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From: Inanna Underhill <peregrinehill@comcast.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: A more generic Effort property?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:41:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od0l6jeu.fsf@mrs-clingwrap.csail.mit.edu> (raw)


Hi,

I am really enjoying upgrading from 5.23 to 6.11, especially the new
summing in the columns-view of the agenda buffer.  I'd been trying to
figure out something like the Effort property behavior on my own, so
this is a bonus, too.  Thank you!

In my own thinking about effort, however, effort is a psychological
phenomenon.  For example, some things that I do only take a short time
but are very difficult (nagging small children) , while others take a
long time but are easy (reading a book).  I use the property DURATION to
do what you are doing with Effort.

So, obviously, I just changed the default name of the effort property to
DURATION and that solves that.

But here is (finally) why I'm writing.  I think the Effort function you
have designed should be more generic - specifically that it should not
require a HH:MM format.  That would significantly increase the number of
ways people could use it.  As an expense tracker, for example, or with a
simple integer for physical or psychological strain. Or even memory usage!

Ideally, multiple properties could share the Effort functionality, but
that may be opening a whole new can of worms.

I'm going to try to write an add-on myself, but I figured I'd throw it out
there in case people think it would be a useful change to the core
program.

Inanna

next             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 15:41 Inanna Underhill [this message]
2008-11-12 16:05 ` A more generic Effort property? sergio
2008-11-12 23:14   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-13 14:29     ` sergio
2008-11-13 14:36       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-12 23:16 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-13  1:00   ` Inanna Underhill
2008-11-13  8:26     ` Carsten Dominik

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