One of the main features added to this version is the ability to easily schedule your activities by dragging and dropping your WorkItems from any of you WorkItem hierarchies to the Activity Calendar.  You can also now drag and drop WorkItems from the Prioritizer to the Activity Calendar, making it easier than ever to schedule those important tasks and activities that are high on your list.

Another feature we’ve added is the ability to unpin any of the primary or secondary docking panes while they are floated on your desktop.  When you unpin a floated pane, the pane will collapse so only it’s title bar is displayed on the desktop.  Place your mouse over the pane’s title bar, and the pane will expand to it’s previous size.  So, you can now keep your favorite panes on the desktop in an unpinned state so they take up little room, where they will be instantly available.

Adding links to your files in the WorkItem Notes pane is now possible, with the new ‘Insert File Link’ toolbar button.  When you insert a link to a file, clicking on the link will open that file with the application which is associated to that file.

There are many more new features in this version which you can see for yourself by downloading Work Time Studio.  You’ll see why we can promise that Work Time Studio is guaranteed to increase your efficiency, and why it’s the best solution to manage your projects, tasks and time.

Check out the new features in Version 1.4.0 by downloading a free 30 day trial version today.

Although this is a minor update, it is a very important one.  This update adds the ability for users to set theirown date and time formats.  So, users are no longer limited to English date and time formats, and have a wide variety of date formats to select from.  Users also have the ability to specify whether you would like to use 12 hour or 24 hour time formats.

We feel this will allow users from all over the globe to take better advantage of Work Time Studio’s features, and are exited about this version’s release.

Another added feature to version 1.3.0 is the ability to recursively expand any WorkItem branch, simply by holding the [Ctrl] key while expanding the branch. You can also hold down the [Shift] key while expanding a branch, to force the display of all children in the branch regardless of the hidden status types for that branch.

We have had many requests to enhance the tray icon for Work Time Studio, so we have included many enhancements to the tray icon, and added many operations to Work Time Studio while it’s in a minimized state. You can now specify the action to take when double clicking on the tray icon. You can also include handy menu commands to the tray icon menu, such as changing the clocked state of the current WorkItem, or toggling any of the primary or secondary panes on the desktop.

Event reminder popups now display the start time of the associated event, as well as the amount of time until the event’s start time. Event reminder handling also works better in this new version.

Work Time Studio now also provides a What’s New section in its context help. This allows you to quickly see what new features have been added to the latest version.

We invite you to try version 1.3.0 of Work Time Studio for yourself, to see how you can manage your time, projects, tasks, or any other activity more efficiently and effectively. You’ll see how Work Time Studio can fill your time, project and task management needs and more.

The introduction of WorkItem events allows you to use Work Time Studio in even more ways. You can assign a category to any of your events. Work Time Studio includes some common event categories like Meeting, Deadline, Appointment, Birthday, and more. And, of course, you know that with Work Time Studio’s flexibility you can even add your own event categories.

You can view, edit, and maintain your WorkItem events from within the Activity Tree or the Activity Calendar. That’s right, WorkItem events will show up within the Activity Calendar! Scared you won’t be able to distinguish your intervals from the events? Don’t be. Events are displayed with a specific colored border (which you can change) which distinguishes them from WorkItem intervals. Double clicking on an event in the calendar allows you to edit the properties of the event, just as double clicking on an interval allows you to edit properties of the interval.

Need events to be recurring? You’ll love the recurrence options that the events provide. Each occurrence of the event will display on the calendar, showing you when it will occur. Need to be reminded of your events? No problem! Each event allows you to set a reminder, and a lead time for the reminder. You will then be reminded when the event is ‘triggered’ by either a popup notification or by the Event Reminders Manager, your choice. You can even customize where the popup notifications are displayed on your monitor, set their color, how long they are displayed, animation method, as well as other properties of the popups. You can even set a default snooze time for events so that if you don’t perform an action on the popup reminder in a given amount of time, the reminder will automatically snooze for that default duration you specify.

We feel that WorkItem events will add many possibilities to the way you use Work Time Studio, and we’re sure you will fall in love with the new features that WorkItem events offer.

Since this was a very necessary update, the small issues related to Windows 7 will now be pushed back to Version 1.1.0, which is expected to be released by Dec 20th.

In other news, the word of Work Time Studio’s release is beginning to gain momentum.  If you have downloaded Work Time Studio and feel it’s one of the best tools for managing your time and workload, please spread the word!  The continued support and enhancements to Worktime Studio depends directly on its success, which in turn is dependent on its satisfied customers.  Also, don’t be scared to let us know what you think.  We have gotten some very good feedback and suggestions in the first few weeks of Work Time Studio’s release.  Your suggestions and comments will not only benefit you, but will be beneficial to all current and future users.

You can look forward to a couple of major enhancements to version 1.2, which we’re hoping to release before the 2nd quarter of 2010.   The major enhancement will be the addition of ‘WorkItem Events‘.  You will be able to add any number of events to your WorkItems, which will be managed in a variety of ways.  A ‘WorkItem Event’ pane will be included as a sub pane of the Activity Tree.  This pane will display all the events for the selected WorkItem in the top task panel of the pane.  When you select one of the events in the task panel, the event properties of that event will be displayed, and can be edited, in the lower part of the pane within a property grid.  In addition to the ability to edit event properties in the lower part of the WorkItem Events pane, you will also be able to edit events in an ‘Edit Event Dialog’ which will be displayed by double clicking on the event in the task panel.  The WorkItem events will also be displayed on the Activity Calendar, where they can also be edited.  You’ll be able to set reminders for the events, and set a variety of recurring properties for the events.  You’ll also be able to assign events to a user defined ‘Event Category’.  The Event Categories will be maintained in the user options.

A new feature slated for Version 1.3, is the addition of a ‘Quick Calendar’ pane.  This pane will only display the current day view, and will show the past and current WorkItem intervals for the day.  The date in the Quick Calendar will normally display the current date, but can be changed to show another date.  The Quick Calendar will also show any WorkItem events which are scheduled for the displayed date.

Work Time Studio  is not simply a project or task management tool.  It will truly revolutionize the way its users work.

Work Time Studio works on the principal of Divide and Conquer.  It allows you to quickly and easily enter you workload in a way which is organized, categorized,  and easily accessed.  With its unique interface, it will allow you to keep on top of all your activities.

The timing features built into Work Time Studio will allow you to precisely track your time spent on your different work related activities with very little interaction.    And with Work Time Studio’s Studio Bar, you will have your full desktop free to perform your normal computer work while all of Work Time Studio’s features are available to you with a click of the mouse.

Work Time Studio was designed to enhance the way you work.  It’s flexible interface allows you to customize it so that it adapts to your particular work environment.

The trial download of Work Time Studio allows users to try it for 30 days.  The only limitation to the trial version is each database will allow at the most 100 WorkItems to be added, which is more than enough to get a good feel how the software works.

If you think Work Time Studio is simply a type of project or task management application, think again.  You have to see Worktime Studio for yourself, or visit http://www.worktimestudio.com to see how it is unlike any other work management tool.

For the most part, this blog will provide tips to get the most use from Work Time Studio. I’ll occasionally diverge and write articles for C++ development programming. In this nature I’ll be wanting to take the opportunity to write about some of the free software libraries which are used in Work Time Studio. Also, I plan to post some surveys which will help with the development and marketing of Work Time Studio.

I’m considering using the default user registration for this blog, which will require submitting your email address, and choosing a username. In time, I may elect for some less restrictive acess.

I’ll be posting periodically throughout the month, to update with you on the progress of Work Time Studio, and for any changes related to the release date. For now, check out the screen shots.