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From: Yuri Niyazov <yuri.niyazov@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: org-log-done vs. State Logbook
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 00:42:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACbjG0tpKHsKKMYMZhHxJoO-NoWn7pxJR05Ne740a9yNwRrKGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi everyone,


  So, I am trying to learn org-mode and figure out what's best for me.
One of the things that I would like to see is how long a TODO task
takes to travel through my life, on average from the moment when it is
captured, to scheduled, to done. Does something like this already
exists?

One of the things I learned earlier today from this thread
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-10/msg00112.html
was that there's nothing that allows you to log state at the moment of
capture, so I created a capture template with a LOGBOOK drawer
included with an initial state change, like this:

"* TODO %?
SCHEDULED: %^t
:LOGBOOK:
- State \"CAPTURED\"   from \"\"           %u
:END:"

Now, one of the things that I am finding hard to figure out is what to
do at the end: there's both the ability to log when the object is done
using org-log-done, and one can also track every state change, which
includes the final state change of being done, with LOGBOOK state
changes. I am leaning towards turning them both on going forward, but
I have a bunch of old tasks, and some of them only have the CLOSED:
[timestamp] entry, and some of them only have the -State "DONE" from
"TODO" line in Logbook, and I don't know whether to invest the time
into fixing up the old entries to mirror the existing ones. The answer
to this depends on whether a package for for displaying statistics to
me already exists, and if it depends on one of those (CLOSED entry vs.
Logbook state changes).

I know about clocktable, but clocktable seems to only be for
Clocking-in and Clocking-out entries, not across the lifetime of a
task.

next             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-03  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-03  8:42 Yuri Niyazov [this message]
2015-01-04  4:45 ` org-log-done vs. State Logbook Eric Abrahamsen
2015-01-04  4:57   ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-01-04  5:02     ` Yuri Niyazov
2015-01-04  5:19       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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