* Automatic Elapsed Time Stamps?
@ 2007-07-27 20:07 Alan Dove
2007-07-27 20:56 ` Adam Spiers
2007-07-27 22:44 ` Bastien
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From: Alan Dove @ 2007-07-27 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hey, folks:
In my work, I often take notes at a meeting while simultaneously
taping it. To refer back to specific parts of the tape later, I
periodically check the elapsed time on the digital recorder, and
enter that in my notes (which I take in org-mode, of course). This
works, but it seems to me there should be a better solution. Given
all of org-mode's timestamp and clocking capabilities, is there some
way I can start a clock, then have it automatically insert stamps
with the elapsed time at set intervals as I type? If not, can anyone
suggest some elisp functions I might explore to try to hack this
together as a macro?
Thanks very much.
--Alan
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* Re: Automatic Elapsed Time Stamps?
2007-07-27 20:07 Automatic Elapsed Time Stamps? Alan Dove
@ 2007-07-27 20:56 ` Adam Spiers
2007-07-27 22:44 ` Bastien
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From: Adam Spiers @ 2007-07-27 20:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:07:39PM -0400, Alan Dove wrote:
> Hey, folks:
>
> In my work, I often take notes at a meeting while simultaneously
> taping it. To refer back to specific parts of the tape later, I
> periodically check the elapsed time on the digital recorder, and
> enter that in my notes (which I take in org-mode, of course). This
> works, but it seems to me there should be a better solution. Given
> all of org-mode's timestamp and clocking capabilities, is there some
> way I can start a clock, then have it automatically insert stamps
> with the elapsed time at set intervals as I type? If not, can anyone
> suggest some elisp functions I might explore to try to hack this
> together as a macro?
I was about to point you in the direction of the Elisp info pages, but
then got interested in the interfaces, and quickly realised it
wouldn't take many more minutes to write the code myself. If you
still want the fun of writing it yourself, look away now! :-)
(defun clock-start ()
"Starts a clock which can then be used by
`clock-insert-elapsed' to insert elapsed time into the current buffer."
(interactive)
(setq clock-start (current-time)))
(defun clock-time-elapsed ()
"Returns the elapsed time since the clock was started with `clock-start'."
(interactive)
(let* ((elapsed (truncate (float-time (time-since clock-start))))
(secs (% elapsed 60))
(mins (/ elapsed 60))
(hours (/ mins 60)))
(format "%d:%02d:%02d" hours mins secs)))
(defun clock-insert-elapsed ()
"Inserts the elapsed time since the clock was started with `clock-start'."
(interactive)
(insert "CLOCK: " (clock-time-elapsed)))
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* Re: Automatic Elapsed Time Stamps?
2007-07-27 20:07 Automatic Elapsed Time Stamps? Alan Dove
2007-07-27 20:56 ` Adam Spiers
@ 2007-07-27 22:44 ` Bastien
2007-07-28 16:58 ` Bastien
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From: Bastien @ 2007-07-27 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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Alan Dove <alan.dove@gmail.com> writes:
> In my work, I often take notes at a meeting while simultaneously
> taping it.
Same here. In addition to what Adam sent, i see two solutions:
1. Use org-clock-in, org-clock-out and org-clock-report.
Put the time report (C-c C-x C-r) at the beginning of the first level
of your writing, then clock (out and) in each time you insert a new
sublevel. Make sure clock-out is not a member of `org-log-done' so
that you won't be prompted for a log entry each time you clock out.
2. Use an `Elapsed_time' property. Here is a quick hack that could help:
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What it does:
`bzg-step-time-report-initialize' will prompt for the name of the
project. This headline have a property called "Elapsed_time". It's
computed when you switch to the column view (C-c C-x C-x) or when you
press C-c C-c in front of it.
`bzg-step-time-report-add-step' will update the `Elapsed_time' value
of the previous headline and insert a new one.
`bzg-step-time-report-finish' will just update the `Elapsed_time'
value of the previous headline.
Of course, this could be refined... but I hope it might help!
Regards,
PS: You might also have a look at the `run-at-time' function, but either
you need to get the time intervals between steps, or you need to know on
what frequency they are inserted, right? See (info "(elisp)Timers")
--
Bastien
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* Re: Automatic Elapsed Time Stamps?
2007-07-27 22:44 ` Bastien
@ 2007-07-28 16:58 ` Bastien
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From: Bastien @ 2007-07-28 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
> 2. Use an `Elapsed_time' property.
I've been playing a bit with Org's property API[1]. So here is a much
cleaner version of the code:
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Notes:
[1] See (info "(Org)Using the property API") for details.
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Bastien
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