QuickLogger

I finally found the time to do some updates to QuickLogger, so version 2.2 is on the server for download. There are multiple changes in this release:

1. Scott reported an error where the Day of the Week setting was not affecting the filename. This issue is now fixed.
2. For those using Excel spreadsheets to track your time there are two new enhancements:
   1. First, I have added a Timestamp format choice, and either 12 or 24-hour format can now be used.
   2. Second, the Elapsed Time column information can now be saved either as a formula or as text. If you want to select a range of cells and reorder them to see the time for a specific project, you can now do that if you have the text option selected.
   3. Third, the total time in each day is now displayed in the spreadsheet underneath all of your logged tasks.
   4. In addition to these three changes, the file type selection was changed to radio buttons so that the new options could be disabled when XLS was not the selected file type.
3. I have made the time elapsed since the currently-logged task show up next to that task at the top of the application. This makes it easy to see how long you have been working on your task without requiring you to open your log.
4. As a side benefit to that change, I have adjusted the txt, html, and csv files to insert the elapsed time based on the last time logged, not based on the file timestamp, which has been the default since the original QuickLogger 1. This makes it possible to edit the log file without messing up the elapsed time.

Well, that’s it for now. There are still a few ideas listed on the Feature Requests page, but I have not figured out how to implement some of them yet, specifically the idea of categories. If you have any ideas or solutions for me to consider, please drop me a line. Also, as always, let me know if you run into any bugs or problems.

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