💡 [FEAT] Add a doing status and timing the task currently doing

[JackTheMico]

Is your feature request related to a problem? 😢 Please describe. A to-do task has no "starting" or "doing" status. So sometimes I would forget what I was trying to do.

Describe the solution you'd like 🤔

1. Add a new " doing " status for the to-do class.
2. Add a timing mechanism(a background timer) to the current task so we can know how much time we spent on tasks.
3. Need to add a field for 2. to save the spent time to the todo.yaml file.
4. Alter the TodoWidget to show the spent time.

Describe alternatives you've considered 🧐

Additional context 📝 Thanks for creating this wonderful tool, I'd like to contribute because I'm learning how to use textual right now.

[kraanzu]

Hey @JackTheMico, I see the use case and it'd be great!

Questions: Let's say a user starts a task.

• Will the user need to stop the task manually to record time?
• Where do you plan to show the timer?

Thanks for creating this wonderful tool,

Thanks man!

I'd like to contribute because I'm learning how to use textual right now.

Sure! I can help as well after we are on the same page about the implementation :) There can a lot of attributes related to a todo so I'm thinking of a way to let user decide how the tasks should render but haven't been able to reach a good solution yet + I really don't get much time to work on the projects to the development has been quite slow :(

[JackTheMico]

My thoughts:

1. A user should be able to pause the timer or toggle the task to the done status to complete the recording of time.
2. I would like it to be shown at the status line personally, the format would be like --

[kraanzu]

I see. I'll have to test some things out so lets keep it on hold for a few days and then I can take a look ;)

[Arqamz]

You could add a wakatime plugin for this also that would be great for this 'timing'

[kraanzu]

Yes I'm working on implementing plugins. Its taking time but I guess might as well take some time rather than a bad api