From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Gardella Subject: Re: clocking ongoing items Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:50:53 -0500 Message-ID: <87ehitqdgi.fsf@gmail.com> References: <50CACC76.9060002@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Rainer, Rainer Stengele writes: > Hi all! > > I wonder how others are clocking ongoing isues, which are not really > todos but more like "issues" collecting clocked time for work done > regularly. Example: Reading mail and organising daily priorities of > tasks. This "todo" will not finish very soon. I want this item to be > clocked daily but do not want it to look like a standard todo. How do > others handle this? I remember Bernt once had a tag "ONGOING" which he > dropped again. > > Cheers, > Rainer > > > Your use case sounds like a good fit for the `org-habit' module. See (info "(org) Tracking your habits"). A habit is like a periodic TODO which you mark DONE each time you complete it for the day, but it resets itself to being "undone" again after an interval of time passes. Habits also come with a nice display in agenda views to show you how often you actually do something. (I use this feature to track my daily meditation habits, for example). This way, together with org's time clock, the task is periodic, but the clock times and relevant notes can still all be kept in one place and the task can be represented as a single headline. Best, -- WGG I use grml (http://grml.org/)