would be helpful if we can also select specific items in the calendar and total up the total time for the selected tasks.

Strongly agree! I’ve started using my “next actions” list to substitute for this; ie only keep things on it to be done this week or for specific days this week… and hope they add up to not much over 40 hours ;)

Seeing it in calendar view, broken down by week and day would be hugely helpful for forward-scheduling. Presently, i just push things that weren’t done to “next week”. This is because my Next Actions list is full of “this week” stuff, so I don’t have a way to tally future tasks. And when that week comes around I can see what my workload is like, and again put things on next week…

It would be much more efficient if it just added up the time for me, then I would know if next week was full, and I could put tasks forward to the week they belong in. And it would free up my next actions list for what it’s meant to be.