Re: An Org-based productivity tool

[Roland Everaert <reveatwork@gmail.com>]

Regarding auto-clocking, you should look at what norang did.

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

To motivate people focusing on there work, something like the link below could be
an idea, especially for gamers ;)

https://habitica.com/static/home

Samuel Wales writes:

> auto-clocking might be interesting.
>
> there would be a concept of a dominating clocking entry similar to
> dominating file.  i.e. if where you are is not a clocking entry, go up
> until you find one that is.  if you find none at top level, you create
> a clock entry in the logbook there.
>
> if you switch buffers or move around, you clock out and in where you
> were and are.  every few minutes, you try to clock in where you are,
> or the dominating clocking entry.  this is done with timers.  idle
> time might go to a special clocking entry.
>
> or something like that.  the idea is that you don't have to remember
> to clock in and out.
>
> On 10/10/18, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-10-10, at 18:50, William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10 October 2018, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am making an Org-mode-based tool to help boost my productivity.
>>>> ...
>>>> - is anyone interested in something like this?
>>>
>>> I am---I'd love to see what you come up with.  I'm doing something
>>> similar, but much less fancy, with clock tables and some R:
>>>
>>> https://www.miskatonic.org/2017/11/16/clocktableii/
>>>
>>> I need to do one more post about that to wrap it up.  It's working
>>> well for me, but warnings about not being clocked in to something, and
>>> better understanding of what I'm doing based on headings or tags,
>>> would be useful.
>>
>> Thanks for your kind words!
>>
>> It's not that fancy (yet?), but has one big advantage over clock tables:
>> it updates dynamically (using org-clock-out-hook), so it's fast.  Also,
>> as you could see, it does some simple calculations.
>>
>> And for the record: it's based on properties, not tags - but that is
>> a minor issue.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Marcin Borkowski
>> http://mbork.pl
>>
>>


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