Multiple activities at once

[ThomasSteinbach]

Hi, it would be nice to be able to track multiple activities having done at the same time. For example driving by train and reading. I would like to enter them separated by comma or another separator.
Activity groups seems not to suffice, as there are endless combination of activities.

Cool app!

[artnc]

Thanks for the suggestion. There have been times when I wanted this too, but I held off on implementing it to try to keep things as simple as possible.

For example, it's not immediately obvious how to chart such entries - I guess using the entry's first activity and ignoring any others could be simplest.

Comma does have the nice property of requiring only one tap on phone keyboards (or at least mine). My main concern is whether it could possibly appear naturally in an activity name as a non-delimiter, e.g. for someone reading the book "I, Claudius". I think forward slash and pipe would be the other possible candidates, although they're harder to type.

Maybe any support for this feature could be enabled via chart checkbox or JSON config option 🤔

[ThomasSteinbach]

For example, it's not immediately obvious how to chart such entries - I guess using the entry's first activity and ignoring any others could be simplest.

That sounds simple to me: Most charts I remember does simply count the time spent per activity. As such there should be no problem with having multiple activities per time / overlapping activities on the timeline.

For charts where the exact time range is of relevance, like in time series, you could either show the whole activity string (all activities listed) or - as you adviced - just take the first activity as "main" activity.

Comma does have the nice property of requiring only one tap on phone keyboards (or at least mine). My main concern is whether it could possibly appear naturally in an activity name as a non-delimiter, e.g. for someone reading the book "I, Claudius". I think forward slash and pipe would be the other possible candidates, although they're harder to type.

The separator could be configured in the JSON config. Maybe also "line break" could be a relevant separator easy to type on smartphones.

Maybe any support for this feature could be enabled via chart checkbox or JSON config option 🤔

Of course :) Maybe configuring the separator could "activate" multiple activities per time range.

[KotUW]

Comma does have the nice property of requiring only one tap on phone keyboards (or at least mine). My main concern is whether it could possibly appear naturally in an activity name as a non-delimiter, e.g. for someone reading the book "I, Claudius". I think forward slash and pipe would be the other possible candidates, although they're harder to type.

How about anything inside quotes ("). Isn't parsed So you can write any titles with comma inside quotes. 🤔