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Add countdown to next task in widget

An active countdown to appear on Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch complications….this showing how many minutes left till the next task or event.

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  • Lauren

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    Feb 28, 2024

    Came to request this! I have adhd, time blindness makes it hard to gauge how long I have until the next task starts & remember how long. Having that info readily available would be incredibly helpful.

  • Tal D'Ancé

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    Mar 7, 2024

    I would love a count down to the next activity when one isn’t in progress!

  • Kathryn Yort

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    Apr 4, 2025

    Please add feature it’s been almost 2 years!

  • Kyle

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    Dec 7, 2023

    Very good feature. Any idea of how to do this or when it will be implemented?

  • philistine287

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    Mar 19, 2024

    Please add this. Without, the complications on the Watch are almost useless.

  • Caroline Hather

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    Aug 5, 2025

    Please please add this! It would be so helpful for those of us with time blindness / ADHD! Thank you!

  • Sweedal Maria

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    Mar 22

    Would love this feature!

  • Shlomo

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    Jun 28

    In the “Timeline” and “Task …” widgets, it would be very valuable for me to see how much time is remaining until the next task, especially if there is no currently running task.

    I'm neurodivergent, with ADHD and executive dysfunction. Seeing the gaps between my tasks in the Structured app is a godsend for me. No other app / design ever had that effect on me: “3h until the next task? Great! that gives me 2h for gym and 1h for the two chores I've been procrastinating for a week”.

    But for now, I need to open the Structured app to get this boost of time awareness and productivity motivation. The widget just says “1 PM - Drive to …”. For some reason, this has no effect like the above. Of course I can check the clock in the corner, do the math, and conclude that there are 3h remaining, but somehow, even when I do, it doesn't motivate me to fill these 3h with something valuable as much as when I see the gap’s exact hours and minutes, with the “Add task” button right there:

    It would be very valuable to me to get the same effect more often, i.e. when I glance over my widget, not just when I happen to open the Structured app.

  • ReticentEclectic

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    Aug 21

    I would love to see this implemented. I don’t often have every minute of my day filled with a task, and seeing the time between tasks counting down on the un-app timeline is extremely insightful, which no other time management app seems to provide, I’d love to have that same insight glanceable from the timeline widgets.

  • Daniel Marchesani

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    Sep 5, 2023

    I am pretty sure this already exists.

    • sursh

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      Nov 17, 2023

      That looks like a current task that's in progress. I think OP means if there's no task currently in progress, display time to next task start.

    • philistine287

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      Mar 24, 2024

      This is only for the large widget. It should also work for corner widgets.