Open vavta opened 1 year ago
Happy to hear it is helpful! I built it initially for myself, but it was a pity not to share it.
About your proposal: it makes sense and should be easy to implement.
However, before going for it, I would like your opinion on an alternative that a colleague of mine proposed: have the workflow remember the latest tasks and propose them in the prompt while typing (a kind of autocompletion, but based on your history).
The user experience while starting a new task is similar to what you propose. The difference is that it doesn't require storing a pre-made list. The downside is that it offers slightly less control.
Thanks for replying promptly. This solution also sounds very reasonable. It makes a lot of sense, especially if you have many repeating tasks like meetings, work on the same project etc..
Still, I think if you have more fragmented and non-repeating work (reading and writing of documents, coding, meetings, experimenting in the lab, analyzing data, building prototypes, mails, etc.) things might get complicated fast. In my case, I don't work exclusively on one project or one kind of task for an extended period of time.
In my proposal, I was not so much thinking about a premade (category) list but rather taking the entries of an apple reminders list, which acts as my inbox/backlog of my to-dos.
Having said this, maybe a premade list would be a good (intermediate) solution? Having several categories to quickly choose from and add an individual identifier / name would be helpful too and at the same time flexible.
Again, I cannot stress enough, how good your workflow is! It is the first solution for time tracking that makes sense to me, since it writes to my calendar and obeys KISS.
Thank you very much for your work, I love your workflow!
I want to propose a new feature:
If I start a time tracker, selecting a reminder from my (default) reminders list would be very helpful.
Benefits: Reminders and timetracker would be more in sync, and I would stop using “general work” as my goto name for my tasks.