Re: Clocking work time vs. office time

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2016-04-29, at 14:31, Peter Neilson <neilson@windstream.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:08:38 -0400, Loris Bennett  
> <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> On Friday, 29 Apr 2016 at 09:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>>> However, this does not help with my main issue: tracking /time in
>>>> office/.  Not /time in office working/, mind you.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to have a report like this (I mean information, not
>>>> formatting):
>>>>
>>>> * Office time: 2:00
>>>> ** Task 1/Project A: 0:30
>>>> ** Task 2/Project B: 0:45
>>>>
>>>> * Home time:
>>>> ** Task 1/Project A: 1:15
>>>> ** Task 2/Project B: 0:30
>>>>
>>>> So not only time spent on actual work on various tasks/projects, but
>>>> also time /spent physically in the office/.
>>>
>>> I would suggest that the office time simply be the sum of the times of
>>> all headlines within that sub-tree?  If you need something to mop up
>>> times which are not allocated to a specific task within the office
>>> hierarchy, create a sub-headline called "misc" or some such?
>>>
>>> Or am I missing something more fundamental?
>>
>> For me the problem would be just checking in and out of "misc".  If I
>> forget once, then my /time in the office/ would be incorrect.
>>
>> Personally, I need to keep track of /time in the office/ for my
>> employer.  Tracking time actually spent doing tasks planned with Org
>> would be nice for me personally, but as I can't currently have two
>> clocks running, I don't do this.
>
> Have not tested this, but what about running two separate sessions of  
> emacs? It would certainly work if using two separate machines or two  
> separate logins on one machine. Should be able to ssh or ctrl-alt-F1 to a  
> different identity. Merge the two reports into one later with easy custom  
> code.

Thanks for the input, but I consider this to be a Very Bad Idea™.
I would be constantly annoyed by not shared histories, open buffers etc.
YMMV, of course.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University