Kapow - time tracking

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Kapow - time tracking

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Kapow is a punch clock program designed to easily keep track of your hours, whether you're working on one project or many. Simply clock in and out with the Start/Stop button.
http://gottcode.org/kapow/

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Download @ http://gottcode.org/kapow/Kapow_1.3.4.zip
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Create a folder named "Data" in the same folder as the executable

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Re: Kapow V.1.3.4

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Kapow is at version 1.4.4:
Changes in version 1.4.4 Released on February 17th, 2013
•Added automatic backups of time data
•Added support for Qt 5
•Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.4.3 Released on October 13th, 2012
•Greek translation added by geogeo.gr
•Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.4.2 Released on August 8th, 2012
•Fixed bug where data was not migrated

Changes in version 1.4.1 Released on August 6th, 2012
•Fixed bug where some projects had no totals rows

Changes in version 1.4.0 Released on August 6th, 2012
•Added entering task before starting session
•Added totals row for each billed session
•Added exporting reports as HTML / iCalendar / CSV
•Added setting the data location
•Improved loading time data

Changes in version 1.3.5 Released on May 26th, 2012
•Danish translation added by Rasmus Blomqvist
•Bug fixes
http://gottcode.org/kapow/

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Re: Kapow V.1.3.4

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I am Baas wrote:Kapow
Great suggestion. Had a lot of fun testing this.

The program is blessedly simple, will run multiple timers simultaneously, and even has a profile system to track different activities (you have to start a new one to run two timers). You can even enter hours in for time frames that were not specifically timed (manually add to the eventual report).

I really like this program and might use it to keep track of time-spent on projects.

Cross-platform: Win, Linux, Mac

License: GPL v3

Wishlist
  • I'd like to see a program that uses less RAM (starts out around 7, lowers to 6.4).
  • Minimize to tray rather than task bar (I use ClickyGone to hide it effectively)
  • I can think of a few ways to integrate a calendar into this - even just a thumbnail of the month ahead would be cool, but also listing days where a time was recorded would be nifty. Something to fill up space on the top bar.
  • Report:
    • Ability to save to a PDF (or similar format) rather than print out a document. Obviously a print-to-PDF driver (like pdfcreator) would do the trick, but that requires an install and I'm trying to stay in the no-install camp.
    • Ability to export to spreadsheet (CSV)

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Re: Kapow 1.5.2

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Kapow at version 1.5.2, recent changes:
Changes in version 1.5.0
Released on September 17th, 2016
  • Disabled removing projects with running timers in subprojects
  • Properly stop all timers when program exits
  • Added starting, stopping, or canceling sessions from sidebar
  • Added support for high DPI displays
  • Added AppData file
  • Added manpage
  • Added unit tests
  • Refactored code
  • Simplified build system
  • Switched to Qt 5
  • Switched to C++11
  • FIXED: Could not add session longer than one day
  • FIXED: Broken system tray icon support in Windows
  • FIXED: Setting locale did not change layout direction
  • FIXED: SessionModel ids were treated as signed ints
  • Translation updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Changes in version 1.5.1
Released on October 10th, 2016
  • Generate binary translations at build time
  • FIXED: Was not properly loading Qt translations
  • Translation updates: Romanian
Changes in version 1.5.2
Released on November 3rd, 2016
  • FIXED: Broken report totals with commas
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Wishlist
  • I'd like to see a program that uses less RAM (starts out around 7, lowers to 6.4).
  • Minimize to tray rather than task bar (I use ClickyGone to hide it effectively)
  • I doubt that a Qt-based program can be low in resource usage (Kapow version 1.5.2 uses Qt version 5.7.0 which is hungrier for resources than Qt version 4). Anyway, by using Qt Kapow is cross-platform.
  • Kapow has a tray icon, single left-click minimizes/maximizes program window- when minimized to tray the program doesn't appear in task-bar.

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Re: Kapow V.1.3.4

#5 Post by webfork »

Update: program is still in development. Some recent changes ...

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Changes in version 1.5.8

Released on July 20, 2018
FIXED: Automatic high DPI support

Changes in version 1.5.7

Released on June 24, 2018
FIXED: Crash when adding projects
FIXED: Crash when removing projects with multiple subprojects

Changes in version 1.5.6

Released on May 29, 2018
Extra warnings only shown in debug build
Improved Linux deployment
Improved macOS deployment
Improved Windows deployment
Translation updates: Danish, Portuguese

https://gottcode.org/kapow/

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