From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mehul Sanghvi Subject: Re: Feature that org mode needs most Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:33:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrFON-0002ZZ-3J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:33:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrFOL-0003hD-UW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:33:15 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:50251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrFOL-0003gv-GD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:33:13 -0400 Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2so1671443pbb.0 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:33:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Joseph Thomas Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Joseph Thomas wrote: > Hello. > I couldn't believe I hadn't been aware of org mode until a few months ago, > as someone who's been using emacs for everything for many years. > > I use it to journal how all my time is spent in a given work day- for both > work related tasks and non-work tasks (ex. getting coffee, lunch, > conversations, etc.). Org mode is the only GTD software package I've seen > that makes this possible without getting in the way. It just needs one > small thing that keeps it from being perfect. > > Those who use it the same way I do (as a log of how all time was spent in a > given day), there's no easy way I can see to make quick adjustments to > clocked time between activities. Every day I will forget to clock to a new > activity at some point. By the time I remember, time has passed. For > example, I come back from a meeting and begin to work on a project. 20 > minutes into it, I clock in. But I must then manually adjust both the > previous activity and the current one so that they are accurate and don't > overlap in the agenda view. This can be cumbersome, which seems to go > against the overall idea of org mode. All that is needed to correct it is > either a new fn and key binding, or a prefix arg to org-clock-in that allows > you to enter an adjustment (in this example, 20) to subtract from the > previous clock's out time and current clock's in time. > > Seems like it would be a minor thing to add that would make an enormous > difference for users like me. > > Thanks for reading my request! > > Regards, > Joe Joe, You can use the S-up and S-down key combinations to adjust the clocks for the current activity and the previous one. Move over to the hour and do S-up or S-down, then do the same with the minutes. The date gets adjusted automatically if you're straddling midnight. cheers, mehul p.s. does that make org-mode perfect now ? :) -- Mehul N. Sanghvi email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com