[Feature] Resume timer on existing task

[tomek-szczesny]

Hi! I was looking for a similar tool just now and this one is by far the best I could find. I love it! However, I'd love to be able to do breaks in my tasks, and pause the timer for that duration.

I thought that perhaps the easiest way to do it is to let the user resume the timer on a given task. Under the hood, I think one more field in json file, like "break_time" (0 by default) could keep track of seconds that should be subtracted from total elapsed time of a given task. What do you think?

[maxRN]

Hi, a resume timer feature would be highly appreciated! My suggestion on how to implement this would be the following:

[
  {
    "desc": "something else",
    "workTimes": [
      {
        "start": time1,
        "end": time2
      },
      {
        "start": time1,
        "end": time2
      },
      {
        "start": time1,
        "end": time2
      }
    ]
  }
]

I would be down to try and implement this if you think this is a valid approach

[tomek-szczesny]

The approach that I suggested would not break backward compatibility, with only one field added (that may safely default to 0 if not present). Otherwise one would have to implement format conversion as well, so the user files won't become useless after update.

[caarlos0]

feel free to take a swing at it, yes

[maxRN]

The approach that I suggested would not break backward compatibility, with only one field added (that may safely default to 0 if not present).

Otherwise one would have to implement format conversion as well, so the user files won't become useless after update.

Ah, of course you're right I totally missed that!

I'm having a little trouble understanding your proposed solution, though: If I understand correctly: when we resume a task we take the delta between the current time and the end time and add this duration (in seconds) to the breakTime. And when we pause the task again we just update the end time and the new total is now the delta between end and start time, minus the breakTime in seconds?

[tomek-szczesny]

That is exactly what I had in mind. Sounds even better after you explained it back to me. :)

[jugglingjsons]

Resurrecting the thread, if anyone is interested in pursuing it a little further - there's a working version with task restarter here https://github.com/caarlos0/tasktimer/pull/127

[!CAUTION] Will work only on new projects, I haven't tested it with any old ones. As it changed the base structure of entities. Some exporters may not work either, but the report I use works fine.