What's new in Keepr 0.12.0

Track time without leaving Jira

Keepr now has a panel in the Jira issue view. Open an issue and it sits in the sidebar, showing the Keepr workspace and project that Jira project belongs to, with a Start button. The timer runs against the issue you are looking at, and its notes already carry the issue key and summary. Start on the same issue again next week and the time joins the task that is already there rather than a second copy of it.

You connect it once: paste a personal API token, which an Ultimate plan includes, and the panel remembers it for you alone — your colleagues connect their own. Starting from Jira stops a timer you have running in Keepr on the web, after asking you first, and that browser tab updates as it happens.

Your Jira administrator installs the app once for the site; the mapping from a Jira project to a Keepr project is set in the panel and shared by everyone working on it.

One click from the task list

Every task in a list now has a start button, so the common case — start tracking this, now — no longer goes through a dialog.

A task can also record the key and link of the issue it mirrors in your tracker. The key is shown on the task and the link goes straight back to the issue, which is also how the Jira panel recognises the task it should be adding time to.

Notifications that reach you

Notifications can now arrive as browser notifications on your device, including when Keepr is not open in a tab. Turn it on per device in Account settings → Notifications; the per-type switches are the same ones that govern email, so you can have a notice pushed and not mailed, or the other way round.

Reminders that Keepr sends on a schedule — a trial about to end, for instance — come through this way too, and dismissing the timer-policy notice now settles it on every device you use rather than just the one in front of you.

Payment confirmations

Any settled charge can now be downloaded as a Keepr payment confirmation, a document carrying your organization's own details, for whoever keeps your books. Those details — company name, country and the rest — are recorded in the organization's billing settings and appear on every confirmation from then on.

A payment that failed and then went through on a later attempt no longer leaves the earlier failure sitting there as a warning.

Clients and exports

The clients list sorts by its columns and shows how many projects each client has, with the count linking through to them.

CSV exports from reports now open with their accents and Cyrillic intact in Excel, which previously needed a manual import step.

Fixes and speed

A role that cannot track time no longer sees a timer it is not allowed to use, and a role that cannot read other people's entries is told why the tracker looks empty instead of being shown a blank page.

Pages paint faster: Keepr now ships only the icons it actually uses instead of the whole icon font.