Re: Release 6.02

[Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com>]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> The special property Effort can be used for effort estimates
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>
>     If you want to plan your work in a very detailed way, or if
>     you need to produce offers with quotations of the estimated
>     work effort, you may want to assign effort estimates to
>     entries.  If you are also clocking your work, you may later
>     want to compare the planned effort with the actual working
>     time.  Effort estimates can now be stored in a special
>     property `Effort', displayed side-to-side with clock sums,
>     and also be summed over a day, in order to show the planned
>     work load of a day.  See the manual for more details.

Carsten, I'm already using a property called "Estimate" that works
great, especially in column view.  What extra functionally would I get
by switching to this Effort property, or changing the
org-effort-property to work with my Estimate property?

Thanks.

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