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From: Samuel Loury <konubinix@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode Habit with Varying Description
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:21:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egu1zk8k.fsf@konixwork.incubateur.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjcqz2f2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

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Hi,
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I've been (very gradually) working on something I'm calling org-log, for
> just this sort of situation -- a library that would possibly go
> underneath org-habit and maybe even org-clock. It would look like:
>
> * Read <book>
>   :LOGBOOK:
>   - Note taken on [2014-10-20 Mon 10:33] \\
>     PAGES: 49
>   - Note taken on [2014-10-20 Mon 10:32] \\
>     PAGES: 150
>   :END:
>
> When adding notes (or state-change log notes) the user would be prompted
> to record values for the key(s) already existing in the logbook (in this
> case, PAGES). Multiple key-value pairs would be possible. Generic tables
> could be created for a heading, with more specialized tables with
> user-defined column formulas and all that.
>
> Add unit manipulation/calculation from the calc-units package, and I
> think this could be a nice extension to Org.
>
> I originally started thinking of this while translating a novel. I had a
> certain number of characters to translate, and a certain deadline. What
> I wanted was a single heading where I logged my progress, and a
> reporting facility that said "given today's date and how many characters
> you've already done, you'll need to average XXX characters per day to
> hit the deadline." I envisioned a gnuplot table that showed
> actual-characters-per-day against the shifting
> average-characters-per-day.

That is a very interesting idea. Do you think we could see your actual
work?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-20 14:33 Org-mode Habit with Varying Description Daya Atapattu
2014-10-20 14:52 ` Bastien
2014-10-20 15:46   ` Daya Atapattu
2014-10-20 16:02 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2014-10-20 17:37 ` Pete Ley
2014-10-21  0:34   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-21 12:21     ` Samuel Loury [this message]
2014-10-21 16:29       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-24  3:42         ` Pete Ley
2014-10-26 15:51           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-28 13:28             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-28 13:41               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-28 15:01               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-28 16:22                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-28 16:38                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-10-29 20:48                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-20 19:13 ` Melleus
2014-10-20 20:03 ` Brady Trainor
2014-10-21 15:37 ` Michael Brand

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