DayBack can now show the percent complete for each of your open projects. If you love the Gantt Chart style of the calendar’s Horizon View, progress bars let you visualize the completion of your tasks as deadlines approach. Progress Bars & Percent Complete Progress bars are great for understanding estimated hours vs. actual hours or […]
Project Management
Automated Reminders Part 2
In November, we demonstrated how you could use DayBack’s custom actions to integrate your calendar with 3rd party apps outside of FileMaker and Salesforce. We showcased an app action that integrates Helpscout, our customer service system. When we want to follow up on an email or an issue, our team members can press a button […]
Improved Calendar Analytics – Targets & Goals
Chart Your Schedule You’ll find a couple of new tooltips in DayBack’s charts and analytics. These should help you make better sense of your targets over long timescales and see how close you are to meeting them. The new tooltips are doing some date math for you. Here’s how they work: If you’re new to […]
Automate Reminders
When we make promises to our customers, we often create reminder events in DayBack to follow up on the commitments we’ve made. In today’s post, we’ll show you a customization we built to automate reminders by integrating DayBack with our help desk platform. We use Help Scout to manage our customer service workflow, but we […]
Scarcity: the Science of Resource Scheduling
We know that working under tight deadlines leads to childish thinking: the greater the time pressure, the more we revert to mental models from childhood. Research also shows that we predictably make bad decisions when we’re short on time. In Scarcity, Mullainathan and Shafir tweak classic experiments in behavioral economics by introducing various kinds of […]