Tinn 0.5.0 ships today. If you have 0.4.0, your projects open in it as they are - the file format has moved forward and the update carries them across automatically, tested end to end.
Pricing the spec sheet properly
This is the biggest piece of the release. Four things landed, in order, all on the spec sheet:
- VAT and markup. Set a VAT rate and a markup for the whole project once (Norway defaults to 25%), and override either on a single line when a product needs it. Every total on screen and on the printed sheet reflects it. Markup itself never prints - it’s your number, not the client’s.
- An approved-price snapshot. When a client signs off on a price, freeze it. If a supplier changes the price later, you still have the number the client agreed to, next to the number it is now.
- Pattern repeat and waste by pattern. Give a fabric or wallpaper its repeat size and match type, and Tinn works out how much you really need. Tiles and flooring get their waste from the laying pattern you pick (straight, diagonal, herringbone, chevron) instead of a flat guess.
- Contingency. A project-level reserve percentage, applied once across the total, for the unknowns every project has.
Type something a spec box can’t use and you get a warning right there, instead of a total that’s silently wrong.
The Desk
There’s a new window: the Desk. It opens as its own window, snapped to the side of the main one or floating free, and it’s where the work that isn’t tied to a single project lives - overall tasks, overall notes, and a dashboard of what needs you across every project, including the ones you don’t currently have open. Turn it off entirely in Settings if you don’t want it.
Tasks now looks the same whether you’re looking at one project’s Tasks tab or the Desk’s overall list - same columns, same row, same rules, because it’s the same list underneath.
Drawing on Board
Board’s Line and Path tools now do what the Permits drawing tools already did: curved segments, click a line to add a corner mid-way through it, hold Shift to lock an angle, snap to the edge of another object, and type an exact length while you draw on a drawing you have set a scale for.
Finding things
- Search now works inside a project, inside the text of permit PDFs, and across every project from the start screen.
- The Versions tab is new: a grid for tracking status and payment across however many finish or price versions a room goes through, with its own print output.
- Revisions gives Plans the version switcher it never had, and Budget now follows whichever revision is active.
- Legends print on Plans now - building this uncovered that pinned products on a plan had never printed at all, which is fixed too.
Also in this release
- Saved templates bring everything with them. Apply a saved library template to a project and its waste, quantities, and pattern settings come along, not just the product itself.
- Categories can be created, renamed, merged, hidden, or deleted.
- Floors and zones print correctly on the spec sheet, and the three separate ways the app used to group rows by room are now one.
How to update
If Tinn is already installed, the auto-updater will prompt you on next launch and install over your 0.4.0 app. New here? Download from the Download page.
Simon