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From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining time in effort estimates
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:55:15 +0000
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To: Michael Gummelt <mgummelt1@gmail.com>
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Hello Michael,

I did something like this a while ago but there was not much interest
at the time and I don't use it anymore:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/61459/focus=61555

It would probably need updating but I hope it is useful to you.

Myles

Michael Gummelt writes:

> Hi,
>
> I set effort estimates on a list of subtasks.  I can sum those estimates as
> described here: http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html
>
> What I'd like to do is see the remaining effort estimate time in the
> supertask.  For example, if I have a supertask with 10 subtasks, and I mark
> 3 of them complete, I'd like to see the sum of the 7 incomplete tasks.  The
> link above shows how you can view a CLOCKSUM, but that is a different value.
>
> Knowing how long is remaining on a supertask seems to be a fundamental
> feature for project management.  Is there any solution in org mode?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Gummelt