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From: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
To: PT <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Automatic clocking
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:30:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a7j17aa.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090821T202641-395@post.gmane.org> (PT's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:35:27 +0000 (UTC)")

Here is another approach to this auto-clocking question.

Maybe what you really want to track is not how much time you spend on a
specific task but rather how you distribute your time over the tasks.

In this case, you don't need to explicitely clock in and out.  You can
act as if a clock was always running¹ and then you register any action
you take on your Org file.  "Working on this X task" would just be an
action among others like "switching task X from TODO state to NEXT",
"closing task X", "Archiving task X", "Moving task X under Tree T", 
etc.

Thus, instead of automating the aggregation of clocked-in tasks, you
consider yourself always clocked in and you automate the logging of
stuff you do (from which you can extract clock information later.)

I guess this idea come closer to what Samuel had in mind when he talked
about "profiling".

¹ Actually, astronomers from this list could tell us that the universe
  is such a running clock in itself :)

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 18:35 Feature idea: Automatic clocking PT
2009-08-21 19:26 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-08-23 10:38   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-21 23:15 ` Samuel Wales
2009-08-23  4:30 ` Bastien [this message]
     [not found] <DICKENSGQnnJOxa3bb20000006e@dickens.campus.up.edu>
2009-08-22 16:18 ` Nuxoll, Andrew

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