From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Spiers Subject: Re: Re: Estimated times Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:51:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20071029155110.GB23492@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> References: Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ImXNY-0006xw-0B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:22:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ImXNW-0006wN-QQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:22:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImXNW-0006wI-L2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:22:14 -0400 Received: from mail.beimborn.com ([70.84.38.100]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImWtX-0004w9-OX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:51:16 -0400 Received: from mail.beimborn.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l9TFpDGC000763 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:51:13 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l9TFpDtY000756 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:51:13 GMT Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:08AM +0000, Christian Egli wrote: > Sebastjan Trepca gmail.com> writes: > > I was wondering if there is a way to set a time estimate for a task > > and then match it with actual logged time? After you finish it of > > course. > > > > Maybe something similar as checkbox counters. > > > > * TODO learn about emacs [0/2, 0h/20h] > > - [ ] read emacs manual (10h) > > - [ ] read elisp manual (10h) > > > > First counter counts the finished subtasks, second shows overall > > logged time and the estimate. > > You might be able to do something with a column view. You define the effort as a > property and in your Column View you summarize the effort. Might be worth to > have a look at http://orgmode.org/org.html#Column-view I use tags for this at the moment: #+TAGS: { sub10(1) sub30(3) sub60(6) sub120(2) sub4(4) subday(d) } :sub10: - estimate 10 minutes or less :sub30: - estimate 30 minutes or less :sub60: - estimate 60 minutes or less :sub120: - estimate 120 minutes or less :sub4: - estimate 4 hours or less :subday: - estimate one day or less Advantages: - can set very quickly via C-c C-c 1 etc. - prevents me from trying to be too accurate with my estimates (IMHO anything more fine-grained is probably unrealistic) - can be seen from .org file buffer Disadvantages: - can't add up total time estimated for multiple TODOs - can't display in a column Properties are probably ultimately a cleaner solution. I presume you could easily bind shortcuts to `org-entry-put' but I haven't tried it or thought what the best shortcut keymap prefix would be instead of C-c C-c (this would have the added advantage of freeing up shortcut keys for tags).