Task estimates functionnality
oboulanger says:
I have been playing around a little with task estimates without being able to find a true benefit from it.
I was hoping that when I would set a task due date to say Thursday AND set the time estimate to 2 days I would see in the OVerview page:
- on wednesday in the Today tab the task due today, and in the tomorrow tab I would simultaneously see the task as well.
- On Thursday the task would only be Visible in the today tab.
A side effect if this fucntionnality would be to have what is currently labeled as the "Due Date" as either a start date or end date.
Currently my workaround for this is to repeat tasks multiple days, but I think there could be some benefit from increased functionnality with the Time Estimate.
I was hoping that when I would set a task due date to say Thursday AND set the time estimate to 2 days I would see in the OVerview page:
- on wednesday in the Today tab the task due today, and in the tomorrow tab I would simultaneously see the task as well.
- On Thursday the task would only be Visible in the today tab.
A side effect if this fucntionnality would be to have what is currently labeled as the "Due Date" as either a start date or end date.
Currently my workaround for this is to repeat tasks multiple days, but I think there could be some benefit from increased functionnality with the Time Estimate.
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Thanks for your feedback.
Our original thought with time estimates is that they would be useful for tasks that take less than a day (and if you had a task that took more than a day, you could break it up into smaller tasks).
Then, you could use this to see the time you've estimated for a particular day ('how much work do I have to do on Friday'), or for a particular list ('how many hours do I have left in my Work list').
The difficulty with multiple day time estimates is that we don't know when you plan to complete the task -- it may not be on consecutive days. We'd probably need start and end dates to do this properly.
Any feedback on how people are using time estimates and/or would like to be using them is appreciated :)
Our original thought with time estimates is that they would be useful for tasks that take less than a day (and if you had a task that took more than a day, you could break it up into smaller tasks).
Then, you could use this to see the time you've estimated for a particular day ('how much work do I have to do on Friday'), or for a particular list ('how many hours do I have left in my Work list').
The difficulty with multiple day time estimates is that we don't know when you plan to complete the task -- it may not be on consecutive days. We'd probably need start and end dates to do this properly.
Any feedback on how people are using time estimates and/or would like to be using them is appreciated :)
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