From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giovanni Ridolfi Subject: Re: Feature that org mode needs most Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:50:49 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1342601449.87301.YahooMailNeo@web29806.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: Reply-To: Giovanni Ridolfi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrPyD-000369-Lz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:51:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrPy7-0003ox-R9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:50:57 -0400 Received: from nm14.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([77.238.189.67]:46744) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrPy7-0003mU-Fx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:50:51 -0400 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 , "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Cc: Bernt Hansen =0A=0AHi, Joseph,=0A(I cc'ed also Bernt Hansen, aka "the king of clocking" = ;-)=0Amaybe he has better ideas; he's more experience than me, for sure ;)= =0A=0A=0ADa: Joseph Thomas =0AInviato: Marted=EC 17 Lug= lio 2012 23:15=0A=0A> there's no easy way I can see to make quick adjustmen= ts to clocked time between activities.=A0 =0A=0A> Every day I will forget t= o clock to a new activity at some point.=A0 =0A=0A> By the time I remember,= time has passed. =A0For example, I come back from a meeting and begin to w= ork on a project. =0A=0A>=A0 20 minutes into it, I clock in. =0A=0A>=A0 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.=A0 =0A=0A= =0AWhen you can back from a meeting you can resolve idel time=0A=A0=A0=A0 [= [info:org#Resolving%20idle%20time][info:org#Resolving idle time]]=0A=0A=0AI= f you changed your task but you forgot to clock outyou should check:=0A=0A[= [info:org#Clocking%20commands][info:org#Clocking commands]]=0A=0A=A0(`org-c= lock-in-last')'=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 Reclock the last clocked task.=A0 With one `= C-u' prefix argument,=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 select the task from the clock history= .=A0 With two `C-u' prefixes,=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 force continuous clocking by s= tarting the clock when the last clock=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 stopped.=0A=0A=0ABe ca= reful to have a recent git version since this is a new feature, but it had = bugs and=0Athe bugs have been fixed.=0A=0A=0AOther thoughts:=0A=0AYou can c= hange the time from the agenda (never tried) but:=0A=0A[[info:org#Agenda%20= commands][info:org#Agenda commands]]=0A`v c'=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 Show overlappin= g clock entries, clocking gaps, and other clocking=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 problems = in the current agenda range.=A0 You can then visit clocking=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 = lines and fix them manually.=A0 See the variable=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 `org-agenda= -clock-consistency-checks' for information on how to=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 customi= ze the definition of what constituted a clocking problem.=0A=A0=A0=A0=A0 To= return to normal agenda display, press `l' to exit Logbook mode.=0A=0A=0AF= inally you can also use the brute force method:=0Aclock in the new task=A0= =A0 =0A=0Athen run =0A=0AM-x org-resolve-clocks=0A=0A=0Aso that you can "re= start" your current task by, say, 20 minutes=0Athen you can set =0A=0A=0A(d= efcustom org-clock-out-remove-zero-time-clocks t=0A=A0 "Non-nil means remov= e the clock line when the resulting time is zero."=0A=A0 :group 'org-clock= =0A=A0 :type 'boolean)=0A=0AHowever the last clocked-out task (the meeting)= has been clocked out 20 minutes later.=0A=0Acheers,=0AGiovanni=0A