Working with tasks area

The current tasks area displays the total amounts of time and rate a user is working with during the day.

Tasks can be of different type: History, Mapped and Manual, which is reflected in the tasks area interface – the column Type. Manual tasks (marked by the black color) are the ones that you start, using the Time Sled interface. Mapped tasks (marked by the dark blue color) are those started automatically by the system in accordance with your task map settings. Manual tasks of your last Time Sled session are considered History (marked by the grey color) at your Time Sled start. In other words, at the Time Sled startup manual tasks of your last session are displayed in the Tasks area marked as History. And all you have to do is click on a task to start it again in your new session. At that, the type of the task will change from History to Manual. If, in your last Time Sled session you have only worked with Mapped tasks, then the tasks area will be empty at the new application startup.

One can execute actions on the current tasks by using the Tools pane that is located above the current tasks area, or by using the context menu.

Start new. Starting a new task. You will be asked to choose the project for a given task or enter a new project name and a new task name.

Then you can click on either the Enter or the OK button.

Pause task. Putting the task into the Pause mode. By clicking on the button, TIM will stop the timer for the current task and start a new count. At that, no additional dialogue window is displayed. Once you decide to return to working on the stopped task, click on the Pause task button again.

TIM will ask you to enter the Project and Task in order to count the time that has been spent on the pause.

You will be able to perform the following actions in the dialogue window:

Skip this time. The time of the pause will not be counted by TIM, the stopped task will continue after the button has been clicked on.

Cancel pause. The time of the pause will be counted as the time spent on the stopped task.

Create task. The time of the pause will be counted for the task indicated by you.

Stop task. Stop the task execution. If you have finished the task execution or need to take a break, then stop the task execution. Later, if you decide to return to this task, just double left-click on it in the current tasks area.

Insert task. Make an entry on the task execution. If you have not had a chance to start the task, or have forgotten to do it, you may create an entry about it post factum.

In the displayed dialogue window select the project, task name and time. Click on OK.

Plan Time. Installing the plan time for the task execution.

You can set a time period, after which the Time Sled will remind you that the time planned for the given task is over. The planned time installation is not saved and it is taken into account only within the session of the program's running.

The Reminder dialogue will offer you to perform a number of actions, or close the window.

Possible actions:

Snooze 10 minutes. Repeat the Reminder in 10 minutes.

Change planned time. Install a new time frame for the task execution.

Stop task. Stop the current task.

You can also Copy the information on the selected task via the context menu.