Hi,
I think it would be nice to have a "planned date/time" besides the start and due date/time. This is to differentiate between the date you plan to work on a task (planned date) and the date you actually start working on it (start date).
Also, I'm not sure how useful is the duration (between start and due date) which you implemented. I think it is better accomplished using a timer (which you could manually edit the time spent as well). This is because the due date as a concept is the final date before which the task must be completed, no later. And the start date is the date you start working on the task. So, you can start the task on 9:00AM on Monday for example, but the task has a due date on 3:00PM on Friday. But that does not mean that you worked on the task ALL THE TIME between Monday and Friday! This is where the timer comes into play.
For a good example on the "planned date/time" and "timer" functions, please check out the excellent open source manager app task coach at http://taskcoach.org/, if you don't know it already.
Finally, thank you for all the hard work in making quire as amazing as it is now! Looking forward to a bright future for Quire 😃
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Peggy, Nov 3, 2020
Hi Crystal, I also didn't want this to ruin the simplicity of Quire (because that's one of its best qualities), that's why I said it can wait. I know that keeping things simple is not so easy 😃
Fadel Makhzoum, Dec 29, 2016
Hi Fadel, Yes, we will have a timer in the future. With it, you will know how much time exactly you spent on a task. Would it be good enough to cover your need for the planned date/time? Thank you for the suggestion and example. We are looking forward to an even better Quire in 2017 too. 😃
Crystal, Dec 23, 2016
That's great to hear that you're working on the timer. But the planned date/time is something else, maybe you didn't understand what I mean.
But it's fine, it's not too important. Maybe I will talk about it again after the timer is available. One step at a time 😃
Fadel Makhzoum, Dec 23, 2016
Hi Fadel, Haha I understand. 😃 We actually already have info such as the actual and planned start/due dates and we just need a way to display them without compromising the simplicity and cleanness of Quire. Once we get to it, I will let you know! Thanks again for the idea. 👍
Crystal, Dec 27, 2016
Hi Emeste, You seem to love thin stripes! 😂 Let’s say I set a task to be due on 8/31 on 8/15, have worked on it for 3 hours, and today is 8/25. Then how would the horizontal stripe ('ceiling') on top of each task be displayed? A example would be nice. 😃
Crystal, Aug 18, 2017
Hi Fadel, Very true. 😃
Crystal, Dec 29, 2016
Hi Crystal,
regarding the "how to display the constantly growing mess of details without compromising the fantastically clean look of Quire" 😃, I thought about using the upper edge of the task row as a fill-up bar that could represent eg. the passage of time elapsed vs. estimated (the latter hinting also at the estimated duration of the task). What I mean is that each task would have a thin (eg. 1 mm), empty stripe "ceiling" (with maybe only its frame visible) that would gradually be filled with an opaque colour bar as the time passes. I think that when all this is kept relative (like %) to the set duration of the task, even the obvious discrepancies between order-of-magnitude of duration times between tasks wouldn't be a problem.
I'm thinking, it might get slightly crowded on the screen so I suppose it would take a lot of design skill to get this one right. But then again, that's one of the things that your team seems to have plenty of 😃.
Cheers!
emeste, Aug 18, 2017
😂 yeah, it would seem like that wouldn't it? It's partially incidental...
I just love the challenges you keep setting for me 😏 ! I'll try to get some visual samples for you. In the meantime, an idea just popped into my mind: even the added degree of freedom that you've just pointed-out (elapsed time vs. time worked on the task) should be possible to visualise if you think about the "ceiling stripe" as a single-task Gantt chart bar. I'll draw it to explain it more clearly 😃 .
emeste, Aug 19, 2017
Hi Emeste, Great! Will be looking forward to the visual samples & drawings. Love the interaction going on here. 👍
Crystal, Aug 21, 2017