Cushion

Unless you’re the most fortunate freelancer in the world, you know how much a late invoice can cost you. Whether it’s the mental space reserved for remembering to following up or the time spent stressing over the wording, a late invoice is an unnecessary (and unbillable) distraction from your actual work. Fortunately, we have a new feature to take the weight off your shoulders—client invoice reminders!

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Time-tracking in Cushion has been getting better and better with each improvement. So far, however, people have only been able to track time from within the browser. After months of beta testers knocking at our door, we’re finally ready to release the menubar app beta!

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Planning is a big part of every freelancer’s workflow. Whether you’re estimating hours for a project or prioritizing tasks for the week, knowing what you need to work on and how long it will take you is essential for staying on track. Up until now, we’ve focused on the bird‘s eye view in Cushion, but for the past 2 months, we’ve been heads-down on a much more detailed look—the Planning View!

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Cushion has always been great at visualizing an overview of your schedule and income, but the graphs only provide one angle—there’s so much more Cushion could reveal if we would dig deeper into the details. Instead of adding to the graphs, we decided to introduce a new element to the Track and Invoice sections—summary stats.

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Cushion uses lists to categorize projects. By default, these lists represent the status of a project—“Active”, “Potential”, “Completed”, etc. Prior to today, moving projects between lists was cumbersome. You’d have to leave the current page and select the new list from a dropdown menu. Realizing that people often needed to move several projects at once, we decided to make this process more intuitive—with drag and drop lists.

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