Activity Status and Lifecycle

This document explains the concepts of activity status and lifecycle in pace.

Activity Status

An activity may have a status, such as active, held, finished, et cetera.

An activity may have the following statuses:

• active
• ended
• inactive
• held

Note: In the future there may also be archived, unarchived and deleted statuses. But for now, these are not implemented.

Activity Lifecycle

When an activity is created, it is in the inactive state. As we are always calling a wrapper function to begin an activity, the activity is automatically set to active when it is created.

When you start working on the activity, the status remains active. When you stop working on the activity with end or begin another activity the status changes to ended.

When you pause the activity with hold, the status changes to held. When you resume the activity with resume, the status changes back to active.

NOTE: There can be only one active activity at a time. If you start a new activity, the previous one and all other active activities are automatically concluded. This makes sure that there is no overlap between activities, as there is no way to work on two activities at the same time.

One could say: “But multi-tasking!” - But that’s not how pace works. Pace is about focus and concentration. If you want to track multi-tasking, you can create a new activity for each task and switch between them with resume. In the future, we might add a feature to track multi-tasking more explicitly, e.g. by being able to assign multiple tasks to an activity, and switch between these tasks or something similar to that.