emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed

From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: J Aaron Farr <farra@apache.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: time tracking common activities
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:35:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skm9p9qj.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wsbl8fly.fsf@apache.org>

J Aaron Farr wrote:

>I'm using org-mode to track my time on projects and todo items, but
>I'd also like to start tracking time I spend on things such as my
>email, reading rss feeds, etc.  I'd prefer to continue to use
>org-mode for that so that all my time tracking is in one place with
>one system.

>My current thought is to have a `diary.org` file that I keep tasks
>that don't clearly fit in any of my projects.  The file would look
>something like:

>    *** DONE Checking email                  :email:
>        CLOSED: [2009-02-20 Fri 18:56]
>        :CLOCK:
>        CLOCK: [2009-02-20 Fri 17:56]--[2009-02-20 Fri 18:56] =>  1:00
>        :END:

I don't see anything wrong with this, but I also don't see the need
for a TODO. Do you need to be reminded to check email?  You could just
make a headline, and clock on that.  Clocktables (or, maybe,
clocktable view in agenda mode) could narrow down e.g. time spent
reading email in one week.

I guess you would still have to think about comfortable ways to find
the right file/buffer and clock in there.

David

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-20 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-20 12:20 time tracking common activities J Aaron Farr
2009-02-20 12:35 ` David Bremner [this message]
2009-02-20 15:01   ` Bernt Hansen
2009-02-20 15:49     ` Bernt Hansen
2009-02-20 15:45   ` Peter Jones
2009-02-20 16:01     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-02-20 20:30       ` Sebastian Rose
2009-02-21  3:51       ` J Aaron Farr
2009-02-20 14:40 ` Jason F. McBrayer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87skm9p9qj.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca \
    --to=bremner@unb.ca \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    --cc=farra@apache.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).