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how to add document to activity
I am trying to add a document to an activity so that slife knows that any work on document x should be recorded for activity A. I have tried drag and drop like applications, and I have tried using the "+" in the activity page, but all that gives me is a blank line and a check box. I can type the name of the file but it kind of defeats the purpose as there could be typos etc; maybe its simple and I've missed it but any assistance would help - thanks
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Inappropriate?Within the activity edit window, you do have to type the name (or part of the name) of the document/web page you would like to associate with the activity.
I think adding drag & drop here makes a lot of sense. We are adding this to the to-do list! -
Inappropriate?For documents, does that includes the full address of the document? There could be more than one document with the same name but in different folders.
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?That is correct. Right now Slife doesn't differentiate between document names that are stored in different locations. So if you want to track a document, you have to set up the activity with the name that you see as the document window's title.
We are working on implementing a solution that takes into account the location of the files:
http://getsatisfaction.com/slifelabs/...
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Further to this matter, is it, or will it be, possible to add a folder to the Activity window, so that all documents residing in that folder would count toward that activity?
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This is a great question - It has been asked a lot and tons of people are interested in this functionality. Check it out:
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Inappropriate?I'd like to see the ability to assign a document from the Web & Documents pane to an activity. I just want to look through the documents I've been using and add them to an activity and have that activity update using the information. -
Inappropriate?This is definitely coming Tom. Stay tuned!
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Inappropriate?Like the other guys said...
1. Drag and drop would be awesome -- I also expected this since sLife has that functionality for adding applications.
2. Adding entire folders would be fantastic! I have a folder for each of my academic courses, so that would be really great to log time spent working on things for each course.
3. Assigning (drag and drop here too?) things from the Web & Documents pane would be a good way to do this as well.
I’m someone who doesn't like to wait.
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I agree!
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Inappropriate?I have a similar issue:
I like to track the time I spent a day writing or reading email related to work. Therefore, I've set up tasks.
I have a separate folder in my email client and therefore the title in the email client switches to "Thunderbird - work" or something like that. So, in slife I've set up a task with the word "work"
Now, I also track my regular email usage and have a task called "Thunderbird". The problem is that now my time writing emails for work is counting as task "work" AND as task "email".
It should only be counting work in that case though.
I'm using another open source program "TimeTracker" that only counts one task at the time. How can you be working on two tasks at the same time anyway? It would make it a new task...
I’m confused
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I see what you are trying to do. There are times when you might want to log to multiple activities though. In your example, you are in fact "writing email" and "writing email for work". It seems like you woud like to distinguish the two activities even more.
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I don't understand why my problem is so difficult to solve. Just add a checkbox asking whether this task is an individual task or part of multiple task. Check out the program I mentioned, it does it just fine, but doesn't have the graphs.
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Inappropriate?Following ethomaz's comment, it would be really cool to have the ability to group activiites -- particularly to associate one activity with more than one group. For example, "writing email for work" might fall into the groups "writing email" and "work" -- in fact "writing email" might ideally be part of a larger group "email" that also includes "reading email."
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Inappropriate?I think there are multiple ways to make this happen. One is to include the individual/multiple task checkbox that tom32 mentions. Another is to match window titles exactly.
In the latter case, "Thunderbird" would be "mail" and "Thunderbird-work" would be "work", and there wouldn't be any overlap. Right now Slife compares Window title substrings - a simple switch to turn that off would be enough as well. Hey, it could even be a preferences setting. What do you think? -
Inappropriate?The program I mentioned, TimeTracker, also comapres Window substrings only and there is no checkbox either. It does it by simply allowing only one task to be active at the time. And the further up the list a task is, the higher priority it gets. So, if task 2 in the list matches any of the substrings, it will run the task and won't check any other tasks.
It works like a charm, because all you have to do is, out the very specific tasks at the top and the more general tasks at the bottom.
So, I have the substring "work" somewhere at the top and the substring "thinderbird" somewhere at the bottom.
Simple solution and hassle free. -
Inappropriate?Interesting. Thanks for sharing this, it looks like we could do the same thing without too much effort as well.
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