From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Niyazov Subject: Re: org-log-done vs. State Logbook Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 20:57:29 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87r3vb9msx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7dGM-0000GU-2o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:58:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7dGK-00006E-Mu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:58:02 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22c]:45478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7dGK-00005v-Ei for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:58:00 -0500 Received: by mail-la0-f44.google.com with SMTP id gd6so17093457lab.17 for ; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:57:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87r3vb9msx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Thank you. I am already using it, and org-habit really is for habits, rather than for individual tasks. The closest non-Org analogy I can think of what I am trying to implement is (for the programmers out there) the "SCRUM" development methodology. I know it has its detractors and is quite controversial, but the one aspect of it that I liked when I was exposed to it is that it required someone to keep track of how long it took a task, on average, to go from "created" to "completed" stage. On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Yuri Niyazov writes: > >> 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. > > You could maybe take a look at org-habit? I haven't really used it, so I > can't tell you about its ins and outs, but it might be useful. On the > other hand, it seems to be mostly for repeating habits. Dunno what else > there is... > >