From: Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org>
To: Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to track time spent on a project
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:16:46 -0400 [thread overview]
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Take a look at this: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-7I use this
exact setup and it works perfectly
*Greg Newman*
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to track the time that I'll spend on a new project. For this
> I'm planning to use org-mode's clocking feature, so far my first tests
> (I've never used org-agenda before) showed me that I can do this
> easily from the agenda view, as long as I have a DATE: property in my
> node. And that's a bit of a problem because I don't really have a
> scheduled date when I'm going to work on a part of this project.
> Is there a way in org-mode to just clock the time and have the agenda
> view show me on the views for every day (or time interval) just the
> clocked times for every tree item that fall into this time
> interval/range?
> And how can I start clocking items that do not show up in the agenda
> view? I'm not sure if it's understandable what I want, so I here's a
> small example org-file and a description of what I want to see and how
> I want to work on it:
> Basic layout of the org-file:
> * Part 1
> :CLOCK:
> CLOCK: [2009-07-20 Mon 12:40]--[2009-07-20 Mon 14:43] => 2:03
> CLOCK: [2009-07-23 Thu 22:28]--[2009-07-23 Thu 22:48] => 0:20
> :END:
> * Part 2
> :CLOCK:
> CLOCK: [2009-07-24 Fri 09:45]--[2009-07-24 Fri 11:15] => 1:30
> :END:
>
> What I want:
> (Re-)start at any time the clocking of one of either Part 1 or Part 2
> whenever I'm working on it and get summaries of the total working
> times on a day, week, or whatever time interval I want and the total
> working time I've spent on the project or single parts on it.
>
>
> I assume that a lot of you are using org-mode exactly for this purpose
> and probably you know how to do it better, so if you have any
> suggestions how I could do it better please tell me :-)
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geralt.
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 10:40 How to track time spent on a project Geralt
2009-07-24 12:16 ` Greg Newman [this message]
2009-07-24 12:27 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-07-24 17:19 ` Geralt
2009-07-24 19:14 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-07-27 10:42 ` Geralt
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