In the Time Matters Document Management System lets you check out a document, preventing conflicts if two users try to change the same document.

You can customize the Time Matters document management system to specify Client and Matter field names that differ from the default choices: Contact Name and Matter Name.

If you are replacing the computer or drive storing the Document folders used by Time Matters, you will need to make some changes. On every user computer, you will need to change a setting in Time Matters File Locations.

Sometimes all you need in Time Matters is to filter a Contact or Matter List to show certain people or Matters. You can create an Advanced Search and save it as a Filter without all the bother of creating a QuickTab.

Time Matters has a checkbox that determines whether Archived Records appear a Matter Form's lists of Notes, Documents, Emails, etc. That checkbox is well hidden and can be set individually for each user.

Time Matters has powerful features for adding your own fields to Contacts, Matters and other forms. You can track exactly the additional information you want. You can customize unused fields to hold numbers, email addresses and other information types.

Advanced Tip: Using advanced Time Matters features, you can create a Quick Tab on your Matters List to spot Matters that you may need to follow up on.

To prevent the most common complaints of legal clients, you can set a Time Matters Inactivity Watch to list Matters that have had no activity in the last 30 days, or a time period you select.

The Time Matters Inactivity Watch is easy to set up and will watch Matters, listing those that haven’t had activity in the last 60 days or any other number of days.

Time Matters automatically indexes all the words in all your records in the Time Matters database. You can easily perform a full-text search from the Time Matters Main Menu.