Re: timestamps and work logging

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: timestamps and work logging
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:09:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e5be28f675e4f694864904f7091c988@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31wu2k1dr.fsf@gnu.org>

Interesting functionality and not hard to do - I am putting it on my 
list, but I am not sure how quickly this will happen.

- Carsten

On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:46, David O'Toole wrote:

>
> Hi Carsten. I have another modest proposal for you :-)
>
> I notice that org-mode has a concept of timestamp ranges, and a
> function to calculate the length of time in a given timestamp
> range.
>
> It seems to me that with a small amount of additional work, org-mode
> could:
>
> 1. Provide a function org-clock-in, which lets you signal that you
>    have started working on a particular task. This would start a
>    timestamp range going on that task, so when you clock in on task
>    Foo, you get
>
>    ** TODO Foo
>       WORK: <2006-06-06 Tue 06:33>--<>
>
> 2. Provide a function org-clock-out, which remembers where you last
>    clocked in, and completes the timestamp range:
>
>    ** TODO Foo
>       WORK: <2006-06-06 Tue 06:33>--<2006-06-06 Tue 06:35>
>
> 3. Produce another timestamp range when you clock in again, thus
>    recording all the time intervals when you worked on this task:
>
>    ** TODO Foo
>       WORK: <2006-06-06 Tue 06:33>--<2006-06-06 Tue 06:35>
>       WORK: <2006-06-06 Tue 06:39>--<>
>
> 4. Clock out of task A if you clock in to task B without manually
>    clocking out of task A.
>
> 5. Optionally display work time (i.e. no task completion) when
>    log-mode is on in the Agenda buffer.
>
> 6. When you call org-clock-total in a particular org-file, sum the
>    time intervals for each task in the file and produce a line like
>
>    TOTALWORK: 3:14 (3 hours, 14 minutes)
>
>    (This would make it easy for me to scan the file and produce client
>    bills from the output.)
>
> I originally looked at timeclock.el for this, and wrote a simple org
> interface for it, but I want to keep the time logging information in
> my org-files, next to each task description, and separated for each
> client---not all bundled together in a huge ~/.timelog file.
>
> What do you think? Does it sound like a lot of work?
>
> -- 
> Dave O'Toole
> dto@gnu.org
>
>
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