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I’m setting my schedule up for the first time in this app.

I’m trying to schedule my meetings to be during my work hours, and I am also trying to schedule a task that must take place halfway exactly during another task. It doesn’t seem to be working as I anticipated.

When I try to add a task to overlap with an existing one (daily view), it disappears to the right of it, and it doesn’t show in the other views (weekly view, split view) that I can see anywhere. It’s hidden or something? Even where I can see it in the daily view, I cannot see the title of the task. I can’t seem to figure out how to have my work meetings at the same time as my work hours. Am I not able to, “multi-task” with this app? This seems like an oversight for such a specific “time blocking” app—I expected it to simply work the way Google Calendar does, with multiple events overlapping each other. I’m hoping this is just a bug! Especially with it not showing at all on the other views.

This app does everything I need so far! I don’t want to keep searching for a time block app :( Thank you for any help or insight!

Posted by Tody ·
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  • Luke M

    Team•

    Feb 3

    Thanks so much for your question here! I really appreciate you trying the app, and I’m glad you’re enjoying it (in general) so far!

    As for the challenges you’re facing, I appreciate your patience. These choices were indeed intentional, but I’m always open to revising things. In short, these constraints make more sense on iPhone/Android, but I can see how they seem nonsensical on Mac, and I’m certainly open to revising things.

    Longer explanation and some background:

    • TimeFinder does a lot of things differently from regular calendars, very intentionally; one of those things is focusing on ‘single-tasking’—having no more than one ‘primary’ task in a given timeslot at a time—which, besides being cleaner and more personal-productivity oriented, is fundamental to the dozens of powerful and intuitive drag & drop and task-shifting interactions that are unique to TimeFinder.

    • For that reason, so-called “secondary” (or “minimized”) tasks are, as you noticed, treated as second-class citizens: intentionally difficult to create intentionally within TimeFinder, tucked off to the side of the screen by default, and notably, only visible in the Schedule tab, and only in Day view.

    • As for why secondary tasks are only visible in Day view, that is simply because on mobile devices (95% of TimeFinder’s user base), horizontal screen real estate is extremely limited—so much so that showing them on Split View would be crammed at best, and showing them on week view would be kind of a joke.

    All in all, I appreciate you reaching out, and I’m happy to improve this in the next release; I can make it so the minimized-task tabs always show when space permits on larger screens. If you’re thinking “why wouldn’t you do just have done that in the first place”—just not enough hours in the day to do everything I have in mind for the app 😂

    Thank you for your patience and feedback!

    -Luke

    • Luke M

      Team•

      Feb 3

      Also, please check out the “Settings > Learn TimeFinder” section, specifically about ‘minimizing tasks’, I think you’ll find it helpful! You can minimize that big yellow task, which should allow you to “know it’s there”, while freeing up your schedule to drag in things (like that red task) without issue.