Super-productivity: Improve project finish!

[cknoll]

Your Environment

• Version used: 5.4.2
• Operating System and version: debian 9 (installed via snap)
• Desktop Environment: KDE

Expected Behavior

Having a button to archive or finish a project

Current Behavior

only finding a possibility to "delete" a project, see #442

Considering the nice and fancy animation when clicking "finish day" it seems kind of strange when I finished a whole project to just delete the project. However I do not want to keep old projects in the project list. Am I missing something?

Regardless of this subjectively perceived ui-strangeness: very good product! I am using it for one week now and it already helped me a lot!

[johannesjo]

Hey! Thanks for opening this up. Personally I don't finish projects that often so I haven't really thought about it that much. Do you have any suggestions for how this could be improved? So far I am interpreting your suggestions as:

1. Add nice project finish animation and a project summary page
2. Make it more accessible (maybe by adding an entry to the project context menu?)

[cknoll]

Both suggestions seem very reasonable. I have nothing to add.

[papernoise]

Project archiving would be really great! I think you could just replace the "finish day" button on a project and turn it into a "finish project" or "archive project" one. Personally it wouldn't bother me if the animation was the same as when I finish my day and the project summary is aready there, isn't it? I mean when I go to the worklog or metrics page these are basically project summary pages.
It would also be very useful if the projects in the sidebar would then be moved to a different location. My sidebar is getting crowded right now!

Make it more accessible (maybe by adding an entry to the project context menu?)

That would definitely be useful. Maybe just "archive project" below or above settings?

btw. Super Productivity really made more productive! Great work!

[robaganrab]

"Archive" feels to be like the project will always be there somewhere.
"Finish" or "close" is more towards "the work here is done", and allows the user to stop spending mental effort on it.

[papernoise]

Having spent some time with the application, I think I have some new ideas on the matter.
Actually, archiving/finishing projects might not even be necessary. I think we have been pushed into thinking that apps need to do everything, and then more. Often duplicationg functionality that is already present on the most basic level in the operating system, or in other applications one has.

The way I handle archiving right now is that I simply export the CSV from the project, save it together with other project documents, delete the project from SP and then put everything into a folder on my computer.
This way it's out of my mind, but I can get back to the data if I need it.
The only issue I can see with this approach is that I can't bring back the project into SP if it should – for whatever reason – be done so. But nothing is stopping me from just making a new project for the occasion and then merging the data into the spreadsheet when I close it again.

[johannesjo]

@papernoise thank you very much for the suggestion. Honestly, I am glad for everything that reduces complexity and scope as I am unable to keep up with all the changes I want to make recently.

[johannesjo]

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[halloichbingunnar]

@papernoise this is a nice option to get rid of some clutter in the project list, but i could imagine this would make visualisation and productivity tracking over longer timeframes impossible (#366)...