned" task list icon so it is more visible on the majority of screens
  • Recurring Events in the calendar got a lot of love and work 100% now. We had a slight calculation error that caused many of our customers to get grey hair...
Thanks to everyone who sent us Feedback and Suggestions! We have some more on the way that didn't make it into this release!