Time tracking for recurrent tasks

[AlexMV12]

Hello,

First of all, thank you for this application! This looks sexy, useful, and well-done. Being open-source is admirable.

I have a question - and reading all the discussions I realize that making a planner/to-do application involves A LOT of different work habits :)

Consider the following: I have a project, let's call it "Nuclear fusion development plan".

A task of this project is "Search and read the new publications on the topic".
Now, obviously, this is a recurring task: for instance, every Monday, I want to spend some time reading the freshly released papers on the subject.

My question is: how does time tracking works in this case?
For now, it looks like the task is re-created every Monday, but in a separate instance.
Instead, I would like, maybe 6 months from now, to look at this task and see that I have spent 48 hours doing this particular thing, instead of having 6 * 4 = 24 different tasks, each one with the duration of 2 hours.

A guess is that if they have the same name, the time spent for all the instances of this recurrent task will be put together. Is it right?

Also, I have another small related question: on Monday I have done this task, so it's marked as complete.
However, today (Tuesday) I would like to do more work on this. In this case, what is the "correct" workflow? Should I restore the Monday task, add some time for today and mark it as "complete", or something else?

Thank you very much!

[johannesjo]

Thanks for your question. Tasks won't be magically put together unfortunately. If you have a task you want to track separately over time, I'd recommend assigning the same tag to the tasks instances (you can configure tags to be automatically to repeated tasks). Then you can use the worklog for that tag to check the time spent.

About your other question: That's completely up to you. I personally prefer creating a new instance whenever possible or using sub tasks, so I get the joy of marking a task as done when I worked on it.

[AlexMV12]

Hello,
Thank you for the fast answer!

I guess that your idea of using tags to manage this is the right answer for both my questions.
Indeed, as you say, I can put the tag "read" to my Monday recurrent task "Periodically Search and read the new publications on the topic".

Then, if in the middle of the week I want to give a boost on this aspect, I can make a non-recurrent task "Additional research on new papers" and mark it with the tag "read" as well.

This way I can manage to mark the task as done during time, which - as you say - is a satisfaction. :)