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From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is your journaling setup? (was Re: Awesome! Date-tree from agenda!
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:15:06 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58BEB851-F1BB-4A91-BC1B-2AF770D8C463@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m262vk3r03.fsf_-_@verilab.com>


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Hi Tommy,

I don't know if you've seen this, but I think Bernt Hansen's setup  
will answer most of your questions:

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

I found his web site to be extremely useful.  AFAICT his setup state- 
of-the-art when it comes to keeping track of time in Org-mode.

Tom

On Nov 26, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Tommy Kelly wrote:

>
> In response to Carsten's mention of a new capture target type, Eric
> wrote:
>> Excellent!  This is perfect.  I keep a journal but ...
>
> I'd be really interested in seeing how people use org-mode for
> journaling. By journaling I'm thinking of the various ways of  
> capturing
> activity throught the day and then being able to say at some later
> point, "What exactly did I spend my time on?" I guess the more  
> important
> part is deciding exactly how to slice and dice previously captured  
> data
> so as to give a historical report with the right level of detail. But
> obviously that is affected by how the data is captured in the first
> place.
>
> I'm new to org-mode so I currently have a very simple capture setup. I
> have two types of capturing -- one a TODO and one just a note. And  
> then
> I have two broad classes -- personal and work. So four templates in
> all. I also have it prompt me for a note if a pause on a task or
> complete it.
>
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") 'org-capture)
> (setq org-capture-templates
>      '(	
> 	("t" "Todo" entry
> 	 (file+headline "~/org/journal.org" "Journal")
> 	 "\n\n** TODO %?\nSCHEDULED: %t\n%i%a\n\n\n"
> 	 :empty-lines 1)
>
> 	("n" "Note" entry
> 	 (file+headline "~/org/journal.org" "Journal")
> 	 "\n\n** %?\n%U\n%i%a\n\n\n"
> 	 :empty-lines 1)
>
> 	("p" "Personal Templates")
> 	("pt" "Personal Todo" entry
> 	 (file+headline "~/org/personal.org" "Personal Journal")
> 	 "\n\n** TODO %?\nSCHEDULED: %t\n%i%a\n\n\n"
> 	 :empty-lines 1)
>
> 	("pn" "Personal Note" entry
> 	 (file+headline "~/org/personal.org" "Personal Journal")
> 	 "\n\n** %?\n%U\n%i%a\n\n\n"
> 	 :empty-lines 1)
> 	)
>      )
>
> ;; Log notes and time at various points in a task's life
> (setq org-log-done 'note) ;; When we complete it
> (setq org-log-note-clock-out t) ;; When we clock out
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> All TODOs are captured SCHEDULED for today, but I reschedule them
> everytime I need to look at the agenda, so I keep today clean. I know
> there are better ways, but I'm adding to my org-mode setup slowly,  
> so as
> not to be overwhelmed by new things.
>
> But as I say, I'm new to this so I know there's a lot more can be done
> than just the above. Also, I haven't yet figure out the best way to
> create reports from the above, other than just turning on log mode and
> showing inactive timestamped items in the agenda. I'd really  
> appreciate
> seeing what others have come up with.
>
> So, anyone care to share their journaling approach?
>
> Tommy
>
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-24 23:11 Awesome! Date-tree from agenda! Nathan Neff
2010-11-25  8:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-25 21:32   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-11-26  7:06     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-26 17:59       ` What is your journaling setup? (was " Tommy Kelly
2010-11-26 18:15         ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-11-26  3:08   ` Charles Cave

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