Re: How to track time spent on a project

From: Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org>
To: Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to track time spent on a project
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:16:46 -0400	[thread overview]
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Take a look at this: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-7I use this
exact setup and it works perfectly

*Greg Newman*

http://20seven.org

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to track the time that I'll spend on a new project. For this
> I'm planning to use org-mode's clocking feature, so far my first tests
> (I've never used org-agenda before) showed me that I can do this
> easily from the agenda view, as long as I have a DATE: property in my
> node. And that's a bit of a problem because I don't really have a
> scheduled date when I'm going to work on a part of this project.
> Is there a way in org-mode to just clock the time and have the agenda
> view show me on the views for every day (or time interval) just the
> clocked times for every tree item that fall into this time
> interval/range?
> And how can I start clocking items that do not show up in the agenda
> view? I'm not sure if it's understandable what I want, so I here's a
> small example org-file and a description of what I want to see and how
> I want to work on it:
> Basic layout of the org-file:
> * Part 1
>  :CLOCK:
>  CLOCK: [2009-07-20 Mon 12:40]--[2009-07-20 Mon 14:43] =>  2:03
>  CLOCK: [2009-07-23 Thu 22:28]--[2009-07-23 Thu 22:48] =>  0:20
>  :END:
> * Part 2
>  :CLOCK:
>  CLOCK: [2009-07-24 Fri 09:45]--[2009-07-24 Fri 11:15] =>  1:30
>  :END:
>
> What I want:
> (Re-)start at any time the clocking of one of either Part 1 or Part 2
> whenever I'm working on it and get summaries of the total working
> times on a day, week, or whatever time interval I want and the total
> working time I've spent on the project or single parts on it.
>
>
> I assume that a lot of you are using org-mode exactly for this purpose
> and probably you know how to do it better, so if you have any
> suggestions how I could do it better please tell me :-)
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geralt.
>
>
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