From: Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display missing/overlapping clock ranges
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:26:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aaftz1ar.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878vvdj1y6.fsf@norang.ca
Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
>
> Hi Rainer and Paul,
>
> Locating gaps would be useful. I've been meaning to investigate this
> but haven't spent any time on it yet. With my current clocking setup
> I've found I get very few holes. Checking the times is a task I do
> manually just before billing for my time. I currently just use a visual
> scan of the daily agenda(s) including clocking lines displayed ensuring
> that the start and end times match over the clocking period.
>
> It should be possible to automate the check. How should a filtered
> agenda be handled? I expect you'd want to see the gaps for the entries
> that are filtered away otherwise it's only really meaningful when you
> look at the entire clocking data.
>
> The major problem I used to have was clocks that would be opened and
> never closed. These were bad because they count as 0 minutes and
> without fixing those entries I don't bill for that time. Since the
> invention of M-x org-resolve-clocks (which runs everytime I clock in) I
> now find these open clocks quickly and don't need to reconstruct the
> data a week later. I haven't had this problem in a long time.
>
> Maybe something like the following mock up?
>
> Day-agenda (W15):
> Wednesday 13 April 2011
> todo: 7:09- 7:11 Clocked: (0:02) Organization :PERSONAL::
> 7:11- 8:00 - Gap -> (0:49)
> org: 8:00- 8:12 Clocked: (0:12) DONE Try to fix this bug :ORG:WORK:tuning::
> todo: 8:12- 8:26 Clocked: (0:14) Organization :PERSONAL::
> diary: 8:26- 9:06 Clocked: (0:40) Breakfast
> todo: 9:06- 9:30 Clocked: (0:24) Task A :PERSONAL::
> 9:30-10:58 - Gap -> (1:28)
> 10:00...... ----------------
> todo: 10:58-11:11 Clocked: (0:13) Organization :PERSONAL::
> vvv ------ Overlap ------ vvv
> todo: 11:11-11:12 Clocked: (0:01) Read Mail and News :PERSONAL::
> todo: 11:10-11:14 Clocked: (0:01) Organization :PERSONAL::
> ^^^ ------ Overlap ------ ^^^
> todo: 11:14-11:15 Clocked: (0:01) Read Mail and News :PERSONAL::
> todo: 11:15-11:16 Clocked: (0:01) Organization :PERSONAL::
> 12:00...... ----------------
> 14:00...... ----------------
> 16:00...... ----------------
> 11:16-16:33 - Gap -> (5:17)
> todo: 16:33...... Clocked: (-) Read Mail and News :PERSONAL::
> 16:43...... now - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 18:00...... ----------------
> 20:00...... ----------------
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
Bernt, that's exactly how I'd envisaged the gap identification, and the
overlap highlighting looks great.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-14 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-13 15:44 Display missing/overlapping clock ranges Rainer Stengele
2011-04-13 16:28 ` Paul Mead
2011-04-13 21:06 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-04-14 8:26 ` Paul Mead [this message]
2011-04-14 9:06 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-04-24 15:30 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-24 21:48 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-04-24 22:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-27 11:53 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-05-03 7:05 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-04-24 23:09 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-04-27 12:43 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-04-19 12:28 ` Rainer Stengele
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