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Managing Your Timers


CoreData Storage

empty imageRatRace leverages CoreData to store Your Data to ensure consistency and correctness in Your stored Timer data as well as fast and efficient means of storage on disk.


Export

ExportRatRace encourages You to put your recorded Timer Data to use in other applications by providing XML and CSV (Comma Separated Values) export features.

Put recorded Timer Data to use in Spreadsheets, Wordprocessors, Billing Applications or any other application that reads XML and CSV files.


Printing

empty imageTo visualize your recorded Timer Data RatRace leverages the power of the Mac OS X Quartz 2D API that is part of the Core Graphics Framework to display crisp, clear and beautifully rendered graphics.

Utilizing Quartz 2D has the added benefit of automatically enabling equally crisp, clear and beautifully rendered prints.

Print out the Timer List View as well as the Time Line View the way you like it best with an array of useful Configuration Options.


Searching

QuickSearchTo quickly locate timers in your library put the toolbar quick search to the test. Directly interfaced with the RatRace Core Data backend the toolbar quick search allows You to query Your timer library and quickly find what you need.



Backup / restore

empty imageAlthough Mac OS X is amongst the most stable and secure operating systems available today we'd rather like to be safe than sorry. RatRace offers the possibility of backing up and restoring your timer data - just in case.



Viewing Timers

Timer list view

Timer List ViewThe View offers a familiar and neatly ordered list view as seen in numerous Cocoa applications. The timer list view is the main entry point for creating, editing and organizing your timers.





Auxiliary Estimate View

Auxiliary Estimate ViewThe Auxiliary Estimate View visualizs the time you've spent compared to your estimate.

This allows you both to keep a keen eye on your current work as it progresses as well as to review the accuracy of your estimates with past work.

Using the auxiliary estimate view


Time Line View

Time Line ViewThe Time Line View provides a visual interface that will display the time you have spent and when you have spent it for any timer you have created in RatRace.

Using the Time line view



Organising Your Timers

Folders

FoldersKeeping organized and focused in RatRace is a breeze with Folders. RatRace allows You to Create any number of Folders and store any number of Timers in them.




Smart Folders

Smart FoldersWhen the going gets tough the tough puts Smart Folders to use. Smart Folders allows you to create Folders whose Contents are defined by Queries. This means that you can have Folders that contain only Running Timers, Folders that hold Timers with blue labels, Folders with Timers whose recorded Time exceeds Your Estimate and virtually any other criteria you may think up.

Using smart folders


Sorting and Ordering

SortingThe Timer List View allows you to sort Your Timers either ascending or descending - or order them according to your own liking.





Labelling by Color

Labelling by ColorUse colored labels to indicate priorities, to informally group Timers together, to easily identify the task you are working on or any other criteria you may think of.