Time slots ; visualized blocks of time to schedule/timebox multiple tasks into
Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Yeah definitely. So, one of the challenges I've faced when there is more demand for my time than supply, is ensuring I have enough time during the day to complete my tasks.
I think you guys are on to something with forcing users to go through their planning ritual and place their tasks on the calendar which should fix the above, however, sometimes you get busy and don't do the planning ritual, or maybe you're not really sure exactly what you need to do, but maybe you know you need x hours a day to do "deep work" or just to get things done.
In that case, if you think about a nine hour day (or however long the user wants to set it to), you optionally could set a meetings threshold - ie block the free time of your calendar off to hold your work time after x % is scheduled events. So for example, if I want 3 hours a day of deep work time, after 5-6 hours of meetings are scheduled, the rest of my calendar gets blocked off so I retain that time.
This is a bit of an over-simplication, but I think you get the idea. Clockwise does a bit of this, but I don't think they completely have perfected it yet.
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Time Slots to group related tasks
Angelica Castro
Hello, first I wanna say the app is awesome -- just been having problems with rescheduling tasks over and over again when I go over the planned time.
Would be useful to group related tasks in a slot (Akiflow style) to only have to reschedule one time block when that happens.
I'm probably shit at explaining, but this is the feature: https://how-to-use-guide.akiflow.com/time-slots
Sculley, Jennifer
This would be very helpful. It relates to a comment I left on the "Drag tasks onto tasks to merge into subtasks" feature request. For my workflow, the drag-and-drop feature would be a way of setting aside time that is already spoken for, but isn't a meeting or specific series of tasks yet.
Tobias Cloppenburg-Baumann
Hi Ashutosh & Team,
I use reclaim now as well to schedule meetings, but most importantly to pre-block time for Focus Time, E-Mail and Messaging.
What I'd be looking for is a way to tell Sunsama "you can book tasks over calender entries that have a name of .e.g. focus time, or "no Meeting" or "deep work". So that I can just get into task scheduling, without having to remove my calendar block.
Keep up the good work.
Skyler Reeves
Tobias Cloppenburg-Baumann: Same. I have a 6 hour block from 0600-1200 named “Maker Time” so no one can book calls on my calendar and leave 1300-1700 open for “Manager Time.”
I then use two contexts in Sunsama: #make and #manage. I’d love if Sunsama could recognize and plan my #make tasks onto my Maker block and vice versa.
Rebecca C
Skyler Reeves I’m pretty sure Skedpal can do this (but of course it’s not as pretty as Sunsama)
Skyler Reeves
Rebecca C - Yeah, it does. I used to use it, but it doesn't integrate with my quick capture tool (Todoist).
Skyler Reeves
I'd like to see this too. Akiflow recently added this feature as well.
Skyler Reeves
One year update. Still looking forward to this one day! Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Erica R
Yes! Allow for blocks of time where tasks could be added as well. Amazing Marvin does this very well by adding a "time block" type of task or calendar event. It shows up on a different google calendar, but it allows you to allocate tasks to the block. The block isn't a check-off task, just those tasks are.
Alex Cunningham
Rebecca C
I was going to post something similar but thought I'd search first to see if anyone had suggested it. I would LOVE to be able to schedule blocks of time for particular channels, eg. 2 hours for Project A, 1 hour for Project B etc. Even better would be if Sunsama could stick the next available task(s) for that channel into that slot for me. This would be an absolute gamechanger
Sasha L
Rebecca C: THIS right here is the thing I want! I've tried Sunsama, Marvin, SkedPal, Motion, Llama Life, etc etc etc. Marvin is the only one that does this, but sadly it has too many dealbreakers to be worth it. I hope Sunsama or Motion add something like this.
Even just a way to distinguish between "thinky deep work blocks" and "tick off chores blocks" would be a game changer for making the cognitive overhead of planning easier.
Dan Millen
On mobile please!
Alex Cunningham
Sam Lee
You can currently tell your daily calendar import from Gmail to only import meetings with more than just you on the invite list as tasks. I use this to plan deep work without creating extra tasks that represent my deep work calendar events that throw off my estimated work amount for the day
Sam Lee
@SUNSAMA, it's really had to see that tiny checkbox on the daily calendar import by the way
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