Often you want to spend a particular amount of time doing a task, e.g. "spend 3 hours cleaning the apartment". It would be great if Todo would keep track of how much time you've already spent. So, you'd create the task "clean apartment" with the duration "3 hours". There'd be buttons in Todo, "start working on task" and "stop working on task", which you could press when you start/stop working on the task. Todo would then keep track of how much time is left, and would mark the task "Completed" once the duration has passed (and perhaps alert you with an alarm).
This would save you from having to explicitly break a complex task into sub-tasks: you'd just make sure to spend a given amount of time on the complex task, and would break it down on-the-fly as you do it. This would also make it easy to do a long task in several time intervals. Combined with the "repeating tasks" suggestion given earlier, this would make it easy to get long-term goals done, e.g. "spend 3 hours every week reading on given subject", or "spend 1 hour each day exercising". Todo could even "roll over" the time into the next week or period -- e.g. if you only spent 2 hours this week reading then it could add the hour to next week's instance of the repeating task, creating a 4-hour reading task. In keeping with GTD method, you wouldn't have to plan _when_ you do things, but Todo would help ensure _that_ you do them whenever you can. thanks, ilya --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Learn more about Todo, Notebook (notes available everywhere), and AccuFuel (fuel efficiency tracker) on Appigo's website: http://www.appigo.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Appigo Todo" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/appigo-todo?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
