SumText ia a Chrome Extension that sums numbers between brakets found in the clipboard (eg. "Buy milk [0.5h], Cook dinner [1h]" returns "1.5").
I use an outliner (eg. Dynalist) to plan my days. Part of this process is to estimate the level of efforts for some multi-step tasks.
For example:
- First draft on topic Z
- research topic Z [1h]
- brainstorm and decide on a storyline [0.5h]
- write first draft [0.7h]
- reach out to 3 advisors and ask for feedback [0.25h]
- send an update to team [0.1h]
Wouldn't it be great to be able to roll up the estimated effort of each sub-tasks up one level? (here "First draft on topic Z").
This is where this extension helps.
Copy the sub-tasks, right-click to show to context menu, click on "Sum numbers from clipboard" -> the extension will compute the sum of estimates and show 2.55 (ie. number of hours for all those steps).