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Estimated time

PRO

alexhao 01/31/2014 06:48

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Hi.

I would be great if in task options you add option: estimated time.

Why it need:

For example.
I have 30 minutes free.
I finish all my tasks for today.

I open, for example, "Next". And check in the list of task how much time need to finish each task.

I will be easier to choose what to do for 30 minutes free and no need to read each task and think how much time need to do it.

martoj post on 02/02/2014 10:19#1

PRO

I support the idea.
Added the option to set the time on each task, that's great! Now would be necessary to have a filter to choose the tasks according to the estimated time.

If I have 15 minutes to spare before a meeting, would be able to choose tasks with a time of 15 minutes or less
Folke post on 02/02/2014 14:46#2

PRO

I have had that functionality available in other apps, and have tried to use it, but decided not to bother with it, because:

- the difficulty (and thereby the time) is often quite difficult to estimate

- the estimated time depends on what context you assume that you will be starting from. For example, for a task like "Buy bread" do you write 1 minute, assuming you are already at the shop, or 1 hour, assuming you start out from your jacuzzi ;-)

- it takes time to enter this estimate for every task, and its usefulness is not in proportion to the work.

What I do now is I just tag some tasks as "High effort" (long time, high energy, great reluctance to overcome etc.) and vice versa for "Low effort". Most of my tasks have no such tag, which saves time spent on task entry.