From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: defining a clocktable in a capture template with absolute timespan computed relative to today Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 17:44:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87wr4u9s2l.fsf@norang.ca> References: <80haw595tc.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPhLF-00052h-9Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 17:44:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPhLC-0000h7-Jq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 17:44:08 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:48704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPhLC-0000ej-GQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 17:44:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Brian van den Broek's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:29:03 +0200") 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: Brian van den Broek Cc: Ippei FURUHASHI , emacs-orgmode Brian van den Broek writes: > After doing this for a while, I abandoned it as having too much > overhead for how I am presently working. I am on leave from a college > teaching job for this academic year, and most of the projects that I > am working on are large ongoing ones that I want to work on each day, > but don't have broken down into estimate-able subtasks. (For instance, > I am writing a textbook; I want to spend at least 2 hours a day on > that, and will keep doing so until it is done, but there are no > detailed subtasks suitable for estimation.) There is little flux and > it is easy enough to tell by use of the clock table alone how well I > am living up to my intentions. For this maybe try clocking the task in with an effort estimate of 2 hours and CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL property set to 'today' --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * TODO Work on some task for 2 hours daily :PROPERTIES: :CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL: today :Effort: 2:00 :END: [2012-05-02 Wed 17:41] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- then you can easily see how much time you've spent on the task on the modeline daily as you work on it (and what your limit/target amount is) HTH, Bernt