Re: tabular logging of values in habits and other repeating tasks

[Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org>]

Darlan —

Thank you for the additional hand-holding. This will be very useful to me. Much obliged!

— Michael


On Jul 5,2010, at 2:06 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote:

> What I though is something like the task below
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * TODO Running
>  :PROPERTIES:
>  :STYLE:    habit
>  :END:
> 
>  | Date             | Place            | Distance |
>  |------------------+------------------+----------|
>  | [2010-07-03 Sáb] | Park Something   | 6km      |
>  | [2010-07-05 Seg] | Some other place | 5km      |
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> You then create a template that adds a line after the hline in the
> table. That way the most recent completed task would be in the top.
> 
> Whenever you do the task you call org-capture with the template to add a
> new line to the table and then mark the task as done. It is true that
> adding the line and marking the task as done are not a "single thing", but
> with org-capture you can add a line to the table from any buffer without
> needing to go until the task heading and the table keeps everything more
> organized.
> 
> Also, you can give this table a name and do whatever you want with it using
> org babel super powers. You could easily calculate the mean distance that
> you run, the variance, maybe even plot the distances that you run in each
> day (there is probably a way to use the inactive timestamps as values for
> the x axis). This would not be possible if you store the information as
> notes in the task.