From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Journal versus clock tables: Opposing requirements? Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:27:49 -0500 Message-ID: <87hb2ggoju.fsf@norang.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNNMz-0002Xf-6R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:28:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNNMx-0000OK-Pn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:28:05 -0500 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:60895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNNMx-0000NA-Mu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:28:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Tommy Kelly's message of "Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:31:31 +0000") 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@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Tommy Kelly Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Tommy Kelly writes: > I'm trying to get org-mode to provide me with two things, but haven't > found a way to do it. > > 1. First, I want to be able to use it like a daily engineering or > science journal, logging notes as they occur, in pretty much linear > fashion chronologically. Or, more to the point, I want to be able to > report and look at items as they occurred, in pretty much linear > fashion chronologically. Essentially I want to be able to report on > activity by time of occurrence, not topic. > > 2. But second, I want to see clock tables covering a period of time, > which groups related items together regardless of when (within the > given period) they happened. Essentially I want to be able to report > on actrivity by topic, not time of occurrence. > > I'm using some of Bernt Hansen's excellent setup, but it still isn't > getting me quite where I want to be. > > I'll note also that the agenda's log mode doesn't really give me point > 1. It simply lists the *headlines* which have a clock entry or > timestamp at a given time. I want to see my entire journal -- a la a > blog. (*Ideally* I'd like to be able to control the depth to which > that entire journal output went to, but seeing the whole shebang would > be a good start.) > > Anyone have any ideas how to do this. Hi Tommy, For item 1) can you use the display of inactive timestamps to get part of the information you want in the agenda and then visit the items with either follow mode (F) or manually visit each item with SPC to get more detail? If you create an inactive timestamp for every new note you log you can display that timestamp with [ or ] in the agenda. This is what I do. For item 2) I would use agenda clock reports R while displaying the agenda time frame you are interested in. You can limit the agenda to certain tags and use C-u R to limit the clock report to only those tags. HTH, Bernt