[Everhour] Support starting and stopping timer with free text

[RobertCraigie]

Extension

https://www.raycast.com/farisaziz12/everhour

Description

It looks like you can currently only start a timer for existing tasks, I'd love to be able to just start a timer with any arbitrary text.

Who will benefit from this feature?

No response

Anything else?

This is currently supported in the Everhour chrome extension:

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[xmok]

The way the extension is currently structured, it's pretty task-dependent but I 100% get the logic behind being able to start a timer with arbitrary text. The issue is though you may be able to start/stop timers without tasks, they will not show up in the extension as it filters out timers w/o tasks.

So there are 2 separate matters:

1. start/stop current timer w/o task (optionally start with a comment)
2. view timers w/o tasks assigned

What we could do for now is create a new command Current Timer - this would be a no-view command and we could use that to start/stop CURRENT timers. This would solve matter 1️⃣ and we can later on modify the other commands to show timers w/o tasks or something which might be a little more work.

Does that sound like a good approach for now @RobertCraigie?

i.e. to clarify: for now I propose adding a new Current Timer command that will simply start/stop and show the current timer which is always ONE according to the API. EDIT: this current timer will not need a task to be started but will optionally take in a comment.

[RobertCraigie]

that sounds good to me thanks!

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