From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to track time spent on a project
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:27:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlau5kqg.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbdd0e50907240340k6de76083v2083bc262f7da4e@mail.gmail.com> (Geralt's message of "Fri\, 24 Jul 2009 12\:40\:22 +0200")
Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com> writes:
> I want to track the time that I'll spend on a new project. For this
> I'm planning to use org-mode's clocking feature, so far my first tests
> (I've never used org-agenda before) showed me that I can do this
> easily from the agenda view, as long as I have a DATE: property in my
> node. And that's a bit of a problem because I don't really have a
> scheduled date when I'm going to work on a part of this project.
> Is there a way in org-mode to just clock the time and have the agenda
> view show me on the views for every day (or time interval) just the
> clocked times for every tree item that fall into this time
> interval/range?
> And how can I start clocking items that do not show up in the agenda
> view?
Just visit the org file with the task you want to clock in and do C-c
C-x C-i to clock it in. C-c C-x C-o stops the clock (or when you clock
in something else it stops). You can only clock one thing at a time.
Play with it in a test task to see how it works.
You can clock in from the agenda directly (if it's visible there) with
just I (and O for clock out)
I've documented how I use clocking stuff here:
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking
>I'm not sure if it's understandable what I want, so I here's a
> small example org-file and a description of what I want to see and how
> I want to work on it:
> Basic layout of the org-file:
> * Part 1
> :CLOCK:
> CLOCK: [2009-07-20 Mon 12:40]--[2009-07-20 Mon 14:43] => 2:03
> CLOCK: [2009-07-23 Thu 22:28]--[2009-07-23 Thu 22:48] => 0:20
> :END:
> * Part 2
> :CLOCK:
> CLOCK: [2009-07-24 Fri 09:45]--[2009-07-24 Fri 11:15] => 1:30
> :END:
>
> What I want:
> (Re-)start at any time the clocking of one of either Part 1 or Part 2
> whenever I'm working on it and get summaries of the total working
> times on a day, week, or whatever time interval I want and the total
> working time I've spent on the project or single parts on it.
>
>
> I assume that a lot of you are using org-mode exactly for this purpose
> and probably you know how to do it better, so if you have any
> suggestions how I could do it better please tell me :-)
The agenda is not limited to date ranges. You can find tasks to clock
in via the agenda in lots of ways such as:
- tags searches (C-c a m)
- org-occur searches by regexp (C-c a /)
- custom agenda view
etc.
I tend to clock in tasks that show up on my agenda for today, or from
STARTED or NEXT tag searches.
HTH,
Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 10:40 How to track time spent on a project Geralt
2009-07-24 12:16 ` Greg Newman
2009-07-24 12:27 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-07-24 17:19 ` Geralt
2009-07-24 19:14 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-07-27 10:42 ` Geralt
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