Ideas, updates, and insights
Product announcements, engineering deep-dives, and practical advice for teams who track time and manage projects.
Project Timelines: Gantt Charts, Milestones & Task Dependencies
See your whole space on a timeline. Drag tasks to reschedule, link dependencies between them, drop milestones on the calendar, and zoom from day to month — all live, all in sync.
May Update: AI Assistants, Personal Access Tokens & a Full Developer Platform
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants straight to your workspace with the new MCP server — around 150 tools across 20 domains. Plus Personal Access Tokens, four consistent APIs, and invoice-scoped reports.
Mid-April Update: Public Forms, Team Management, Task Timers & More
Collect work from anywhere with embeddable public forms, manage your team with granular space permissions, start timers on specific tasks, and edit time and due dates inline.
April Productivity Update: Report Exports, Inline Editing, Bulk Paste & More
Export reports to CSV, XLSX, and PDF. Edit time entries inline. Paste multiple tasks at once. Compact board mode, collapse-all, and a redesigned sidebar.
Custom Workflows & Progress Tracking: Your Process, Your Way
Define your own task statuses, track progress within each stage, and see priority and complexity at a glance with new interactive controls.
Recurring Tasks: Set It Once, Never Forget Again
Weekly reports, monthly invoicing, daily standups — set a task to repeat and the next one appears automatically when you finish.
Spring 2026 Update: Task Groups, Permissions, Activity Log, and More
Nine new features — task groups, board-level permissions, a client role, activity log, avatars, email notifications, deep links, and more.
Instant Search: Find Anything Across Your Entire Workspace
Press ⌘K and start typing. Tasks, spaces, clients, invoices, chat messages — TRCR searches everything in under 5ms, even if you misspell it.
Real-Time Sync: See Changes Instantly Across Every Tab and Device
Start a timer on your phone, see it ticking on your laptop. A teammate creates a task — it appears on your board instantly. No refresh needed, ever.
Why We Chose Rust for Our Backend
How Rust's memory safety, performance, and concurrency model let us handle thousands of WebSocket connections on a single server — and sleep well at night.
WebSocket-First: Our Real-Time Architecture
Why we made WebSocket the primary transport instead of REST, how the fallback layer works, and what it means for your experience.
7 Time Tracking Habits That Actually Stick
Most people abandon time tracking within a week. Here are the patterns we've seen from teams who successfully track every billable hour.
From Timer to Invoice in 30 Seconds
A walkthrough of TRCR's invoice generation flow — how tracked time becomes a professional invoice with one click.
Are Your Projects Actually Profitable?
How to use worker rates, client rates, and TRCR's profitability report to find out which projects make money and which ones don't.
Why We Built Chat Into a Time Tracker
Your team's conversations about work should live next to the work itself. Here's how task-linked channels change the game.