Make completed tasks on the calendar reflect actual time rather than planned time
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Fabio Bracht
Some practitioners of timeboxing want the calendar at the end of the day to reflect how time was actually spent rather than how it was planned to have been spent.
This distinction of planned versus actual is really huge to me, which is one of the big reasons I fell in love is Sunsama immediately.
But I think planned time has too much of a spotlight as it is.
Ideally, the Daily Planning ritual should be all about the planned time for tasks, while the Daily Shutdown should be all about the actual time spent (or not spent) on them.
On Daily Planning stage, the tasks should appear on the calendar according to the planned time, but on Shutdown stage, the calendar should be reflective of the execution of that plan. There could even be a way to compare both! (Maybe have the Daily Planning ritual take a snapshot of the calendar state at the end of it, and then show it during Shutdown alongside the current state of the calendar?)
Travis Meyer
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The actual time you track on tasks can now be visualized on the calendar.
Regardless of whether that actual time was set via completing a task with planned time, running a timer, or manually entering an actual time, you'll see the actual time as a distinct calendar block.
This new option is enabled by default and works retroactively.
Should now feel much easier to reflect on where your time actually was spent each day.
Check out the walkthrough to learn more: https://www.loom.com/share/a1257bd384b146a7ba29432f6263cbd5?sid=b21f75ab-c303-4af8-8c3c-7232468ac765
Maveric
I completely agree with this point of view. Currently, I am manually adjusting the planned time and bypassing the timer altogether because otherwise, it is impossible to have an accurate view of the time spent at the end of the day.
This is my biggest pain at the moment, but I will keep working around it because I love Sunsama :)
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Jozsef
I agree that time spent should override time planned, especially when the timer runs longer than the planned time.
There's no indication when the timer exceeds the planned time in Sunsama currently and the planned time often does not reflect how I spent my time.