ColumnView and DateFormat

ColumnView and DateFormat

[Memnon Anon]

Hi!

First things first: 
Org mode is great! 
Org is the reason I started using emacs a few months ago. 
Thanks for this fine software.

I am using the column view very often and added several columns to my
org-file using this line

,----
| #+COLUMNS: %35ITEM %4TODO %1PRIORITY %19SCHEDULED %10TAGS %5ESTIMATE{:}
|  %5CLOCKSUM
`----

I am still experimenting quite a bit and my question is:

Is there a simple way to cut the year out of the scheduled column?
Right now, it displays e.g. like this: 2008-10-10 Mi 13:15.
Can this be cut down to something like      10-10 Mi 13:15 ?
I do not plan years ahead ;)

And another question related to the Agenda View.

I dislike scheduling everything. I have got some Items I work on whenever I
need a break. These Items do not get a real timestamp because I can not say
before when I will work on them. But, if I do, I often spend some hours on
them. Of course, I still clock them.
Orgmode provides this nice timeline view, but this only displays tasks with
time-stamped items. Using column view, it provides even more useful
information. 
Is there a way to have a timeline that focuses not on time-stamped items but on
the clocked time? Thus showing me when and how long I actually worked on items
and not when I planned to do so?
Like 
Wednesday  22 October 2008
  Clocked 12:00-16:00: TODO Work on Thesis                     :UNI:LIBRARY:
  Clocked 16:15-18:00:      Read LOTR (again;)                 :HOME:
  Clocked 18:30-20:00  DONE Call Parents                       :PHONE:HOME:
  Simchat Torah


If I missed some crucial information in the org manual, a simple *RTFM*
is enough and sorry for the noise.
If anyone out there has a simple solution or a different "workflow" to adopt
and achieve this, your suggestion would be very much appreciated.

Thanks and have a nice day ;)

Re: ColumnView and DateFormat

[Bernt Hansen]

Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:

> And another question related to the Agenda View.
>
> I dislike scheduling everything. I have got some Items I work on whenever I
> need a break. These Items do not get a real timestamp because I can not say
> before when I will work on them. But, if I do, I often spend some hours on
> them. Of course, I still clock them.

That sounds like a great use of the a tag (like TODAY) so you can create
a list of tasks with that tag and pick what to work on from that.

> Orgmode provides this nice timeline view, but this only displays tasks
> with time-stamped items. Using column view, it provides even more
> useful information.  Is there a way to have a timeline that focuses
> not on time-stamped items but on the clocked time? Thus showing me
> when and how long I actually worked on items and not when I planned to
> do so?  Like Wednesday 22 October 2008 Clocked 12:00-16:00: TODO Work
> on Thesis :UNI:LIBRARY: Clocked 16:15-18:00: Read LOTR (again;) :HOME:
> Clocked 18:30-20:00 DONE Call Parents :PHONE:HOME: Simchat Torah
>
>
> If I missed some crucial information in the org manual, a simple *RTFM*
> is enough and sorry for the noise.
> If anyone out there has a simple solution or a different "workflow" to adopt
> and achieve this, your suggestion would be very much appreciated.

You can use 'l' in the agenda view to see what, when, and how long
things were clocked for.  It doesn't summarize totals of the clocked
time - I use clock reports for that.

-Bernt

Re: ColumnView and DateFormat

[Memnon Anon]

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:
>> Orgmode provides this nice timeline view, but this only displays tasks
>> with time-stamped items. Using column view, it provides even more
>> useful information.  Is there a way to have a timeline that focuses
>> not on time-stamped items but on the clocked time? Thus showing me
>> when and how long I actually worked on items and not when I planned to
>> do so?  Like Wednesday 22 October 2008 Clocked 12:00-16:00: TODO Work
>> on Thesis :UNI:LIBRARY: Clocked 16:15-18:00: Read LOTR (again;) :HOME:
>> Clocked 18:30-20:00 DONE Call Parents :PHONE:HOME: Simchat Torah
>
> You can use 'l' in the agenda view to see what, when, and how long
> things were clocked for.  It doesn't summarize totals of the clocked
> time - I use clock reports for that.

Great, thank you very much!
Exactly what I needed.

Re: ColumnView and DateFormat

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Memnon,

On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Memnon Anon wrote:

> Hi!
>
> First things first:
> Org mode is great!
> Org is the reason I started using emacs a few months ago.
> Thanks for this fine software.
>
> I am using the column view very often and added several columns to my
> org-file using this line
>
> ,----
> | #+COLUMNS: %35ITEM %4TODO %1PRIORITY %19SCHEDULED %10TAGS  
> %5ESTIMATE{:}
> |  %5CLOCKSUM
> `----
>
> I am still experimenting quite a bit and my question is:
>
> Is there a simple way to cut the year out of the scheduled column?
> Right now, it displays e.g. like this: 2008-10-10 Mi 13:15.
> Can this be cut down to something like      10-10 Mi 13:15 ?
> I do not plan years ahead ;)


Please check this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/7430


- Carsten

>
>
> And another question related to the Agenda View.
>
> I dislike scheduling everything. I have got some Items I work on  
> whenever I
> need a break. These Items do not get a real timestamp because I can  
> not say
> before when I will work on them. But, if I do, I often spend some  
> hours on
> them. Of course, I still clock them.
> Orgmode provides this nice timeline view, but this only displays  
> tasks with
> time-stamped items. Using column view, it provides even more useful
> information.
> Is there a way to have a timeline that focuses not on time-stamped  
> items but on
> the clocked time? Thus showing me when and how long I actually  
> worked on items
> and not when I planned to do so?
> Like
> Wednesday  22 October 2008
>  Clocked 12:00-16:00: TODO Work on  
> Thesis                     :UNI:LIBRARY:
>  Clocked 16:15-18:00:      Read LOTR (again;)                 :HOME:
>  Clocked 18:30-20:00  DONE Call  
> Parents                       :PHONE:HOME:
>  Simchat Torah
>
>
> If I missed some crucial information in the org manual, a simple  
> *RTFM*
> is enough and sorry for the noise.
> If anyone out there has a simple solution or a different "workflow"  
> to adopt
> and achieve this, your suggestion would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks and have a nice day ;)
>
>
>
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