Re: A mix of habits and effort estimates?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia 2013-03-16, o godz. 22:59:18
"Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> napisał(a):

> Hi Marcin,
> 
> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> > Bastien <bzg@altern.org> napisał(a):
> >> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Is such a thing possible in Org-mode?
> >> 
> >> Did you check (info "(Org)Tracking your habits") ?
> >
> > As I mentioned (though only in the subject), yes. This is close,
> > but my point is not "I want to do this at least once each three
> > days" or something like this, but rather "I want to spend at least
> > 180 minutes every week on this" - regardless of days. Of course, I
> > could do it with the habits module (and if there's no other
> > solution, I will do it like this), but what I'd like to have is
> > actually a mixture of habits and effort estimates/clocking.
> 
> No problem for that.
> 
> - For the sake of facility, give a unique tag to your "educational"
> task
> 
> - Clock to your task each time you work on it
> 
> - Whenever you want to check whether you did work enough or not,
> launch the agenda view for the current week (`v w' in case you say
> the current day by default)
> 
> - Ask for the display of the clock report (`C-u R')
> 
> - Filter on your educational task

Thanks, that is brilliant!  It is /almost/ what I was looking for.
(One thing that is missing might be fancy coloring, say red for things
I devoted too little time to etc.  I guess this might be actually
implemented using properties and some hooks - I'll try to look into it
some day.)  Now I only need to automate it (which should be easy with
custom agenda views, I guess.)  Thanks!

> Have fun!
> 
> Best regards,
>   Seb

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Adam Mickiewicz University