Parallel tasks ?

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Parallel tasks ? I skimmed through the documentation and future plans and did 
not see anything about it.
I realize this application is intended for timing work activities and in 
general you can't be working on more than one thing. I am however in a 
situation where my projects overlap. I am working and doing my thesis, which is 
related to my work, and occasionally, but not always, those overlap. So it 
would be nice to have them parallel tasks.
How difficult would it be implement this?
I am thinking, you should be allowed to manually enter a worktime that overlaps 
with others, perhaps with just a warning. Will this affect the reports?

cheers,
Nik

Original issue reported on code.google.com by NikMano...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2013 at 7:18

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Hey Nik,

the main idea behind the application is that you can only work on one thing at 
a time, which makes sense, doesn't it? That is exactly what you do..
However what you say is that at a certain point in time you work on one task 
that belongs to two projects: your daily job and your thesis. Is that correct? 
In that way we should update the application to allow to couple a task to other 
projects. The reporting module will have to be redesigned in that case 
however...

If we just make overlapping time registrations possible that's not such a big 
change, the reporting module will be affected in this case but not that much. 
However I would like read your thoughts on my comment. I think it really is a 
problem where one task should be linked to two (or even more?) projects.

Original comment by dirkvran...@gmail.com on 13 Aug 2013 at 8:39

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Hi,

What you are proposing, about linking one task to one or more projects may also 
be useful but it is slightly different. I will give an example.
Say I have work meetings, and I also have thesis meetings. And those are in 
general separate events/tasks. Occasionally they coincide, and I have a meeting 
that is related to both. In that case, according to your proposal, I would have 
to create a third task that belongs to both projects, because the other ones 
are generally separate.
On the other hand I could just make my separate tasks overlap once in a while.
I guess this is the key point here, that a task can be related to different 
projects sometimes, but not necessarily always.

Original comment by NikMano...@gmail.com on 13 Aug 2013 at 9:08