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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Tom Weissmann <trmsw@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Progress logging with org-mode
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:44:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80f759140e2a298fcb4de1f0393987aa@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070929T004704-153@post.gmane.org>

Hi Tom,

On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:01, Tom Weissmann wrote:

> A feature of org-mode I have started to use a lot is the clock, to  
> record the
> amount of time I spend on different tasks. I'll start a clock in the  
> task or
> subtask I'm working on, and then clock out and add a note when I move  
> to a
> differnt task.
>
> The result is often something like this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ----
> * Tasks
> ** Task 1
> *** Sub-task Foo
>     CLOCK: [2007-09-28 Fri 11:52]--[2007-09-28 Fri 12:53] =>  1:01
>     - Finally cracked the Foo problem
>       CLOCK: [2007-09-28 Fri 10:50]--[2007-09-28 Fri 11:50] =>  1:00
>     - Dealing with problems continuing Foo-ing
>       CLOCK: [2007-09-28 Fri 09:50]--[2007-09-28 Fri 10:50] =>  1:00
>     - A good start to Foo
>
>       This is some information that I don't want to forget about doing  
> Foo.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ----
>
> As you can see, the clock notes track my activity within a subtask,  
> but the
> indentation seems odd,

I cannot reproduce the indentation you are getting - are you  
re-indenting the lines
with TAB or so?

> and the useful information about the subtask is in
> danger of being swamped by a mass of reverse-ordered progress logs.

Actually, I have been bothered by that too.  Maybe we should have
a special CLOCK drawer and make all those entries go in there....

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-29  1:01 Progress logging with org-mode Tom Weissmann
2007-10-04  9:44 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-10-04 10:08   ` Tom Weissmann
2007-10-04 10:45     ` Carsten Dominik
2007-10-04 11:02       ` Tom Weissmann

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