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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives to clocking in/out for reporting time
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:02:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87let42il3.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yrxo6D9Eq8mOjRx4@tahm>

Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> writes:

> I find Org's clocking to be too detailed, and that it doesn't play
> well with dynamically organized hierarchies of notes. I frequently
> create and close subtasks, or switch parts of the tree. Clocking each
> one is too much overhead, and too granular. I don't need to provide
> down to the minute reports of each item. It also doesn't appear to
> allow rounding of values, so I still have to adjust the results.
>
> What I envision is a way to count items in the agenda view to produce
> a time report. Counting any inactive timestamp as 15 minutes, where if
> a half hour or more is logged I round up to bill the hour. Closed TODO
> items should count toward billing that whole hour. Clearly this should
> be customized.
>
> The point is that I'm not worried about accounting time by task,
> instead I'm aggregating tasks into accounting by whole hours.
>
> I'm looking at org-element, and it appears I'd have to do my own
> agenda style scan of the whole tree to find items to classify by
> hour. While I'm somewhat proficient at elisp, that sounds like a steep
> wall to climb.
>
> Is there an iterative way to review items in an agenda view so I can
> do the math to produce a report?

You may hook into timestamp insertion/todo-state change functions and
accumulate the "time" into headline properties.

I did something conceptually similar in
https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#bonuspenalty-based-time-management

Hope it helps.

Best,
Ihor

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-08  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-29 14:59 Alternatives to clocking in/out for reporting time Russell Adams
2022-06-29 21:26 ` Tim Cross
2022-06-29 22:09   ` Russell Adams
2022-06-30  2:11 ` Samuel Wales
2022-06-30  2:12   ` Samuel Wales
2022-06-30  8:57   ` Russell Adams
2022-06-30 22:32     ` Samuel Wales
2022-07-08  7:02 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-07-08  8:10   ` Russell Adams
2022-07-09  4:00     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-09 12:44       ` Russell Adams
2022-07-10  9:30         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-10 23:09           ` Samuel Wales
2022-07-10 12:26 ` Olaf Dietsche

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