+1

I would LOVE the idea of displaying the time required for each task in addition to the due date.

I'm also struggling to avoid overcommitting and being able to see due dates and time estimates will help tremendously.

Also, it would be great if somewhere, as I select multiple tasks, there could be a display of the TOTAL estimated time.

This way, I could quickly determine whether it's realistic or not for me to get a certain set of tasks done in a day, half day, a couple hours, etc.

Thanks!

+1
I was also looking for this option!
I hope this will be added!

Also voting for showing the time estimate next to the task within each list (not in the task details) and for showing this in the Overview

+1 from me too. I'm planning to use RTM for my time management system described in Thomas A. Limoncellis "Time Management for System Administrators" book, and (quite near) essential for me to have task estimate in the list.

+1

It would be especially useful for when I print/view my Weekly Planner

Is there a way to do this, even via a style hack? =)

Is there a way to do this, even via a style hack? =)

Any kind of visual indicator would be useful...

Adding my vote to this feature.

+1, that is a must-have

A big +1! I have also considered exporting to I can see the estimated time and the total for a list of tasks or subtasks, but I haven't found anything so far :(

Yes!!!

+1, this is a must-have, really useful data

+1

Looks like this feature request is so old that there is no hope that it will be implemented at all. ((
From my point of view it is the most signficant lack of functionality in the task list.
It makes the "estimation" field useless.
I wish I could group my tasks per their length but nope.
What a pity.

+1, would be great if this is ever done.

@yuriy.daybov: you can group by estimate or anything else in advanced sort (gear icon in the top right corner of a list)

+1

This is an important addon, I'd like to see. I'm using the Total Estimate per day to check whether I need to defer tasks into the next day.
At the moment, this is a hassle as I need to go through every single task to see their estimates.

I'd like to know from the daily overview which tasks take how much time , so I can make a decision on which one to defer to another day.

Yes please.

+1

+1 guys there's real value in showing the estimate to the task view, and it's plain easy code-wise. Also calculating total time for subtasks or for all selected tasks is an essential feature.

If showing the estimate itself would be too "busy" interface-wise, then even having a way to show that there is an estimate documented at all would be helpful. I often use the "today" and "this week" view to get an estimate of total task time needed for the day/week to help with scheduling, and this breaks if I have tasks that don't have an estimate documented. I have to make a separate smart search in order to catch tasks without estimates which adds another step to the process.

Is anyone listening here? Looks like the thread is 11 years old.

Anyone there? Yooohooo.... Any body?

+1

Absolutely needed, specially to reorganize your work. If you have x hours available on a day you need to move tasks between days depending on that available time. Besides, in the week week view you need to see the total estimate of each day to move your tasks between the days of the week.

@RTM, is there a reasoning in RTM-philosophy to not display estimate (or 'estimated') in lists?

This is greatly needed to quickly see which tasks have not been estimated without using SmartList

+1

+1 - You can see per List only on the Web view.

A higher level task should show the sum of all subtasks if it doesn't have it's own estimate defined separately.

They have the data, we just can't see it where we need to.

+1 - must have.

Should be easy to implement. What is the reason this feature has not yet been added?

Sad to see this RTM team is not even bothered to reply to this thread where people are posting for past 12 years

+1 very important to me

Absolutely; is critical for planning each day

+1 I really like that you can see the time for all tasks in a list (e.g. tasks for today)

+1 I am using RTM for years now, missing this kind of feature (estimated time next to each task in a list, not only the sum of all tasks) from the beginning.
Makes daily/weekly planning very cumbersome w.r.t. avoiding over-committment. Blocking an quick and easy re-organization in order to find the right level of time booked for tasks per day.
As others said alreay: Should be easy to implement. So what is the reason this feature has not yet been added?
Any response from the RTM developer team to this > 10 years lasting thread would be very appreciated.

It's very good option. It must be in RTM!

New user, why is this not in yet!?!

As a workaround I put the time in brackets e.g. Task (30m)
But would be much nicer if that was automatically displayed

Dear RTM-team,
How come RTM you responded to this in 13 years? Is there a fundamental reason not to show time estimates? I can enter a time estimate, even rather prominently, below due date, but that doesn't make any sense if I cannot see it anywhere else. What are your thoughts on this?

I found a way to group by estimated time (but not to display the time; didn't try it out to see how it would look).

In the task list settings you can "Sort by advanced". There you can sort or group by most (maybe all) fields, including estimate.

+1
This would be very helpful, much more helpful than the Grouping by Estimation that RTM provides.

Would be a great feature, as can be seen in this topic for many many people.
Dear RTM team, please consider implementation (can't be too hard...).

Or at least show the summed up estimated time of selected tasks...

Ok, might be trickier than expected due to repeating tasks, which do, in fact, not exist until the next task of the repeating series is completed...

+1 for this feature, and a note of disappointment that it's been such a long-standing feature request with no input from the developers.

A very hacky workaround (apologies if someone already mentioned it) is to use tags for 30min, 60min, etc, since they display in Today view. But then you don't get the estimates, and I see no reason to enter this info twice. I've removed the Estimate field since I cannot tell at a glance in the Today view whether I've booked myself for 4 hours or 13 hours of commitments.

unfortunately the "estimate" field cannot be used to its maximum potential.

I've been waiting for these improvements for a couple of years...

+1 for this feature.

Does anyone from RTM actually read these feature request? After 15 years, from a users' point of view, one would expect that a minor feature like this would have been implemented, or at very least that someone from the company would respons and let us know the status.

This really should be a feature/option. It's amazing it's not already there. It would be easy enough to just display it next to the task.

Also... it would be nice if a task could show you the total estimated time of its subtasks. I do like having the ability to give a parent task its own time estimate independent of the child tasks, but I really wish it would show me the total time of those child tasks.

This would be an extremely helpful feature.