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The ability to “time box” tasks onto the calendar view is a start, but it’s not enough.

More often than not, I’d argue, a task requires multiple sessions to complete, e.g. to write a blog post or purchase a new product. You cannot realistically complete these tasks in a single session, yet according to the calendar view you must. Even so, having only a single time block for a task puts a huge amount of pressure onto you to complete the task within the respective block.

Thus, I’d like to be able to schedule a task onto the calendar view multiple times, with each time block linking to the task at hand. This way, one can tackle the task at a comfortable pace, especially for those that cannot be realistically accomplished in one sitting.

This is the most important feature (most) modern calendars are missing!

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  • Linked to Feature Request: Time Slots for Griply

  • Teal Whale

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    Oct 9

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    Merged request

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    3 votes

    Time-block feature

    What is this feature?

    this feature make you pick an time for something you usually do, not a task nor an hobbit. an example for that will be the time you are working, an time when you are sleep, an time you do something, Usually i add it as task but i get to many conflict that it will be hard to read the timeline.

    Why this feature helpful for me?

    this help with only with organizing the timeline to understand what you have and where about. i do that to see clear how many hours i have, or how many hours i will have while at this time.

    i have attached what i usually do, what i have in mind it to make for example work hours, start from time and end at time with custom days, also it shows in the time line but in diffrent format and it not put as task or hobby.

    and lastly

    thank you for making this amazing project and hope it will keep growing 🙌

    • Ivory Gust

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      Sep 28

      I do similar. I make a Focus block, then drop tasks in next to it. Would be better if it was native.

  • Ivory Gust

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    Sep 14

    Yes. I don’t understand why every single Task app out there thinks you only work on a Task once.

    We really need to be able to schedule multiple time slots to do Tasks - both from the Task view itself, and the Calendar view.

    These “work sessions” should be able to be seen on the Task and Calendar. And we should be able to have as many as we want. And set them recurring for the same time automatically if we want (but not as a habit that needs to be tracked).

  • Blue Orbit

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    Jun 7

    I’m expanding on the above until there is some consensus.

    There are two main upgrades the calendar view needs, in my view. The first is a), in addition to events , there should be a new paradigm akin to a “time slot” in Akiflow. The second is b), that tasks should be capable of having multiple scheduled blocks of time on the calendar synced together (instead of the encouraged one “box”).

    Here are the elements a calendar can or should have:

    Events, Time-blocks & Time Slots

    • Events: You carve out a block of time in the calendar for a specific event with a start and end time.

    • Time blocks: You reserve a fixed chunk of time in your calendar for a type of work, instead of specific event.

    • NEW! Time slots: Time blocks that allow you to drag-and-drop tasks into them, or have tasks pre-populate via a filter. Time slots are time blocks upgraded for modern planning applications.

    Time boxes & Task Blocks

    • Task boxes: You give a task a dedicated block in which to complete it.

    • NEW! Task blocks: You give a task multiple blocks to complete it.

    The non-underlined ones are staples of old calendar software where projects and tasks were never integrated into the calendar philosophy, and so the calendar was used to keep track of meetings primarily. The underlined points represent ways to take the calendar into the modern era like products Akiflow and Morgen have done. The modern era is characterised by planning and scheduling projects and tasks into the calendar, not just demarcating meetings/events, types of work, or specific one-time tasks. (The latter two being the most recent uses of the calendar.)

    All in all, there would be these elements:

    • Create Event (also used for Time Blocks)

    • Create Time Slot

    • Drag-and-drop tasks onto the calendar (as many times as you’d like, with all instances reflecting the same underlying task)

    😶‍🌫️

    • Ivory Gust

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      Sep 28

      I agree with this.

      1. Time Blocks for a type of work. Both manual and repeatable on a custom schedule (every day, every wednesday, every other tuesday, etc).

      2. Time slots. Basically the above, but you can drop tasks in to them. E.g., my so-called “Shitlist”. (Here, have dragged items next to a block, but it gives you an idea of what it could look like.)

      3. Task work times. - Should be able to add MULTIPLE time blocks to work on a task. Not just one, like there is right now.

      4. Events.

  • Tan Luggage

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    Jun 6

    Yes, please! It’s very important for me to be able to schedule one task into multiple time-slots, and be able to mark each slot as “done” rather than moving the task into the future, as if I haven’t worked on it. I appreciate this feature existing for goals, that’s already helpful.

    • Pink Tide

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      Oct 5

      I agree with this completely and am doing the same thing now. When something doesn’t get completed in the alloted time slot, I move the date to another day to complete it and it looks like I haven’t worked on it yet…