From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mats Kindahl Subject: Setting total effort of a task vs. the daily effort Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:45:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4C075DB6.7030707@oracle.com> Reply-To: mats.kindahl@oracle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41581 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OK59k-0006ss-Tk for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:48:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OK59j-0008PQ-7g for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:48:00 -0400 Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:56004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OK59j-0008Oa-2J for Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:47:59 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o537lqLZ019329 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:47:54 GMT Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o52MjJoH026223 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:47:48 GMT List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, I've just recently started using org-mode (but I've been using Emacs for a very long time) and find it very useful for planning the daily work. Quite often I have tasks that are more than a day, and I want to plan the total effort for the task and still plan for how many hours I want to work on it a specific day. If the task had a natural split, I could easily create different subtasks and set the effort for those, but in many cases, there are tasks that do not have a natural split into subtasks. When planning the week, it is not easy to see how to allocate such a task over the week since whatever day I place it on it will take up two days of effort. Apart from splitting such a task into subtasks, is there a way to both set a total amount of work and spread it out over several days by setting the number of hours for each day? Best wishes, Mats Kindahl -- Mats Kindahl Lead Software Developer MySQL Replication, Oracle