Updating a Task

Now that you have created a task and an appointment, what next?

Here are some next steps that you can take with your tasks.

Spending time on the task

Lets imagine that you wanted to start the downloading your camera task. JXCirrus Diary has a concept called "sessions", where you tell the system when you are starting work on a task. It then records the time that you spend on the task (finishing when you close the task).

To start recording:

The item view will now change and show your task with "Active" in front of it. This means that it is recording time for that task. It will keep on recording time until you finish the task, or you stop recording (use Entry then Stop Session).

You don't have to start sessions for tasks. Sessions are mainly useful if you use JXCirrus Diary at work, and you need to fill in timesheets, or you are running a project and you want to know if you are sticking to the budget. Sessions are covered in more detail in Sessions.

Finishing the task

If you want to tell the system that you have finished the task:

  1. Select the task in the list.
  2. Press the Task Complete button.
  3. The task is now marked as complete. JXCirrus Diary will no longer make up any plans for it.

The symbol for the task should now change to Complete, which means that the task is complete.

Closing the appointment

You can mark appointments as complete too. The main reason to do this is to tell the system "Yes, I know about this, and have gone to this appointment." This is the same as closing off tasks:

  1. Select the appointment in the list.
  2. Press the Task Complete button.

The appointment symbol will change to Complete, which means that the appointment is finished.

Give it a try...

It is probably worth giving the system a full-on try now. You can always refer to this manual from the Help menu or by pressing Help from wherever you are.

A couple of useful links to help you in the manual:

The Complete Manual