Chron main menu is the entry point of Chron application and has following commands:

• NEW TIME SHEET - use it to create new time sheet, i.e list of times
• FIND TIME SHEET - find time sheets saved by some criteria
• FIND TIME - find times saved by some criteria
• NEW ACTION - create new action, i.e useful name linked to some measured activity
• FIND ACTION - find actions by some criteria
• CLEAR DATABASE - clear all stored data
• HOW TO ORDER? - (only in demo version)explanation how to order full product version
• ABOUT - something about the developer :) - me, Nikolay Nikolov
• EXIT - exit from the application

Navigate to the item you want and press the commit button. It will open the screen needed.

To create new time sheet you must select the type of the counter you want - different or continous times and continue to the time sheet screen. Here you will see the counter on the top of the display. If the counter is not focused move the focus to it. Now in options menu you will see "START" command. It is because this command is default item command. What does it mean? It means that the command is available only when the item has the focus and it is executed by the menu or by pressing default commit button. Press the commit button and now you will see the counter starting to count the time.

When the counter starts to count, default command changes to "TICK" command. Now you could use the commit button to tick the times you are interested in. Press the commit button as many times as you want to tick the times you are intertested in. Now you have a list of times.

You will stop the counter when you want by using "STOP" or "STOP and TICK" commands. The difference between them is what you suppose - stop the counter or tick the time before to stop and stop the counter. When you stop the counter, the counter default command is "START" again, so you can continue to count when you whant that.

Now you have list of times which you can manage. Maybe you want to delete some of the times. On you screen menu you have nice functions to delete selected times "DELETE TIME(S)", to delete all times "DELETE ALL TIMES", to select all times "SELECT ALL TIMES", unselect all times "UNSELECT ALL TIMES". Last two commands are useful if you want to delete all time items except some of them, so it is not needed to mark one by one time items, but just to unmark the items which you don't want to delete.

Maybe you will want to add some useful information to the time sheet, for example name of the time sheet, some description. If you need that select "TIME SHEET DETAILS" menu item. Now you will see the time sheet details screen.

To edit some item, for example the name, move the focus to the item and you will see in the menu new command "EDIT NAME" or "EDIT DESCRIPTION". This command is a default item command so you could run it by the menu or by pressing the commit button. It will open new screen in which you could enter name or description. In this screen you have 3 commands. "SAVE" saves the name or description, "BACK" just move to the previous screen without saving, "CLEAR" cleares the content entered and after this you could enter another.

After you enter some name and save, you will move to the details screen again, so enter the details which you need. On the time sheet details screen you have option to "EXIT" the application, to jump to "MAIN MENU" or to "SAVE" the details. Details will be saved but not in the database. They will be saved in the database after you save all the time sheet.

Lets move again on the time sheet screen. There is an option to select some time item and run "TIME DETAILS" command.

On this screen you can edit selected time details. For selected time you could enter time action, creation date and description. Details edit mechanism is the same like for the time sheet details. Just focus the item and press commit button or select the appropriate edit command from the menu. If the time was saved before, when you select "SAVE" command , the time will be saved and it is not needed to save all the time sheet to be sure that information is stored in the database. You will be informed by information message. Now you have new time sheet, congratulations.

You could search time sheets stored in the database by selecting "FIND TIME SHEET" command from the main menu. You could search by time sheet name, times type and date interval. You could order the results as you want.

On the time sheets found screen you could delete time sheets found, review or modifie some items. You have "BACK" commands to move back to times found screen.

You could search times stored in the database by selecting "FIND TIME" command from the main menu. You could search by time action, date, time. You could order the results as you want.

On the times found screen you could delete times found, review or modifie some items, review or modify the time sheet in which time is stored. You have "BACK" commands to move back to times found screen.

You could enter some useful names to some measured activities used in the application and use it to attach it to times. For example every day you swimming, you enter new action swimming and attach that action to your swimming times. Later it is usefull to find times for activity which you are interested in.

The principle of editing time action name and description are the same like in time sheet details, i.e focus the item and press the commit button or select the edit command from the menu.

You could search time actions stored in the database by selecting "FIND ACTION" command from the main menu. You could search by name and date. Results could be ordered as you want. On the actions found screen you could delete actions found, review or modifie some items. You have "BACK" command to move back to actions found screen.

You could clear all the database by selecting "CLEAR DATABASE" command from the main menu. You will be asked to confirm the delete operation and if you do that, all the database will be cleared, so be carefull if you don't want to clear.