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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Traking estimated time for TODO items
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:08:46 +0800
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Andreas Hilboll <lists@hilboll.de> writes:

> Dear org experts,
>
> I have a bunch of TODOs which represent tasks that I'd like to do some
> time.  When I end up having a certain amount of spare time, I'd like to
> be able to get a list of all of these "someday" tasks which would fit
> into the available time frame.  I.e., when I know I have about 30mins,
> I'd like to see only those "someday" tasks which are estimated to be
> shorter than 30 mins.
>
> I'd like to see how people are dealing with this sort of thing.  One
> easy possibility would be to have tags "1hr", "2hrs", "0hrs", etc.
>
> I appreciate any ideas =)
>
> Cheers,
>   Andreas.

I don't use the EFFORT property, but I think it's exactly what you want.
See the (org) Effort estimates section of the manual.

Eric