Sometimes tasks are larger than the available continuous gap to put them into, but Griply does not give the option to schedule the same task in multiple blocks (eg. either side of a meeting) across the day/week during planning sessions
Amber Haccou
Team•
May 12
Curious to understand this better. Can you share a bit more about what you’d want it to look like in practice, for example whether it’s mainly about fitting the task into available gaps during planning, or also about how progress across the blocks would work?
Ivory Gust
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Sep 14
I would really like to be able to go on a Task and choose multiple time slots (or “All Day”) to work on it - and as many as I need.
This is not the same thing as making a habit. A habit is something you do with regularity, that you want to track. I don’t need insights, habit tracking, etc. I just have a Task that I know is going to take a while to finish, and so I want to work on it, say, 3 times over the course of a week.
I see it working that we can go on a Task view and choose time slots to work on it. Right now we can set a Start date and time and duration, but can only do it once. We just need to be able to make multiple time slots.
The same thing on calendar view - drag a Task in t multiple slots, or right click and duplicate/split/whatever.
Ivory Gust
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Sep 14
The other way this comes up… Currently in calendar, there is no way to schedule multiple work times for a task.
So you have to schedule a focus block multiple times for a goal, then open that focus block when you get to it, and assume you remember which task you wanted to do.
This is not helpful if you want to schedule a task a particular times.
Then the only other way is to duplicate a Task, which is not workable, as then you have to keep tabs on the same repeated Task everywhere, with different descriptions, etc.
Or you turn every Task in to a Goal to be able to do the same, but then that is unworkable because you need to be able to add Task descriptions, set success metrics (which can’t be done vs not done), etc.
We should just be able to drop a Task on to the Calendar in multiple slots, or create multiple work slots from the Task itself.
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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Ivory Gust
Aug 11
100%.
Due Date and DO Date are NOT the same thing. Yet every single Task Management program out there treats them the same.
Due Date is the date the item is due.
Do Date is a date you choose to work on it.
There is only one Due Date, and it should rarely move.
There can be multiple DO Dates.
We should be able to add as many "Do Dates/Work on This” Dates as we want on a Task.
Apricot Astronaut
Aug 19
•Merged request
•2 votes
Splitting tasks
Sometimes tasks are larger than the available continuous gap to put them into, but Griply does not give the option to schedule the same task in multiple blocks (eg. either side of a meeting) across the day/week during planning sessions
Amber Haccou
May 12
Ivory Gust
Sep 14
I would really like to be able to go on a Task and choose multiple time slots (or “All Day”) to work on it - and as many as I need.
This is not the same thing as making a habit. A habit is something you do with regularity, that you want to track. I don’t need insights, habit tracking, etc. I just have a Task that I know is going to take a while to finish, and so I want to work on it, say, 3 times over the course of a week.
I see it working that we can go on a Task view and choose time slots to work on it. Right now we can set a Start date and time and duration, but can only do it once. We just need to be able to make multiple time slots.
The same thing on calendar view - drag a Task in t multiple slots, or right click and duplicate/split/whatever.
Ivory Gust
Sep 14
The other way this comes up… Currently in calendar, there is no way to schedule multiple work times for a task.
So you have to schedule a focus block multiple times for a goal, then open that focus block when you get to it, and assume you remember which task you wanted to do.
This is not helpful if you want to schedule a task a particular times.
Then the only other way is to duplicate a Task, which is not workable, as then you have to keep tabs on the same repeated Task everywhere, with different descriptions, etc.
Or you turn every Task in to a Goal to be able to do the same, but then that is unworkable because you need to be able to add Task descriptions, set success metrics (which can’t be done vs not done), etc.
We should just be able to drop a Task on to the Calendar in multiple slots, or create multiple work slots from the Task itself.
Scarlet Galaxy
Oct 9
•Merged request
•13 votes
Time-block Tasks
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!
Linked to Repeatable / schedulable focus blocks
Linked to Feature Request: Time Slots for Griply