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ThinkingRock Changelog

What's new in ThinkingRock 3.7.0

Apr 1, 2017
  • Team feature, see the article at http://www.trgtd.com.au/index.php/team-feature.
  • Send email directly through SMTP.

New in ThinkingRock 3.6.0 (Aug 31, 2016)

  • Software signed
  • Package all latest updates as part of trial and licenced software
  • An action will inherit the project due date if it is set. There is a set-up under the Miscellaneous/Projects tab to use the functionality or not.
  • You can now add a link to a folder. Before you could only add a link to a file.
  • When inserting a file or folder link, ThinkingRock knows remember the last folder you selected.
  • New functionality to create a reference item or someday/maybe item directly from thought.
  • Review Goals screen: new functionality to create a top project from the goal screen;
  • Goal levels: added colored icons to associate to goal level to improve visibility;
  • New functionality: Process Thought now. Most right button on toolbar has been added. You can select one or many thoughts (using mouse, ctrl or shift as per in Review Actions list) and press the button. The Process Thought screen is called with the selected thoughts at the top of the list.

New in ThinkingRock 3.4.2 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • Two new calendar views (monthly and yearly);
  • functionality to hide or not done actions on the calendar views,
  • timeline on daily and weekly calendar views;
  • choice for hour display (24 hour or AM/PM) on daily and weekly calendar views (set-up under Miscellaneous, Calendar tab);
  • new goal panel (read-only) when going through the goals;
  • week number on weekly view;
  • can select any of the calendar views as first screen;
  • help screen text font increased;
  • compatible with Java 1.7.0.

New in ThinkingRock 3.4 (May 3, 2012)

  • New functionality:
  • a daily calendar;
  • a weekly calendar;
  • default values for time and duration for scheduled action can be entered under the Miscellaneous/Action tab.
  • On the weekly calendar, if you double click on the day header,the day view for that day opens.
  • On both views, you can double-click on an action and update any fields. If the action is set to done, it is striked out but it still displayed so you can see how much you have done each day or how many meetings you had to join....
  • Other changes:
  • on process thoughts: delegate not mandatory anymore;
  • the criteria screen has been split into 3 (to solve bugs);
  • bug fix: search value not kept in Review Actions tab search filter;
  • bug fix: emails with blank subject were not imported.

New in ThinkingRock 3.0.3 (Apr 26, 2010)

  • 3.0.3 contains all the member-only modules delivered after the 2.2.1 release:
  • improved performance;
  • Global find - see demo;
  • Automatic backup - see demo;
  • Improved recovery process - see demo;
  • Someday/Maybe Review screen: Ability to select multiple items from the list and delete, reprocess them (now or later) or set the Tickle date - see demo;
  • New transactions on the Review Actions list: change action status, change project and change criteria - see demo;
  • Added a shortcut key to Set to Done operation;
  • More options for the project automatic sequencing: allow you to specify your project auto-sequencing defaults under the Project Tab settings. The auto-sequencing has also been changed to include or not Scheduled and/or Delegated actions;
  • Improved Archiving process;
  • Email retrieval: option to keep the emails on the server;
  • 3.0.3 contains and the following new functionality:
  • maintain Delegate To list;
  • ability to enter a free text for the Delegate To field as well as selecting a value from the drop down list. You can specify the default mode for the field under the Actions Preferences;
  • when delegating, the text in the Notes includes a timestamp and the Delegate;
  • new ical export for project (current and future) due date;
  • letter format for all Jasper Reports;
  • default paper size for the 3 reports called from the project node and action node can be specified under the Project preferences;
  • pocketmod reports available in letter format;
  • global find - improvement: can double click to go to the item/action/project;
  • project export/import;
  • project reports: include done actions or not if shown or not on the project tree;
  • email fetching: ability to save the email attachment(s) under a user-specified folder;
  • new look for Mac users;
  • Reference items and Someday/Maybe items can be added directly from the Review screens;
  • Notes field has been modified so that user can copy and paste between applications without loosing the Edit mode setting + can link to reference item within the notes. See demo;
  • can delete multiple thoughts within the Collect Thoughts screen;
  • no more Member Login Tab.
  • Technical note: 3.0.3 is built on the new version of Netbeans (6.5).

New in ThinkingRock 2.2.1 (Apr 20, 2009)

  • Internationalization of TR: English American and French versions available. Spanish, German and Dutch versions coming soon, pending review from translators. The reports are NOT translated yet.
  • Email retrieval into thoughts: a manual option was part of the members only modules. We have added automatic retrieval at start-up and at regular interval.
  • Layout improvement on Process Thoughts screen, Project panel and Action panel.
  • Improvement and bug fixes for the iCal functionality.
  • Bug fix on delegated email regarding non-English and special characters.
  • Default status setting when processing a thought.
  • Search filter: search for the text entered on the direct project description has been added.
  • Small change: option Save To renamed to Backup.

New in ThinkingRock 2.0.1 (Oct 8, 2008)

  • buttons are back;
  • changed terms Future Items to Someday/Maybe Items and Information Items to Reference Items.
  • new date picker window with buttons for next month/year, previous month/year;
  • allow direct entry;
  • user can specify date format under preferences/options/dates;
  • user can choose first day of the week under preferences/options/dates;
  • space bar now opens the date picker window;
  • Enter key takes the date where the cursor is positioned and closes the window;
  • Esc key closes window without selection.
  • You can specify the character encoding under preferences/options/Import Thoughts.
  • Thought's notes carried to project's notes when project created;
  • allow user to enter project name when creating new project;
  • action and sub-project takes the priority of the project they created under, unless user has entered a specific priority;
  • Someday/Maybe is the default instead of Delete in the choice for non-actionable;
  • add scrollbar for actionable section;
  • can tab out of the Success field.
  • multi-columns ordering: one click to select columns one by one, double click to change the first order column;
  • ordering of the criteria columns as per definition and not alphabetically anymore;
  • filtering: exclusion of null available for dates and criteria;
  • sorting of Action date and Due date is first by date today;
  • new button: show filter line or not. By default, the setting is to show the line;
  • Print screen back! (A4 format only in this version, Letter format will be released with reports changes). Specify parameters under Preferences/options/Actions Screens.
  • added duration as a column;
  • all settings, except the bars position, saved in a separate file called ReviewAction.xml. The file can be shared between different platforms. The file will be saved under the same folder as the data file. We recommend that you do a backup of that file in a different directory.
  • for all the fast entry users: F5 to swap between project tree panel and action panel;
  • F3 and F4 working from anywhere in the 2 panels;
  • focus when action is converted to project is set to the new project;
  • action and sub-project takes the priority of the project they created under;
  • change context and change topic dialog windows: focus on the list for quicker data entry;
  • allow project creation date to be updated. Need to allow it under Preferences/Options/Projects.
  • Wizard to enter recurrency details or modify them;
  • new options for recurrency: every Monday, Tuesday and Friday; every 2, 15 and 27 of each month; every 2nd Monday of the month; every 6th March, 6th June and 6th October.
  • please note that "start date basis" recurrency is now called "regular" and "done date basis" recurrency is now called "subsequent".
  • Do ASAP action: Due Date;
  • Inactive action: earliest between Start Date and Due Date;
  • Scheduled action: Scheduled date and time;
  • Delegated action: earliest between Start Date and Follow-up date;
  • done actions: null.
  • 2 new buttons to add date and timestamp at cursor position. Can use shortcut keys Ctrl+Shift+D for date, and Ctrl+Shift+T for time;
  • bug fix: double click will show the cursor; double click to select a word working.
  • You can specify the character encoding under preferences/options/Exports and Reports.
  • Items: added Notes and Tickle Date;
  • Actions: added Due Date, Start date, Success, Priority, Time, Energy and duration for scheduled action.
  • new screens with layout similar to Review Actions;
  • filters added including a Topic filter;
  • buttons back.
  • each new version of TR remembers its own list of data files, i.e. it does not remember the one from the previous version;
  • Add link to our website on help menu;
  • Free distributable UTF-8 font definition added to standard distribution (for reports and Print Screen);
  • bug fix: link to files with an "&" in the path name or web url now working (used to not work on PC only).

New in ThinkingRock 2.0 Epsilon (Jan 7, 2008)

  • Focus problems on the Review Projects and Review Actions tree panel have been fixed;
  • A few bugs on the recurrency functionality have been fixed;
  • All known Java errors have been fixed;
  • New file operation: Open Recent. Let you select the data file to open from the last 10 most recent data files you have open;
  • New option under Projects Set-up: default value for the status of the action created when using Add Action (F3);
  • A few shortcut keys had to be changed as we want them to be the same on the 3 platforms. Please look on the right-click menu or on the Shortcut keys help for the details.