* Scheduling time+effort or (ab-?)using org-agenda-default-duration
@ 2012-06-19 19:26 Memnon Anon
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From: Memnon Anon @ 2012-06-19 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi org people,
I am trying to make my life a bit easier and would love some advice.
* Short:
Has anyone a little schedule/timestamp function which takes
time of day (e.g. 10:20 or 10pm) and schedules/timestamps items
as time+effort (e.g. 10:20+0:30)?
A tiny change to org-agenda-format-item (s.b.) seems to work, but I am
worried about side effects.
* Long:
Whenever new things come up, I quickly capture it, set a reasonable
effort and schedule it for tomorrow unless there is a cogent reason to do
otherwise. Each morning, I go through my daily agenda, do some
rescheduling if necessary and happily start ticking things of the list.
So far, I avoided setting specific time-slots for items.
However, I feel like it is time to test a different approach and
actually assign times. So I start with a bunch of items and want to
shuffle them around in the timetable, or rather sort them morning to
evening. I usually (always?!) finish items in one run, so it would
be convenient to just enter a start time and get a timestamp with a
duration of starttime+effort.
I had a look at the different functions involved, and bumped into
`org-agenda-default-appointment-duration' (didn't know about that one)
which is used in `org-agenda-format-item' (and only there afaict).
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
;; Try to set s2 if s1 and `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration' are set
(when (and s1 (not s2) org-agenda-default-appointment-duration)
(setq s2
(org-minutes-to-hh:mm-string
(+ (org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes s1) org-agenda-default-appointment-duration))))
#+end_src
The easiest way to get the behavior I think I would like is a tiny
change like
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
;; Try to set s2 if s1 and `org-agenda-default-appointment-duration' are set
(when (and s1 (not s2) org-agenda-default-appointment-duration)
(if (org-get-effort) ; prefer effort over org-agenda-default-appointment-duration
(setq s2
(org-minutes-to-hh:mm-string
(+ (org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes s1)
(org-duration-string-to-minutes (org-get-effort)))))
(setq s2
(org-minutes-to-hh:mm-string
(+ (org-hh:mm-string-to-minutes s1) org-agenda-default-appointment-duration)))))
#+end_src
... which seems to work afaict after very superficial testing.
Are there any side effects I missed?
Breaking org would seriously mess up my life :)
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