Sub-activities

Hello there! I'd like to ask what the dev team thinks about sub-activities.

Example: I have a main activity called "Study for DCS100" that I'd like to spend 2 hours on every day. The three main sub-activities would be "Revise previous material", "Preview future material" and "Complete current exercises".

I could spend 2 hours on completing a hard piece of homework, or I could spend 1 hour on revising previous material and then another hour on previewing next week's lecture notes.

It doesn't really matter how much time I spend on each sub-activity, as long as the total time spent on the sub-activities sums up to 2 hours every day.

That way, I can track if I have been spending too much time on the homework for this module and allocate more time towards the main activity of "Study for DCS100" to make sure that I have time to revise and preview material.

Thanks for taking the time to read this message, and thanks for making BubbleTimer, it is a very nice app that I am currently integrating into my workflow. :)

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Sean Johnson, Official Rep, replied on November 29, 2008 16:19

Kerris,

I'm really glad you're finding BubbleTimer fits into your workflow. I hope it's helping.

I marked this as "we'll think about it"... but I'm already thinking through categories which many people have requested and I think your sub-activity idea fits neatly into that. I'll make sure I review your message once I have the mockup ready to make sure it fits. If it doesn't I might come back to ask you some questions here.

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Jeff E replied on January 16, 2009 14:59

I think the sub-activities idea would be fantastic. I run a small press company and one of the things I would love to be able to do is, when I am managing a project, to be able to break it down into parts but when not actively using it "collapse" it into a single-line entry that summarizes the time on all the parts.

Regardless, I have to say this is an amazing piece of work as-is. Simple, elegant, and easy to use. I've only been working with it for 5 days now and I am already finding it invaluable. Will definitely be paying the all-too-little $20... Do you have a donation box?

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Sean Johnson, (Official Rep), commented on January 19, 2009 03:19

Jeff,

I can arrange for some "special" pricing for you. :-)

I can't say how great it is to hear your compliments. I've put in more time, effort and money into BubbleTimer than I'll ever get back from it. It's a true labor of love and reading comments like yours makes it all worthwhile.

You'll be happy to know that pretty much exactly what you describe there for sub-activities is what Eric is working on right now (we're calling it categories) and you'll have it pretty soon.

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Emily replied on March 02, 2009 20:26

Just realised that my idea could be satisfied by this idea, as I could group multiple activites under Work, and others under Breaks and then I can see when I've hit my work goal.

I’m excited that this might be coming soon!

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Sean Johnson, (Official Rep), commented on March 03, 2009 12:15

I find myself in the exact same situation as you Emily. In need of some quick sub-totals on groups of activities.

Shh.... don't tell anyone, but when I need a feature too, it tends to get done faster.

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Emily commented on March 03, 2009 13:56

Ooh good news! Thanks!
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hverup replied on August 28, 2009 12:12

Defintely a good idea. I am a consultant working on several customers and projects per day, so having a total time spent per customer/project rolling up from sub-activities, would be nice. If sub-activities could be collapsed, it would also give a better overview of the day.

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