Re: A mix of habits and effort estimates?

[Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:

> As I mentioned (though only in the subject), yes.  This is close, but
> my point is not "I want to do this at least once each three days" or
> something like this, but rather "I want to spend at least 180 minutes
> every week on this" - regardless of days.  Of course, I could do it
> with the habits module (and if there's no other solution, I will do it
> like this), but what I'd like to have is actually a mixture of habits
> and effort estimates/clocking.

Maybe a dedicated subtree like this:

------------------------------------------------------------
* Learn Tasks							      :learn:
  :PROPERTIES:
  :COLUMNS: %10ITEM %16SCHEDULED %5Effort{+} %5CLOCKSUM{+} 
  :END:
** Learn Italian
*** W11 [2013-03-17 So]
    DEADLINE: <2013-03-17 So>
    :PROPERTIES:
    :Effort:   3:00
    :END:
**** STRT Task 1
     SCHEDULED: <2013-03-11 Mo>
    :LOGBOOK:
    CLOCK: [2013-03-16 Sa 13:12]--[2013-03-16 Sa 14:50] =>  1:38
    CLOCK: [2013-03-13 Mi 13:12]--[2013-03-13 Mi 14:12] =>  1:00
    - State "STRT"       from "TODO"       [2013-03-17 So 13:11]
    CLOCK: [2013-03-12 Di 13:11]--[2013-03-12 Di 13:30] =>  0:19
    :END:
** Learn Elisp
*** W11 [2013-03-17 So]
    DEADLINE: <2013-03-17 So>
    :PROPERTIES:
    :Effort:   3:00
    :END:
**** STRT Task 2
     SCHEDULED: <2013-03-14 Do>
    :LOGBOOK:
    - State "STRT"       from "TODO"       [2013-03-17 So 13:21]
    CLOCK: [2013-03-16 Sa 13:12]--[2013-03-16 Sa 14:50] =>  1:38
    CLOCK: [2013-03-13 Mi 13:12]--[2013-03-13 Mi 14:12] =>  1:00
    - State "STRT"       from "TODO"       [2013-03-17 So 13:11]
    CLOCK: [2013-03-12 Di 13:11]--[2013-03-12 Di 13:30] =>  0:19
    :END:
------------------------------------------------------------

What it does:
- We have a tree `Learn Tasks' with tag `learn' (you use inheritance,
  don't you?), plus a dedicated column view for it.
- Each subtask of that is a project like `Learn Italian'
- Each project has subtrees that represent your weekly units.
  You can deadline them to sunday (with a special warning time if
  wanted) so they will come up eventually in your agenda.
  On this level, you can also set up your weekly time budget as 
  an effort.
- You can either clock the weekly units themselves or create 
  subtasks which represent real actions like `learn about defun'
  which you can schedule (and reschedule) as you like e.g. each
  morning.

At the end of the week, you go to your `Learn Tasks' Tree, expand it 
as much as you want to and do a `C-c C-x C-c' to get an overview.
If you get rid of the `W11' part in the headlines of weekly units, you
can simply org-clone-subtree-with-timeshift the subtree for next week as
is. 

hth
Memnon