Re: timer for a task

From: Eraldo Helal <admin@eraldo.at>
To: Konstantin Antipin <antipin.konstantin@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: timer for a task
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 12:44:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <938fae2d0905250344i71979176yc7f0b6e47380ce6f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61176df0905250330k4a21837bv755defde84297f69@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds good to me.

Eraldo

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:30, Konstantin Antipin
<antipin.konstantin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> Yes, you are right indeed. I am talking about effort estimates - I'v
> missed this chapter for some reason from the manual.
> I like the idea you proposed - to show how much time is left in the
> mode line. And I think I am going to write necessary code for this.
>
> Or, may be someone has even better idea?
>
> best,
> Konstantin
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>  I suppose you talk about estimated efforts. I also have noticed that I work better if I have defined them, but it is very easy to miss them and work on a task more time than planned.
>>  An easy improvement would be to show at the mode line not only how much time you have worked on the current task but also the remaining time according to your effort estimate. And if it comes to 0, highlight it noticeably.
>>
>>  Other useful things to show would be the *total* elapsed time (not only the elapsed time of the last C-c C-x C-i) or directly the effort estimate (instead of the remaining time, the total time).
>>
>>  And as you say, an alarm would be useful.
>>
>> -- Daniel
>>
>> El dl, mai 25 2009, Konstantin Antipin va escriure:
>>> Hi everybody!
>>> I am constantly trying to be more productive, and there is one thing
>>> that I noticed:
>>> If you give yourself a specific time for a task, then you tend to
>>> finish this task in this time. It helps to stay focused and do stuff
>>> that is most important.
>>>
>>> So, the question is - Is there any way to set a timer on a taks, and
>>> get a bell when it is expired?
>>> Some time before I even wrote a small extension that helps me to do
>>> that http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/tea-time
>>> But now I am thinking - is there an orgmode-way to do that? It would
>>> be great to integrate it with great time tracking system, for
>>> example...
>>> If nobody uses proposed feature, please give me a hint how it would be
>>> best to do that.
>>>
>>>
>>> my best,
>>> Konstantin
>>>
>>>
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