One-click 'schedule' button for tasks
under review
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Benjamin
From a basic workflow perspective, it can be frustrating to have to drag a task onto the calendar and then manually set a due date. In 99% of cases, all I really want to do is move a task that's in my inbox or a list down the road a little - i.e. snooze it or schedule it to be looked at later on that week.
What i'd love to be able to do is right mouse click on a task to bring up a sub menu and select 'schedule' and then in one click be able to either select 'Later today', Tomorrow', 'Next Week' or a specific date etc.
Danny Hatcher
Hello Everyone.
We are looking for AI planner users to test a schedule task button option.
Please become an insider in our discord server to start testing: https://discord.gg/RQxy6Pdt5FDiscord
Danny
Danny Hatcher
Merged in a post:
Auto-adjust start and end time for tasks for better time-tracking
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Jeff Noble
Scheduling tasks in advance is very useful for giving priority to the most important tasks of the day. However, for many of the smaller tasks it's tedious to place them on the calendar and checking them off in the sidebar doesn't save any of the important information (time the task takes to complete, when it was done, etc).
It would be extremely useful to implement two features.
- Right click a task in the side bar to select an option like 'start now', which places it on the calendar. You could even start a timer or a focus mode as others suggested, but the 'start now' button/option is what would be invaluable here.
- When checking off a task for completion, the end-time of the task should be overwritten and updated to reflect when the task was actually completed.
Including these features as information that can be seen in archived tasks help users plan their days better and to avoid the consequences of Parkinson's law where work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
This is the reason I started using Morgen, to fully integrate tasks with my calendar to best optimize my task and time-management.
Danny Hatcher
under review
Danny Hatcher
This seems related to the time tracking request: https://morgen.canny.io/feature-requests/p/time-tracking-potential-integration
But also the productivity hub idea: https://morgen.canny.io/feature-requests/p/productivity-hub
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Jeff Noble
For the tasks already scheduled onto the calendar, you could also include this feature, to right-click them and select 'start now' which would update their start time.
Also, let's say you are working on a task, and it runs into a scheduled task on the calendar. You could maybe press a 'pause' button on the previous task (or clicking start now on the new task could automatically pause existing/ongoing ones). Then a resume pop-up button in the sidebar could appear and have you jump back into the previous task when ready.
This solves what I view as the major issue of Toggl and several other task management softwares (TickTick, ToDoist, Clockify). Toggl Track doesn't accommodate to-do lists very well and Toggl Plan does not work with daily calendar views nor have as usable as an interface as Morgen. Morgen fits the niche of personal task/time management (which can extend to team management in the future). Toggl does have other features (billable hours using tags, scheduling time off, board views, etc) which could all come eventually to Morgen eventually, but having a feature now for flexible start/end times avoids the pitfalls of parkinson's law (things taking longer to complete than needed) as well as avoid the stress many people feel looking at a calendar fully time-blocked, where as soon as one thing runs over, it messes up the entire calendar system.
The only potential downside I see is the auto-adjustment of end-times for users who do not want tasks to always adjust the end-times to reflect when they checked-off the task; i.e. to prevent the need for users to always be checking their calendar. To solve this:
-> There could be a pop-up box. If the completed time is before the scheduled end time, auto-adjust it in the calendar to reflect the change (gain back the protected hours if you finish early).
-> If the task is completed after the scheduled end time, prompt the use to select current time (completed time) or previously scheduled time.
It instead could also be a feature in the settings or be included as another option when you right-click a completed task (you could 'switch' end time). If you record the time of completion as a different property than the estimated end time, you can always choose then which property to use.