Task Effort and PC Idle Warning
If a task is having its effort tracked and the PC is idle for a user-configured time period, task coach should pop up a warning to either 1. Continue tracking effort, 2. Stop tracking effort at the timeout time, 3. start tracking a new effort. So if I go to lunch and forget to stop tracking effort for a task, when I return Task Coach has reminded me of that ....
This is part of release 1.3.0.
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Fink commented
This feature request closes http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/330059-effort-idle-time-handling but the 4th bullet in that one has not been met. This is the possibility to transfer idle time to another task.
Is it possible to reopen this one feature request to have a look at this one ?
BR
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AdminJérôme Laheurte (Admin, Task Coach) commented
The time after which the computer is considered idle is configurable. This is not quite what you describe but I think it should be enough. Setting this value to 0 completely disables the feature anyway.
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Rod commented
I like the idea of this feature, but I would like to be ablet o set the "default" time out behavior. I often use an effort to track time working on items that are away from my desk and not on the computer. I would prefer that I be able to assigne the "default behavior" for either to pause tracking or continue tracking. Only having the option of having the idle timer to pause after the timeout would interrupt about half of the tracking I do in a day. Especially if the feature can not be turned on/off by the user.
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AdminJérôme Laheurte (Admin, Task Coach) commented
In the 1.3 branch, yes. Backup your data...
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bentsch commented
I am looking forward to this feature. Is it already implemented in the daily build versions?
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Thurston Stone commented
Grindstone2 has something like this implemented and it works very well. I like TaskCoach a ton better, since you can organize tasks better, but this feature is certainly missed.
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Piotr commented
It should show message:
"Time tracking paused because computer is in idle mode."
"Idle time: [time]"
"Resume", "Stop"There should be option "idle time detection delay" set to 5 minutes by default.
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Leo commented
I would love this option. A simple configurable time-out value would be better than nothing for me, but if you could decide if you should include the idle time when returning that would be awesome.
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Pat commented
A better way would be to continue tracking time with a checkpoint. This way when the user returns to his PC he can choose whether to add the time to the task or drop it if he just forgot to stop it.
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gustavoaborges commented
If so this should be optional. If you have to go to a meeting and you are away from the PC you will have your task tracked wrongly