From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tracking time from one state to another?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:09:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v9z6cesk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg06hap5.fsf@mbork.pl>
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> On 2019-04-18, at 17:34, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> On 2019-04-17, at 14:20, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible in org-mode to track, and report, the duration of certain
>>>> state transitions in org-mode? In particular, I'm interested in
>>>> tracking how long it takes me to go from a state that means I'm actively
>>>> working on an item to it being in a done state?
>>>>
>>>> In my case, an item might go from working, to waiting, to working, to
>>>> done. And in this case I'm only really interested in the last working
>>>> to done time.
>>>>
>>>> For my case, I'm looking to do a weekly report on how long it takes me
>>>> to complete tasks that I have said I will work on.
>>>
>>> Hi Malcolm,
>>>
>>> that sounds interesting. Since you can turn on logging of state changes
>>> (as you probably know), this is in principle possible, though I don't
>>> think it is built in.
>>>
>>> I guess writing a bit of Elisp to accomplish this should not be very
>>> difficult, though it seems that currently the problem is a bit
>>> underspecified. If you could elaborate, e.g., provide an example of
>>> your state change log and describe the result you would like to get,
>>> I could be tempted to coding this.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>
>> Sure!
>>
>> So for my use case, I'm mostly interested in the last transition to a
>> finished state, but for simplicity I'll specify the two states I'm
>> interested in:
>>
>> Given states NEXT and DONE, I want to know the time between going into
>> NEXT and over to DONE.
>>
>> For example, given the following logbook:
>>
>> :LOGBOOK:
>> - State "DONE" from "NEXT" [2019-04-01 Mon 11:07]
>> - State "NEXT" from "TODO" [2019-04-01 Mon 10:35]
>> - State "NEXT" from "TODO" [2018-07-02 Mon 11:03]
>> :END:
>>
>>
>> This item would be 32 minutes.
>>
>> This one:
>>
>> :LOGBOOK:
>> - State "DONE" from "NEXT" [2019-04-10 Wed 09:56]
>> - State "NEXT" from "WAITING" [2019-04-10 Wed 09:40]
>> - State "WAITING" from "NEXT" [2019-04-09 Tue 10:44]
>> - State "NEXT" from "WAITING" [2019-04-09 Tue 10:10]
>> - State "WAITING" from "NEXT" [2019-04-08 Mon 16:39]
>> - State "NEXT" from "TODO" [2019-04-08 Mon 11:14]
>> :END:
>>
>>
>> Would be 16 minutes.
>
> Are those :LOGBOOK: drawers real? They are not sorted chronologically,
> as they probably should be (though I'm not sure, I don't se them
> much).
Yes they are real. I'm not tracking going into a TODO state which is
hwy the first one looks funny. And they are sorted chronologically, but
in reverse order, so top is most recent.
>
>> I'd like to specify what time range to do this for, and be able to sort
>> by duration.
>>
>> I think a dynamic block, like clocktable, would probably be a fine.
>>
>> Any idea what the level of work involved is to accomplish this? I'm
>> guessing a very hacky version might be to modify clock table and look at
>> the logbook instead of clock and filter out all but the last transition?
>
> I don't think that's the best way - Org-mode code is famously
> complicated, it might be easier to do it from scratch (it'd be perhaps
> less general then, though).
>
> Anyway, it doesn't look like a lot of work - an hour or two for a rough
> prototype might be enough.
Is this something you're interested in doing? If not if you have a
pointers I can try to take a poke at it. My elisp skills are very-much
lacking but some progress is better than no progress.
>
>> Also, this is just the usecase I'm interested in, so if you have
>> thoughts on what a more general form would look like, that would be interested.
>
> No idea yet.
>
> Best,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-22 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 12:20 Tracking time from one state to another? Malcolm Matalka
2019-04-18 11:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-04-18 15:34 ` Malcolm Matalka
2019-04-19 4:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-04-20 18:55 ` Julius Dittmar
2019-04-22 14:09 ` Malcolm Matalka [this message]
2019-04-22 14:27 ` Ken Mankoff
2019-04-23 6:07 ` Malcolm Matalka
2019-04-23 6:32 ` Ken Mankoff
2019-04-23 9:00 ` Malcolm Matalka
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