From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: How to estimate effort by week? Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:32:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87r514gmap.fsf@norang.ca> References: <4EC672D3.70402@googlemail.com> <8762ihs864.fsf@sbs.ch> <4EC68D12.5050509@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRmud-0001wR-Dx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:33:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRmuc-0004Ay-D4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:33:03 -0500 Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.66]:10916 helo=mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRmuc-0004AU-BD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:33:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4EC68D12.5050509@googlemail.com> (Christoph LANGE's message of "Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:51:30 +0100") 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: Christoph LANGE Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Christian Egli Christoph LANGE writes: > Hi Christian, > > 2011-11-18 17:32 Christian Egli: >> Christoph LANGE writes: >>> is there any way of estimating effort by week? >> >> Have a look at the doc string of org-effort-durations. >> >> Documentation: >> Conversion factor to minutes for an effort modifier. > > Thanks for your pointer, but (if I got you right) that wasn't what I > meant to ask. > > So let me try to ask more precisely: I was not interested in > expressing that a task would take me an estimated time of N weeks, but > in expressing that I would spend at most per > week on that task. Hi Christoph, Is this to help limit you to that time per week or for estimating? For limiting you can set up something like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * STARTED Some task SCHEDULED: <2011-11-21 Mon +1w> :LOGBOOK: - State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-11-19 Sat 10:27] CLOCK: [2011-11-19 Sat 10:25]--[2011-11-19 Sat 10:27] => 0:02 CLOCK: [2011-11-19 Sat 09:28]--[2011-11-19 Sat 10:27] => 0:59 :END: :PROPERTIES: :Effort: 1:00 :LAST_REPEAT: [2011-11-19 Sat 10:27] :END: Limit work to 60 minutes per week Let it repeat for next week --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- where the task repeats at some interval (weekly since you want to work up to 1 hour per week on this task). When you clock in the task the modeline shows your current clocked minutes on the task _since your last repeat_. Set your Effort property to the limit you want for the task for the interval and set your repeat to the size of your interval (1 hour per week in this case) So when you reach the limit of 1 hour (in this case) you mark the task DONE which stops the clock and rescheduled the task to the next repeat date. When you clock the task in again the modeline shows 0:00 and counts up to the effort limit again. Does that help? Regards, Bernt