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ranbarton

For the moment, I am using notes for this, but exportable time fields would be handy.

Posted at 4:23pm on November 14, 2005

An integration (reimplementation?) with SlimTimer would be fantastic. Reports on estimates vs actuals would be a killer feature.

Posted at 3:00am on September 5, 2006

In my opinion, this should be a key development priority. See also related topic:

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/1027/

Posted at 10:02am on September 5, 2006

Don't say "reimplementation" :)

I'm looking into this from my end as well. RTM and ST have very similiar models for tasks/tags etc so that helps.

Posted at 9:39am on September 16, 2006

Should mention that I'm the developer of SlimTimer (slimtimer.com)

Posted at 9:40am on September 16, 2006

Hey, SlimTimer looks exactly like what I've been searching for.
Yes, integration would be very welcome.

Posted at 6:39pm on September 21, 2006

http://www.slimtimer.com/images/screenshots/report.png

It's too funny to see 'Office Space' references in software documentations everywhere. I love that! :)

I would appreciate an interaction between RTM and SlimTimer too.

Posted at 5:54am on September 26, 2006

I created a SlimTimer account, and think it covers many of the (completed) task _tracking and reporting_ needs I have. However, I much prefer RTM for task _management_

My ideal solution would be to use RTM as my to do-list manager, then if I am in "reporting" mode press a button 'track time', and be transported to ST for tracking and time reports. This would require ST to import the task list from RTM, while RTM could import duration, completion etc info from ST.

Richard, Emily, any plans in that direction?

PS Richard: one essential option still needed in ST seems to be to be able to add tasks that were done while offline. I only seem to be able to track time of tasks I am doing right now. On the other hand, duration off such offline tasks now already can be reported in RTM, so some mutual alignment there would be great.

Posted at 9:29am on September 27, 2006

@ademoor
interesting ideas. I thought about it and my opinion is that RTM should inherit ST's timetracking method. May be the ST-like time display is integrated in RTM on the left side, or even show the ticking time in the taskrow. Whatever, the timetracking should be done in RTM by pressing buttons for start/stop tracking. I think it would be annoying to switch between these two nice applications all the time. ST's role would be creating reports on RTM data. It could easily import all the needed data from RTM, including the manually set durations of tasks you've spoken from.

Posted at 11:14am on September 27, 2006

@ademoor: There is a very crude "Edit Entries" interface in ST that allows you to manually add time entries. I'm working on making SlimTimer work offline so that should be there in the future.

Posted at 9:37pm on September 28, 2006

Sounds good. What about the (API?) interaction with RTM, though?

Posted at 10:32am on September 29, 2006

I would love this feature!!!

Posted at 2:31pm on January 26, 2008

I am getting a Pro account next week! This is just getting to be a great tool. I have gotten so much done since using it, and this feature would make it a ton better! I had never heard of SlimTimer so I ran over and intalled and the Bubbles thing so it shows in my task bar. 100% awsome. Intigration with this would be AMAZING!

Posted at 5:55pm on January 26, 2008

wallace.sheehan

The ability to activate a timer on tasks and generate reports of time spent (actual, not an estimate) on tasks would be great. In the past I've used slimtimer to help me with my timesheets at work, and it worked well but I disliked maintaining two task lists (I used RTM as my task manager and just copied over tasks that I needed to track time on). Now I use RTM's completedBefore and completedAfter search operators to get a coarse look at the work I've done for reporting on my timesheets, but having the actual number of hours would be awesome.

Integration between the two apps would be cool--especially since not reinventing the wheel is cool. But I would also really like to see the UI for starting and stopping timers in the RTM UI and not have to go to a different site for tracking and reports whether or not RTM manages the timer's itself or not.

Posted at 7:43pm on April 30, 2008

jhclark

The above posts describe my dreams perfectly. With such a feature, I think I could convince many of my friends to not only start using RTM, but grab a Pro account.

RTM is already an amazing app, but I think this feature would bring it to a whole new level.

Posted at 7:05pm on August 17, 2008

SlimTimer is sharp, no doubt about it, but what about interfacing with TSheets?

Posted at 9:39am on August 18, 2008

miriam.lyons

Just backing up the call for a) a time tracking/reporting feature in RTM or b) an RTM task import option for any of the start-up time tracking services out there. I eventually gave up on trying to convince my co-workers to use RTM - but with this feature I'd definitely take another stab at it!

Posted at 5:29am on February 28, 2009

lennyjpg

1+

Posted at 9:19pm on March 17, 2009

Desperately needs time tracking. Check out how ToodleDo implemented it, something like that is needed.

Posted at 7:38pm on March 19, 2009

I really liked the way Forcedo did it. I thought that was better than Toodledo! However, I didn't like Forcedo or Toodledo in the end. Can we have something similar in RTM please?!

Posted at 10:05am on April 4, 2009

carmentalis

Seeing how this idea has first been requested three and a half years ago and there has been no official response whatsoever, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Forcedo has it, Toodledo has it, and I'm willing to bet that Google's bare bones task manager is going to have it before RTM does.

Despite all that, +1 for the idea, I'd love to have this.

Posted at 10:12am on April 4, 2009

mhack

It would be perfect! Please, implement it! :)

Posted at 8:47pm on May 6, 2009

I agree. Task tracking is needed. I started a topic requesting basic tracking Start date and Complete date with some basic reporting around it.

it is really essential.

Posted at 3:18pm on May 30, 2009

busbyjon

I'm working on a Slimtimer RTM sync tool

If enough people are interested.. I'll release this as a webapp...

Posted at 8:26pm on October 4, 2009

+1,
Please help us to TimeTrack own Tasks in RTM, Please, Please.
This is an essential feature for Task Management app.

Posted at 7:53am on October 6, 2009

+1,
Please!!

Posted at 11:52pm on October 7, 2009

soloviov

+1

Posted at 6:23pm on October 8, 2009

emanowusu

I just started using RTM yesterday. I like it so much that I have spent the greater part of today funneling all my various organizer tools into this system.

The only major feature RTM is missing is the ability to track the time spent on various tasks.

I'm a student so I have a lot of task like this: "Study for Exam X" or "Research topic Y". It would be nice to be able to start and stop a clock for each task as a way to monitor my progress on tasks that aren't completed in one sitting.

If you subscribe to the GTD methodology a major component is the periodic review. Being able to compare the estimated times to the actual time spent on various tasks is key to identifying problem areas.

+1

Posted at 10:17pm on October 10, 2009

+1

I love RTM so much, but I think I may have to give it up, because I need to be able to track time for work. I don't need a stop watch - just a way to enter a "start" and "end" time. Tags can be used for clients, so that's already taken care of.

Posted at 4:05pm on November 17, 2009

leah.shalom

I realize that this may be a bit cumbersom, but what about using the notes tab to record the start and end times until there is a better solution?

Posted at 1:43pm on November 18, 2009