* org-dblock-write:count
@ 2014-02-09 13:03 Adam Spiers
2014-02-10 9:50 ` org-dblock-write:count Sebastien Vauban
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From: Adam Spiers @ 2014-02-09 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: org-mode mailing list
Hi all,
I just had an awesome conversation with Sacha about more effective
daily/weekly reviewing with org-mode :-) One of the things we talked
about was quantifying the number of tasks (TODO keywords) in any given
state, as a means of becoming more aware of your progress over time.
I have had some success in the past using the "measure what you want
to manage maxim"[1], and wanted to start applying this to my horribly
massive TODO.org file.
Back in 2008, Carsten very generously implemented the
`org-map-entries' API function at my request[2] in order to facilitate
this kind of measurement, and I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I've
only just started to take advantage of it:
(defun org-count-matches (search)
"Count the number of matches from the given tag search in the
current buffer, respecting any scope restriction."
(interactive "sMatch: ")
(length (org-map-entries t search)))
(defun org-dblock-write:count (params)
"Write a table showing the number of occurrences of each of the
specified keywords and tag searches. Example usage:
#+BEGIN:dynamic block
#+BEGIN: count :keywords (\"NEXT\" \"DONE\") :searches (\"@phone\" \"@home\")
| NEXT | 522 |
| DONE | 69 |
| @phone | 77 |
| @home | 182 |
#+END:
"
(let ((keywords (plist-get params :keywords))
(searches (plist-get params :searches))
(format "| %-10s | %3d |\n"))
(insert
(concat
(mapconcat (lambda (keyword)
(format format keyword (org-count-matches
(concat "/" keyword))))
keywords "")
(mapconcat (lambda (search)
(format format search (org-count-matches search)))
searches "")))
(backward-delete-char 1)))
Sacha deserves a lot of credit for reminding me how easy it would be
to do this :-)
I suppose the next step would be to automate appending counts to a CSV
file or transmitting them to some kind of graphing service like
https://tempo-db.com/ (or preferably some free alternative like
quantifiedawesome ;-) via a REST API.
[1] http://blog.adamspiers.org/2011/05/15/email-nirvana/
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2008-06/msg00208.html
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2014-02-09 13:03 org-dblock-write:count Adam Spiers
@ 2014-02-10 9:50 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-02-14 12:42 ` org-dblock-write:count Sebastien Vauban
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From: Sebastien Vauban @ 2014-02-10 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ
Hi Adam,
Adam Spiers wrote:
> I just had an awesome conversation with Sacha about more effective
> daily/weekly reviewing with org-mode :-) One of the things we talked
> about was quantifying the number of tasks (TODO keywords) in any given
> state, as a means of becoming more aware of your progress over time.
> I have had some success in the past using the "measure what you want
> to manage maxim"[1], and wanted to start applying this to my horribly
> massive TODO.org file.
>
> [...]
>
> #+BEGIN:dynamic block
> #+BEGIN: count :keywords (\"NEXT\" \"DONE\") :searches (\"@phone\" \"@home\")
> | NEXT | 522 |
> | DONE | 69 |
> | @phone | 77 |
> | @home | 182 |
> #+END:
>
> [...]
To me, the best thing would be to see that count up-to-date with every
custom agenda view.
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-09/msg01075.html
for a patch I proposed in that direction.
However, I had some comments of Bernt saying that some edge cases are
not covered (when the block separator is empty). I still have to fix
that, and come back with a fully working solution.
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
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* Re: org-dblock-write:count
2014-02-10 9:50 ` org-dblock-write:count Sebastien Vauban
@ 2014-02-14 12:42 ` Sebastien Vauban
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sebastien Vauban @ 2014-02-14 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ
"Sebastien Vauban" wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
>> I just had an awesome conversation with Sacha about more effective
>> daily/weekly reviewing with org-mode :-) One of the things we talked
>> about was quantifying the number of tasks (TODO keywords) in any given
>> state, as a means of becoming more aware of your progress over time.
>> I have had some success in the past using the "measure what you want
>> to manage maxim"[1], and wanted to start applying this to my horribly
>> massive TODO.org file.
>>
>> #+BEGIN:dynamic block
>> #+BEGIN: count :keywords (\"NEXT\" \"DONE\") :searches (\"@phone\" \"@home\")
>> | NEXT | 522 |
>> | DONE | 69 |
>> | @phone | 77 |
>> | @home | 182 |
>> #+END:
>
> To me, the best thing would be to see that count up-to-date with every
> custom agenda view.
>
> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-09/msg01075.html
> for a patch I proposed in that direction.
>
> However, I had some comments of Bernt saying that some edge cases are
> not covered (when the block separator is empty). I still have to fix
> that, and come back with a fully working solution.
An alternative could be `org-effectiveness', and having a hook to
display the count (in the mode line) at each opening of an Org file...
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
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