From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
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 15:14:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ot199m8.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbdd0e50907241019p54e2a133rabd3afc0603b4645@mail.gmail.com> (Geralt's message of "Fri\, 24 Jul 2009 19\:19\:49 +0200")
Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bernt Hansen<bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>> Just visit the org file with the task you want to clock in and do C-c
>> C-x C-i to clock it in. C-c C-x C-o stops the clock (or when you clock
>> in something else it stops). You can only clock one thing at a time.
>> Play with it in a test task to see how it works.
>>
>> You can clock in from the agenda directly (if it's visible there) with
>> just I (and O for clock out)
>>
> Hi,
>
> thanks, that's working fine :-)
>
>
>> I've documented how I use clocking stuff here:
>>
>> http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking
>>
> I already looked into that, but I couldn't find how to track the time
> of entries without a DATE property.
l (ell) in the agenda shows logged clock times. You can also get a
clock summary report with (R) or insert a dynamic block in your org file
(see the manual). C-c C-x C-d will summarize clocked time by task
(totals only) overlayed on the headlines.
> >
>> The agenda is not limited to date ranges. You can find tasks to clock
>> in via the agenda in lots of ways such as:
>>
>> - tags searches (C-c a m)
>> - org-occur searches by regexp (C-c a /)
>> - custom agenda view
>>
> I tried that, but when searching for matching tasks I can't see their
> clocked time in this view (when pressing R org tells me that this
> operation is not allowed in such a buffer).
This works for easily locating the task to clock in. To get clock
reports you want R in a day/weekly/monthly agenda, or l (log mode), or L
for a single org-file. You can also summarize clock times in a dynamic
clock table within an org file.
R in the agenda is only available in day/week/monthly agenda views. You
can specify an explicit date range in a dynamic clock report in your org
file. Check the manual for details.
-Bernt
>
> What I just tried was to add a DATE property like this:
> :DATE:
> DATE: <2009-07-24 Fri>
> DATE: <2009-07-20 Thu>
> :END:
> With this I can see the task in the agenda and see the clocked
> time(s), but I have to add an entry every time I'm working on it (and
> it's redundant because this information is already in the CLOCK
> property).
> I haven't used a custom agenda before, is there a way to create one
> that shows tasks in a timeline by looking at the dates in the CLOCK
> property?
No - I use custom agenda view to find _what_ to clock in quickly.
Reports are different (check the next section of my document)
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-26 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 10:40 How to track time spent on a project Geralt
2009-07-24 12:16 ` Greg Newman
2009-07-24 12:27 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-07-24 17:19 ` Geralt
2009-07-24 19:14 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-07-27 10:42 ` Geralt
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