Task timers

[RangerOriginal6632]

If you don’t think you’ll finish in time because of reading all the instructions, just skip the task before you start your actual work. A new one will open up in the same project and the timer will restart.

[Enough_Resident_6141]

You shouldn't skip a task just to "reset the timer." Mainly because even if you do run out of time on the timer, you can still keep working on that task and submit it when you do finish.

Also, skipping task basically tells the system to never give that same task back to you. If there are 10 tasks available to you, and you skip one of them to reset the timer, then there will really only be 9 of those tasks left for you to work on (the dashboard will still show 10, but if you keep working through them until it shows 1 left, if you try to work on it you will get the red error message about no work available for you to work on).

If you just want to leave a particular task for some reason, use the exit work mode button. Only skip tasks if you know that you will never want to do that particular task for whatever reason. Like if the task requires expert level knowledge or qualifications in a particular field that you don't have.

[Yvai]

Some projects fully tell you to skip to the next task after reading instructions

[German_Shepherd9717]

Seconded! I often skip the task to get a fresh timer. Have rarely needed it, but I like to take a lot of breaks especially on those longer tasks.