Support Contents

• Other Resources
• Getting Started with Khronos
  • About Khronos
  • The Interface
  • Editing Sessions and Projects
  • Importing and Exporting Data
• Known Issues
• Donating
  • How to Donate
  • Why Donate?
  • Thanks

Khronos Support

Other Resources:

• Khronos Website
• Email Khronos Authors

Getting Started with Khronos

About Khronos

Khronos is designed to:

• Log time spent on each project.
• Log time spent on each project session.
• Calculates the payment from client (based on hourly wage).
• Allow modification your project sessions.
• Give real time feedback.
• Export and backup your data (import into Excel).
• Create invoices in HTML or PDF formats.

The Interface

Buttons:

View all the sesions for the selected project.

Add a new project or session.

Remove a project. Be careful, this cannot be undone.

Edit a project or session.

Start recording a project session.

Stop recording a project session.

Pause an active project.

Start a paused project.

This is the Add Project dialog box. Enter data as shown.

Menu Bar Controller

This is the menu bar controller. The controller displays the total time and total charges of selected project. Select the project via the project selecting menu, as show in the image. You can also pause/resume and start/stop the selected project. Note: you must select a project, whether via the application or the menu bar, in order to control it via the menu bar.

Go to the Khronos Preferences to configure the menu bar controller. All items can be displayed or removed from the menu bar.

Keyboard Shortcuts, etc.

• Open Preferences: Apple ,
• Open Window: Apple W
• Save: Apple S
• Print Setup: Shift Apple P
• Print Invoice: Apple P
• Minimize Khronos: Apple M
• Hide Khronos: Apple H
• Donate: Apple D
• Help: Apple ?
• Close Edit/Add Menu: Apple Escape

Editing Sessions and projects

Here are the formats to use when editing Sessions or projects:

• Dates: 12/12/2004 is M/D/Y
• Times: 12:12:12 is H:M:S
• Times can be also entered as such: 12:12:12, 12:12, 12:1212 pm, 12:12 pm
• Rates: 15 is 15 units of currency per hour

Importing and Exporting Data

Exporting

Exporting takes the current data and exports it. It'll save the data as a .khd file. The file is tab delineated, so feel free to import it into MS Excel or a similar program.

Importing

For importing, select the .khd file you want to import. Khronos will import the data. projects of the same name and client will display twice in Khronos. The data will not be merged, so the session data will be different, but the project and client names will exist twice.

You can as well import data exported from version 1.0 or 1.1. Just go to import and select the folder.

It's best to import files that have been directly exported from Khronos and not changed in any way.

Known Issues

• Timer will continue during sleep. Make sure to "Stop Recording" before putting your computer to sleep.
• More improvements to come. Won't list them here since they're so sweet that we wouldn't want the competition to get a head start on us.

Donating

As you might know, Khronos is free. You don't have to give us anything. It's not cripple-ware. It won't stop working in 30 days.

How to Donate

However, if you have the itch to get us some beer money, then you can donate via paypal.

Why the Crap Would I Donate to You Guys?

• We put a lot of time into it.
• It works.
• You want us to have a beer on you.

Thanks

Thank you to all who have donated. We appreciate it.

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