I was interrupted ... correct effort tracking
When I'm busy on one task and tracking the effort I am spending, I am often interrupted by a call or email and get caught up doing effort for another task.
It would be great at the end of the interruption to be able to quickly record the interruption without having to manually stop/start effort and adjust the effort records.
Something along the lines of: select task that you were diverted to and say 'Actually I spent the last 30 mins working on this task'. This would create a new effort record for this task that lasted from 30 mins ago to the current time. It would also then look at currently recorded task (if one exists) and stop existing effort record 30 mins ago, starting a new one from now.
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Bruce Keplinger commented
This would be huge. Often I need to go back to previous days and insert interruptions, which means I have to add a new effort for the remainder of the time of the first effort after the interruption. It would be great if there was simply a click to insert an interruption, which of course would be another effort which I could assign to the appropriate task. I can probably devise a work-around where I enter an interruption as another (simultaneous) task and in Excel, where I open the exported CSV, I would create a formula to account for the interruption, but it would be fantastic if I could just do this directly in the program.
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red commented
simply 2 functions:
- interrupt effort, wich closes the current effort, puts it on a stack and opens this effort
- resume interrupted, which closes the current effort, take the effort on top of the stack and opens it.The efforts can be nested like my work where i have nested interrupts