# \[Timelime\] Total time for overlapping tasks

**URL:** <https://community.timeframeapp.com/t/timelime-total-time-for-overlapping-tasks/98>\
**Category:** Timelime\
**Created:** [December 11, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://community.timeframeapp.com/t/timelime-total-time-for-overlapping-tasks/98 "2023-12-11T07:56:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![rea191](https://community.timeframeapp.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/47e85d/32.png) [@rea191](https://community.timeframeapp.com/u/rea191)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://community.timeframeapp.com/t/timelime-total-time-for-overlapping-tasks/98/1 "2023-12-11T07:56:31Z")

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I am sometimes working at different tasks at the same time, for example, when writing a document while running a simulation in the background. It seems to me that the total time in the pie and bar representations is just the mere sum of the single times of each tasks: if I run a simulation from 8 to 9 and write the document from 8 to 10, the total time will be set to 3 hours instead to a more reasonable 2 (from 8 to 9 I have worked on two tasks but there is no need to count it as two hours!)… any solution?