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Is it possible to merge Activities, or export activities out? As I track projects, it'd be nice to export related activities for posterity, and remove them from my main list...

Be able to group activities into clusters. For example, a home cluster, a work cluster, etc. Then I can print out my work cluster for only for my work related activities.

The way it seems to work now is that all of my activities are lumped together with no real way to separate them.

The Expanded Day Details is a great report (but needs Time spent added). However I can't do any creative reporting because you have the date on a separate row to the data.

Could you make another version of the Expanded Day Details export spreadsheet where each activity has the date on the same row as the other info? I need this because I want to sort by Activity and then date within the activity. Also can you include the Time spent in the row

I have an idea for the summary line at the bottom of the main bubbling page. I brought up the idea in another thread (here), but it really should be its own idea...

...especially since I've added more to it. Let me show you first, then explain:


So, there's really three new ideas shown here:

(1) The first idea was that it would be helpful to see both the number of hours of activity, and the number of hours that have actually passed.
(2) And then I thought, well, why not also include little tick-marks in each column, showing how many bubbles have been filled in for each time slot?
(3) And lastly, I realized that notes are coming soon, and they might be in this space, so I added some asterisks as well, which could be used to indicate notes (with note content viewable by hovering over with the cursor, as shown).
(4) Idea not shown in the diagram above: maybe for time slots without a note, the symbol could be a little + instead of an asterisk!

The notes would likely be explaining why there may be no bubbles ticked in a column, or why there may be more than one bubble ticked in a column. At a glance, you can see whether either of those situations exist, because of the tick marks (or lack thereof).

Lastly, if it is less confusing to do multitasking, it should also be easier: forego pushing Alt. Just let multiple bubbles be permitted to exist in a column. Then bubbling is as easy as: Click a bubble to fill or empty it.. The advanced technique of shift-clicking for a range would be as easy as: shift-click a bubble horizontal from one you just clicked, and whatever that click does to that bubble, do the same for all in between, and no others elsewhere. Information is never lost unless it is actively clicked to be removed!

BONUS BENEFITS:
- Ooops, did I make two bubbles on the same time slot unintentionally? Quick click fix. Good thing I could tell along the bottom edge that this happened!
- That old "acting like shift-clicking and erasing hours of data" bug would never be able to come up again (not that I'm doubting it's fixed!) because shift-clicking a range would just add multitasked activities...

I think I had thought of a few more benefits, but I've forgotten them, and I've babbled enough for now. What do you think?

Here are the mockups for the notes feature I'm currently working on. Please give me your feedback, questions and ideas. It's all appreciated. (click the image to zoom in)



Notice that the granularity is 1 note for the day and 1 note per activity per day. There aren't notes per hour or per bubble or anything like that. You can certainly type in times into the notes as I did in the mockup example text. Is this the right granularity?

Thanks,
Sean

I like the new weekly goals, but I'd like to request a small feature addition related to this ... I'd love to be able to collapse each (or all) of the right 3 columns. Like, say, when you mouseover the column header cell with "Weekly Goal" in it, it shows a little tiny right arrow, and if you click it, it hides (i.e. minimizes) that column down to just a little left arrow in a very narrow space. I can see this working for all 3 columns together, or each one individually. This would leave more room for bubbles, and while that's not a huge deal, I think that's how I'd prefer to look at it most of the time.

When reviewing what I've done on past days, it would be neat to have a way to view more hours at once. What came to mind just now was to propose having an option to "zoom out".

The reason this would work is because when I'm just reviewing, I don't really need the bubbles to be big enough to click easily, I just need to be able to see whether they've been coloured or not.

Plus, if I could see more (or all) of them at once, I wouldn't have to click-click-click-click-click-click-click. (When I go back to review a past day, the view starts me at midnight through 8am because I track everything including sleep. So, in order to see the relevant hours of the day including the evening if I work late, I do indeed have to click at least seven times.)

In fact, if this zoom idea was implemented, there could perhaps be multiple levels of zoom that showed varying amounts of information, including a "zoom in" view that could be useful to people who are visually impaired.

In order to make the accessible "zoomed in" view and the review-mode "zoomed out" view work most efficiently, BubbleTimer would have to reload new days at the same zoom level as the previous view had.

Is it possible to add a small number of 'everyday goals'? Things like: "Have calendar planned by 9 am", "exercise today", "In bed by 10pm", 'up by 6:30', etc.

Initially they could be the same each day. Later maybe separate them into weekday/weekend. Or maybe have them repeat for particular days of week. Nothing elaborate -- I have other task management processes for those.

The idea is that simple, 'standards for daily action' can make other goals easier to attain. I don't want detailed task management, just the ability to list 3-4 simple things that if I do them the rest of my day goes easier. I do this anyway and it would be nice to 'check them off' if I have them done.

It would be great to see what percentage of days I do them, or see how my other time management is impacted on days I meet those goals (versus days I don't meet them).

This is a 'take care of the little things and the big things take care of themselves' sort of thing...

Right now, the ones I work with are:

1. Up by 6:30 am
2. Have planner for day filled out by 9 am.
3. In bed by 10.

If I do these things, the rest of my day is much better.

Add a window flash for computers with no speakers or those who prefer another signal

Add a simple notes section at the bottom of each day.