Re: report/summary of what was done for retrospection purposes?

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

[Reordered to remove top-post]

Jevgeni Holodkov <jevgeni.holodkov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>> Jevgeni Holodkov <jevgeni.holodkov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>    Is there functionality available in org-mode to create the
>>> report/summary of what was done on the previous day/week/month/year
>>> (let's say, generate it from the agenda view)? For instance, if I have
>>> tasks:
>>>
>>> * TODO Task1
>>> * DONE Task2
>>>     - State "DONE"       from "STARTED"    [2009-07-21 T 10:59]
>>> * WAITING Task3
>>>     - State "WAITING"    from "DONE"    [2009-07-14 K 16:07]
>>>     - State "DONE"    from "STARTED"    [2009-07-14 K 16:06]
>>>
>>> Then I would like to generate the report on what was done on June with
>>> 1 row  only (which will be "Task2").
>>
>> Not exactly.  If you use CLOSED timestamps then you can view the agenda
>> for the period you want and use l (ell) to show logged items.  You can
>> specify what to include in the view with org-agenda-log-mode-items.
>>
>> To show a week's worth of logged items starting on 10-14 you can do
>> C-c a a - go to the agenda
>> w       - display week view
>> j 10-14 - go to Oct 14th
>> l       - show logged items as per org-agenda-log-mode-items
>>
>> This allows you to create a custom agenda view which only shows CLOSED
>> tags for instance which I think gives you what you want -- or you can
>> look at state changes which will show the 3 entries above.
>>
>> You can export the resulting agenda view to some other format.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Bernt
>>
> Hi Bernt,
>
>    Thanks for your suggestion. However, in this case, if I have been
> working on 'Task1' each day and finished it only on Friday, then I'll
> get 5 rows stating '.... (clocked): xx:xx DONE Task 1'. Is there a
> possibility to reduce the agenda even more by applying custom logic?
> (i.e., remove all non 'DONE' and all duplicate rows, but last)

If you customize the variable org-agenda-log-mode-items you can remove
'clock' form the list of things it displays.  You can override this
variables value for in a custom agenda view to show exactly the detail
you need.

-Bernt