Improved Schedules UI
Kevin Kirkpatrick
I love the idea of "schedules" per channel/context, but the UI is quite tedious and difficult to user. Further, it's buried fairly deep in the settings, which makes me far less likely to use a fairly helpful feature. I'd love it if there was more of a drag and drop style way to set schedules. I'd also love it if there was a better way to access it via the main UI, either from the calendar panel or a more visible channels editor.
Alex Cunningham
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Improve schedule settings
Corina Aoi
Under "Settings > Workspace > Schedules" - It would be helpful to have the option to check a box that would set the same time ranges for all days of the week at once so that a user wouldn't have to manually change the time for each day when the ranges are the same. A bit tedious. So far, I love the app!
Alex Cunningham
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Set or modify channel schedules in a calendar interface
Jack Mitchell
It would be wonderful to be able to set initially or modify the channel schedules in a calendar interface rather than the current picker boxes. Then if I am off work, I could easily modify my schedule for that day to include personal tasks during the day or if I know I have more of a particular type of work than usual, I could modify that schedule for a specific day. Being able to "schedule" those work times for different channels would make it so much easier.
Alex Cunningham
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Visually surface channel Schedules on Calendar view
Fabio Bracht
I'd like to see a visual representation of my channel schedules on the calendar view.
I included 2 mockups of how this could look like when color-coded to the channels.
Ideally, these would also have a label with the channel name, which I couldn't figure out a way to include in the mockup in a pleasant way.
Alex Cunningham
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Visualise schedules in calendar views
Hanna K
It would be very helpful for visual clarity and easy planning if there was a visualisation of your schedules in the calendar views. For example, if you have your #work schedule set at 9am-5pm, it would be a lot easier for me to plan my day if I could see that on the calendar. Maybe a colored line along the timeline on the side, or a faint dotted line where schedules start and end. (I've attached some quick mockups of suggestions on how it could look like)
For the 9-5 example this might just sound like a "nice to have", but if your schedule is different depending on the day like mine, it would be a huge help. I imagine it'll be even more useful for people who have set up more than one schedule.
Alex Cunningham
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bulk change or copy working hours in schedules to other days
Alex Cunningham
It can be tedious to go through the hours in schedules one by one, especially if you need to change all of them.
It would be great to bulk-create these hours, or copy hours from one day to the others.
Alexander Six
I'm moving from Motion over to Sunsama, and I agree, I'm not loving how tedious and difficult it is to set up schedules in Sunsama.
I actually really appreciate the idea of how Motion handles this, which is by allowing me to schedule reusable blocks of time (work, personal time, etc.) that I can then associate with one or more of my projects (contexts and/or channels, in Sunsama's case). That way, I only have to set up my time blocks once, but I can use them over and over again as I create more projects that need specific time constraints.
As far as a real-world example of this goes, I currently use this to block off 9-5 for work time, 8-10:30 for side-gig time, and the rest of my waking hours for family time, and I've assigned my projects (again, contexts and/or channels) to each of those so that the tasks auto-map into the appropriate time bucket. It makes it incredibly easy to take on another side gig task or add a personal commitment without having to create an entirely different scheduling system for it.
Sara Robinson
I would love to be able to bulk change, or copy paste, or choose the schedule for a channel to be the same as another channel. I would also love to have a default WORK schedule and a default NON-WORK schedule that could be applied to channels depending on whether they are WORK or NON-WORK.
Šimon Demočko
Very true. Clicking this was quite annoying and I hope I won't be changing my mind on what the schedules should look like, so i don't have to go through it again.