Hello Toggl support and development team, I finally have to express my frustration. To make my business life easier, I have been using Toggl and Hazel (a Mac program for organizing, filing, and sorting - developed by Noodlesoft) for years. This has worked well for a long time, but since the reports were changed, everything has been chaotic. I could accept that the reports now have a different layout, even though the clarity and design suffer as a result of the configurability. And you still can’t hide the filters for the PDF. But the real problem is that the reports no longer work properly. It starts with the name. A manually created report has a different name than a saved one. The saved report does not contain the time period in its name, whereas the manually created report does, but in a different form than before (legacy report). In theory, Hazel can extract the title and time period from the content and rename the file—but not with the new reports from Toggl, where the title and time period are no longer readable by Hazel as a string and date. The information extracted from the PDF by Hazel is divided into several lines in an incomprehensible manner (see Hazel and report screenshot). In the legacy reports the period is still extracted as a date, but the report title is now missing from the content and file name, so automated renaming is not possible here either. I would change my 15 Toggl rules in Hazel again if it would only work. Although it is somewhat counterintuitive to have to constantly readjust an automated process. Ultimately, that makes automation pointless.
I understand your frustration with the PDF report changes affecting your automated workflow with Hazel. The issues you’re describing with the PDF structure, title extraction, and date formatting are significant concerns for automation purposes.
This sounds like a feature request to improve PDF report formatting and consistency so that third-party automation tools can reliably extract metadata like titles and date ranges. The current changes have broken the automation that previously worked smoothly with your Hazel rules.
Unfortunately, this is not currently possible to achieve with the existing Toggl features. The knowledge base doesn’t provide information about PDF report structure customization or legacy report options that would allow you to restore the previous extraction-friendly format.
Given that you’ve identified a specific use case that worked before and is now broken, and you have concrete examples of the extraction problems, this is valuable feedback about how report changes impact user workflows. I will share this with the product team so they’re aware of how the new report format affects automation and integration with tools like Hazel.
In the meantime, you might explore whether Hazel has alternative text extraction methods or if there are other workarounds for your file organization needs, though I recognize this isn’t an ideal solution when you’ve already built 15 automated rules.