Global hotkey to start new task
Justin Schumacher
via web
Hi there--
I use On the Job to keep track of my work at a pretty fine-grained level-- for each ticket my clients have for me, I create a separate entry in On the Job. This means that sometimes I'm creating new tasks in On the Job every 5-10 minutes. I would love to see a global hotkey for quickly switching to a new task -- I hate using the mouse when I don't have to! Something that would let me press a global hotkey, enter a description for the new task, and then I would be off and rolling with the timer running ... that would be awesome!
Keep up the good work!
Support Staff 2 Posted by Dan Messing on 19 Dec, 2009 09:44 PM
I agree, sounds like a good idea to me, and I've added it as a feature request. Thanks for the feedback!
3 Posted by Justin Schumacher on 01 Feb, 2010 04:05 PM
Hey-- just want to add one additional thought to this feature. One thing I find happening constantly is that while I'm working on a task someone will come over to my cube and st art talking about some other issue and before I know it I've spent 15 minutes not doing the task that On the Job is recording time for. In this case, I would love to be able to hit that hotkey to create a new task, but to make the new task start retroactively.
It would be awesome if I could say "create a new task called X that I started doing Y minutes ago". It would then start the timer rolling with Y minutes already on the clock, and if any other tasks had time logged within Y minutes ago, then time would be subtracted from those tasks to correct them.
Support Staff 4 Posted by Dan Messing on 03 Feb, 2010 06:34 PM
Interesting thought - I can see how that would come up in real-world use.