Timebox tasks retroactively to show a calendar that reflects how you actually spent your time
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Cezar A.P.
Rather than using Timeboxing to plan when I want to work on a task, I'd like to be able to add a task to the calendar when I complete it, showing when I worked on it. The duration of the event created would be the "actual time" on the task, and it's end time would be the moment the task is completed.
I'd like to look back at my calendar at the end of the day and visually see how I actually spent my time, not how I planned to spend my time.
Travis Meyer
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The actual time you track on tasks is now visualized in the calendar.
If you drag a task to a time in the past (assuming it hasn't already been scheduled to the calendar in the future), it will create an actual time record for that task, rather than scheduling a regular calendar block.
This new option is enabled by default and works retroactively.
It should now feel much easier to look at your calendar at the end of the day and understand where your time actually went.
Check out the walkthrough to learn more: https://www.loom.com/share/a1257bd384b146a7ba29432f6263cbd5
Dustin Bowser
Yes absolutely needing this in my workflow where I have only partial control of my days. I need to be able to see where my time goes when the unexpected meetings pop up etc.
hairboat
Yes! Love this idea. Sunsama knows the actual duration + the time I clicked the "done" button already. So say I hit Done at 11:15am on something I said took 45 minutes - Sunsama could throw that task on my calendar retroactively as a 45-minute event at 10:30am that day. It wouldn't be completely accurate if I didn't use the per-task time tracking feature, which I don't always do because I'm a chronic multitasker, but it would still be a solid enough estimate.
Would love to see this as a setting to toggle with ability to override for individual tasks.