Grindstone 5 documentation
Grindstone 5 times your work, asks about the time you were away, and shows you where the hours went. Everything about how it works is here, starting with installing it.
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Installing Grindstone
Getting the beta onto Windows or a Mac and keeping it up to date.
Getting started
From first run to your first timed minute, and a tour of the window.
How Grindstone thinks
People, work items, assignments, time slices, traits and list values.
About the beta
What the beta includes, what’s coming, and moving to the launch release.
Tracking time
Timing your work
Starting, switching and stopping, one thing at a time.
The stopwatch
What you’re timing, outside Grindstone’s window.
When you step away
How Grindstone notices, and Welcome Back.
Editing recorded time
Splitting, moving, merging and deleting time slices.
Finding gaps
Working hours nothing is recorded for, and filling them.
Organizing your work
Views
Live tables of your work, and the system views behind the app.
Traits
The fields on everything, and lists to pick from.
Formulas
Patterns, the builder, and typing formulas yourself.
Formula functions
Every function, with the description Grindstone shows.
Charts
Charting any view, and pinning charts to the Dashboard.
The Dashboard
Statuses and pinned charts in one place.
Statuses and alerts
Formulas that keep watch, and when they speak up.
Actions
Filling in fields in one step from a view.
Timing readout and label
What the app bar shows while you time.
Setting up
Your data
Workspaces and folios
Creating, moving, copying and removing folios.
Coming from Grindstone 4
Importing a Grindstone 4 database.
Exporting
Excel workbooks, CSV files and copying to spreadsheets.
Privacy
What Grindstone sends, what it never sends, and turning it off.
Troubleshooting
Error messages, the log file, and getting help.