From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Agenda view: How many hours did I work today, and on what
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:30:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqj6plq1.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k53mtyzj.fsf@CPU107.opentrends.net> (Daniel Clemente's message of "Mon\, 08 Jun 2009 19\:30\:08 +0200")
Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I would like to know how others have solved following questions about their work:
>
> - How many hours did I work today? (of course, only time clocked with org does count)
> - What have I worked on exactly today? (or any other day)
>
>
> I have been trying „column mode“ in agenda view (with Effort and CLOCK columns) and „log mode“ (key „l“ in agenda view), but neither does exactly what I want.
>
> For instance, if I'm reporting about today's time:
> - if I worked today 10 minutes on a task which accounts for 2h of clocked time in the past, I want to count 10 minutes work for today, instead of showing 2h and telling „I worked today on a 2h task“
> - my report must show only tasks on which I actually worked today, on not the ones which may have any other relation with today. For instance, a task scheduled for today but with 30min from yesterday shouldn't appear, because I didn't work on it today
> - if today I clocked task A for 5 minutes, then clocked in B for 10 minutes, and then A again 30 minutes, ideally I would like to see 2 lines for task A (5+30), instead of just accounting 35 minutes
> - the sum of today's hours should be correct: if I have been clocking tasks from 10:00 to 19:00, I expect the sum to be around 9 hours
> - the report should be exact and not sum up times in level-3-headings; tasks from all levels should be listed together instead
> - ideally, the report would state not only the time per task, but from which hour to what hour; ex: 10:58 to 11:22, worked 24min on task „****** try this“
>
>
>
> My motivation to have these queries are:
> - know how much work I clock daily with org and help me to clock more
> - be sure that at my job I'm working as many hours per day as I'm expected to (no more, no less)
> - do a weekly review to know the tasks I worked on longer at each day from last week
> - extract some work patterns: do I work more at the morning, at the night; for how long, …
>
>
> Has someone a 100% pleasant solution for this?
In the agenda hit 'R' to get a clock report that only covers the period
of time displayed by the agenda.
-Bernt
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-08 17:30 Agenda view: How many hours did I work today, and on what Daniel Clemente
2009-06-08 19:30 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-06-09 9:32 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-06-09 12:51 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-06-11 8:50 ` Daniel Clemente
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