From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer Stengele Subject: Re: Feature that org mode needs most Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:03:39 +0200 Message-ID: <50067BEB.7090901@online.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQAp-0000II-31 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:04:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQAf-00081z-4m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:03:58 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:53277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQAe-00081h-RJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:03:49 -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: Mehul Sanghvi Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Joseph Thomas Am 17.07.2012 23:33, schrieb Mehul Sanghvi: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Joseph Thomas wrote: >> Hello. >> I couldn't believe I hadn't been aware of org mode until a few months ago, >> as someone who's been using emacs for everything for many years. >> >> I use it to journal how all my time is spent in a given work day- for both >> work related tasks and non-work tasks (ex. getting coffee, lunch, >> conversations, etc.). Org mode is the only GTD software package I've seen >> that makes this possible without getting in the way. It just needs one >> small thing that keeps it from being perfect. >> >> Those who use it the same way I do (as a log of how all time was spent in a >> given day), there's no easy way I can see to make quick adjustments to >> clocked time between activities. Every day I will forget to clock to a new >> activity at some point. By the time I remember, time has passed. For >> example, I come back from a meeting and begin to work on a project. 20 >> minutes into it, I clock in. 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. This can be cumbersome, which seems to go >> against the overall idea of org mode. All that is needed to correct it is >> either a new fn and key binding, or a prefix arg to org-clock-in that allows >> you to enter an adjustment (in this example, 20) to subtract from the >> previous clock's out time and current clock's in time. >> >> Seems like it would be a minor thing to add that would make an enormous >> difference for users like me. >> >> Thanks for reading my request! >> >> Regards, >> Joe > > > Joe, > > You can use the S-up and S-down key combinations to adjust the clocks for > the current activity and the previous one. Move over to the hour and > do S-up or S-down, > then do the same with the minutes. The date gets adjusted > automatically if you're > straddling midnight. > > > cheers, > > mehul > > p.s. does that make org-mode perfect now ? :) > > Hi, as a help being in agenda view pressing "v c" will: v c Show overlapping clock entries, clocking gaps, and other clocking problems in the current agenda range. You can then visit clocking lines and fix them manually. See the variable org-agenda-clock-consistency-checks for information on how to customize the definition of what constituted a clocking problem. To return to normal agenda display, press l to exit Logbook mode. Cheers, Rainer