Have actual start and end times for Tasks and draw time line on the calendar

Hey everyone,
Every year I keep asking for the same thing - this has been going on for three years - is this impossible programatically? I don't think so. Come on Intervals - this would be a huge improvement to the program.

Happy New Year! One thing that I really wish could be added, especially in light of the new calendar and Milestones would be for each task scheduled for the future to be added to the calendar automatically in various color coded options - very similar to the Google calendar - also as a new task timer is started it automatically added the start time to the calendar and draws a color coded line for the time span when the timer is stopped.
Basically I want each aspect of Intervals not just to record the AMOUNT of time but the ACTUAL time span on the calendar that the task was performed in. The actual start and end time for each task should not be a big deal to add as I'm sure the data is already somewhere in the program.
Hope this is something you can do very soon!
Thanks. Craig.

It seems that we can view both the start and end time of tasks (if we turn on that function). However, I would love to see it color-coded by project as well, similar to Google Calendar. We are currently using both calendars to keep track of our projects. Is this something that you are all working on?

Thank you!

This discussion has bounced around a few different topics but when the calendar was first developed a few years back we tinkered with drawing lines for when a task starts and when it ends but unfortunately when there were a lot of tasks the home page became virtually impossible to read. The closest current functionality is showing the task start date. On the right hand side of the page if you click on "show more options" there is an option to show when tasks start. A filter can be saved to show when tasks start, when they are due, or both depending on your preference. Also on the task listing if you click on "show widescreen view" additional columns of information will appear including the task start date. If you click on that column the listing will reorient based on the start date. We do have plans to add tasks and milestones to the periscope report in the future. When complete that will be the closest visual representation to a Gantt chart within Intervals. It is not the same exact functionality as drawing it over the calendar but it is similar in intent.

Regarding timers and recording the start and end time, we are strongly considering changing the core timer functionality to record start, pause, and apply times. If this change is made Intervals will be opened up to a lot of different time displays and daily accounting for activities. There is definitely a strong possibility that this will happen in the future. We are also considering a daily view to view tasks and notes but do not plan to have a full calendar experience like Outlook or Google Calendar and plan to keep the focus on task tracking, simplicity and workflow. We do plan to investigate greater integration between Intervals and third party calendar programs and some customers have started custom development on this front via the API.

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