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Auto schedule time blocks

Feature Request

A little different take on how to use auto schedule with tasks and time blocking…

TLDR;

Block out time on your calendar bay tag,so tasks with that tag are auto scheduled in that block.

I think that it would be so helpful if I could set blocks of time on my schedule for certain type of tasks - then when auto-scheduling an option could be to fill that time with those types of tasks first - or maybe only with those types...

A simple example would be if I had 10 tasks for the day, but 3 of them were personal (household chores or something) they would be tagged accordingly. On my calendar I have a block of time that was for work, another for study, personal time, chores. When auto-schedule ran it would put the three tasks that were tagged as 'chores' in the chore time block and not in some other random place on the schedule... 

Personally I have lots of tasks in my other systems (as I'm working on moving over to BD more this year) that are all for various blocks of time... I don't want to be doing service when I'm supposed to be writing a blog post for my business when I auto-schedule my week. Sure, I can drag and rearrange, but doing it automatically would be fantastic... especially if my 'service' time (for example) is on Saturday morning only.

Posted by Jason Egan ·
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  • Gil

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    Mar 22

    I agree, auto scheduling tasks by simply filing in empty spots on a calendar, is only half way to an ideal solution. The ability to set up a schedule “My work week is Monday-Friday, and I start my day 9:00 and end 16:00 hours, but my personal time for personal tasks such as studying for night school or grocery shopping ( neither of which can be “auto scheduled” in the middle of my work day, but are no less important in my life.