From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-log-done vs. State Logbook
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:45:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3vb9msx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CACbjG0tpKHsKKMYMZhHxJoO-NoWn7pxJR05Ne740a9yNwRrKGQ@mail.gmail.com
Yuri Niyazov <yuri.niyazov@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> So, I am trying to learn org-mode and figure out what's best for me.
> One of the things that I would like to see is how long a TODO task
> takes to travel through my life, on average from the moment when it is
> captured, to scheduled, to done. Does something like this already
> exists?
>
> One of the things I learned earlier today from this thread
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-10/msg00112.html
> was that there's nothing that allows you to log state at the moment of
> capture, so I created a capture template with a LOGBOOK drawer
> included with an initial state change, like this:
>
> "* TODO %?
> SCHEDULED: %^t
> :LOGBOOK:
> - State \"CAPTURED\" from \"\" %u
> :END:"
>
> Now, one of the things that I am finding hard to figure out is what to
> do at the end: there's both the ability to log when the object is done
> using org-log-done, and one can also track every state change, which
> includes the final state change of being done, with LOGBOOK state
> changes. I am leaning towards turning them both on going forward, but
> I have a bunch of old tasks, and some of them only have the CLOSED:
> [timestamp] entry, and some of them only have the -State "DONE" from
> "TODO" line in Logbook, and I don't know whether to invest the time
> into fixing up the old entries to mirror the existing ones. The answer
> to this depends on whether a package for for displaying statistics to
> me already exists, and if it depends on one of those (CLOSED entry vs.
> Logbook state changes).
>
> I know about clocktable, but clocktable seems to only be for
> Clocking-in and Clocking-out entries, not across the lifetime of a
> task.
You could maybe take a look at org-habit? I haven't really used it, so I
can't tell you about its ins and outs, but it might be useful. On the
other hand, it seems to be mostly for repeating habits. Dunno what else
there is...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-04 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-03 8:42 org-log-done vs. State Logbook Yuri Niyazov
2015-01-04 4:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-01-04 4:57 ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-01-04 5:02 ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-01-04 5:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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