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Total time spent on completed tasks

ademoor says:

When toggling between completed and incomplete tasks of a given list, I see the same time estimate of the incomplete tasks also occurring on the completed tasks-list. Is there a way to see the total time _spent_ on completed tasks? Would be even better if one could indicate the range of dates between which to add up those time-spents. This would be very useful when reporting to the boss on how much more time a certain project took than he thinks it did :-)

Posted at 8:01pm on July 5, 2006

emily (Remember The Milk) says:

ademoor, there's currently no way to see time estimates for completed tasks -- but that's something we can look at adding if people would find it useful to see how much time they've spent :)

Posted at 1:37pm on July 8, 2006

irian says:

I second this request :)
It's also rewarding to see how much time you've already spent on a task, and helps on answering the question "what did I do with my day?"

Posted at 5:09pm on July 8, 2006

shk says:

Yes, good idea! Definately allows for better time management.

Make this an optional feature though, as we don't want the window to get too crowded. :D

Posted at 2:40pm on July 10, 2006

stijnchristiaens says:

This could easily be a subpart of the overview. Click overview, then choose whether you want past, present, short and distant future.

This kind of functionality is really hot, as it is ideal for management. Managers really crave this kind of information, because they can know and understand where all their people's time (and their money) has gone to. As such, this would also be ideal in rememberthemilk key selling points.

Posted at 11:39am on August 3, 2006

ademoor says:

Sounds good. For now, the binary distinction between (default) future and past view would already be great.

Emily: just a simple adding up of time spent would be _so_ helpful. Right now, I am adding up hours by hand, adding to the stress that this great service helps reduce otherwise! No need to implement major new functionality, you could just reuse whatever you use now to calculate total time on to do-s, if 'past' overview is selected, you would naturally look back, you can even use the same layout as for the to do-view.

Dreaming on, a more complete 'reporting module' would be great: select a few tags and/or lists, start-end dates, level of detail, and a printable html-page could be generated that I could show to my boss to convince him that I really need that holiday...

Posted at 3:32pm on August 8, 2006

douglascaixeta says:

This feature will be just perfect!!!!
Please do it!

Posted at 11:43pm on February 19, 2009

mayberrypie says:

Yes I would really really like this feature to be added!

Posted at 1:57pm on June 17, 2009

jafish says:

This one feature is what is keeping me from using RTM. I've found it so useful in The Hit List (app for mac) that I've switched to that, even though it doesn't have any syncing capabilities. I would gladly support RTM with a pro account if this feature was available.

Posted at 3:41pm on July 2, 2009

robzyc Pro says:

I would also really, REALLY love to see "Time Spent" added to RTM.. I am also currently tracking by hand it is a real pain (easy to forget etc) - plus estimates vs actual is such a common requirement for many time management processes.

Posted at 7:41am on July 6, 2009

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