Re: orgmode for many continuous tasks?

[Mikhail Skorzhinskii <mskorzhinskiy@eml.cc>]

Oh sorry accidently sent a draft :(

Short story:

1. Try org-clock-budget;
2. Try to use ESTIMATE property and agenda span with more then a day;
3. Try to use clock table mode, which will summarize time in agenda;

The (3) have many caveates, actually, so I prefer doing this
calculations by myself and inserting them in agenda-finallize hook.  I
can share my code snippets if you want.

Mikhail

On 2017-09-25T23:28:45+0300, Mikhail Skorzhinskii wrote:

>Hi, Mycroft,
>
>I've tried to find/hack something similar to what you're describing.
>
>1) Clock budgets:
>
>  https://github.com/Fuco1/org-clock-budget
>
>The tool mostly about comparison your clocked time and clocking
>budget. But may be you find it usefull. I'm personally use this tool
>when I'm planning my week.
>
>2)
>
>Also for planning work for the future week, I'm using ESTIMATE property
>with a bit custom lisp. I.e. my setup is looking like this:
>
>1. Super-agenda with different ca
>
>On 2017-09-25T10:21:51+0300, Mycroft Jones wrote:
>>I'm wondering if org-mode can do this:
>>
>>I have many tasks.  Some are one off.  But many are tasks that will take a
>>period of time, days, weeks, months.  I need to schedule a bit of time every
>>day.  Over time I can complete the tasks by plugging away.  But I have so many.
>>Half hour chunks work for some tasks, 1 or 2 or 3 hour chunks work best for
>>others.
>>
>>1) writing 3 different books
>>2) learning 2 different languages
>>3) 2 different types of exercise exercise
>>4) 3 different ongoing tasks at work
>>5) watching videos that friends send me
>>6) reading books on my night stand
>>7) various one-off tasks
>>8) scheduled items, where I have to do them at a scheduled time.
>>
>>So, for each broad category of task, there are subtasks.  So far, it looks like
>>orgmode is good.  But, what I'd like is to automatically generate scheduling
>>suggestions for the day.  For instance, if I've been putting too much time into
>>languages, then schedule more time for writing the books.  And if I've focused
>>too much on one book, remind me to put time into another book.  I'd like the
>>scheduler to be a sort of time-accounting system that suggests work for the day
>>in a way that balances the tree.
>>
>>Within each branch of the tree, I'd like the branches to be allocated roughly
>>equal time, over a period of weeks and months, on a day to day basis.
>>
>>Is there a simple workflow in orgmode that can do this?  I haven't done elisp
>>for 10 years, but I'm comfortable with it.  Would this be simple to implement?
>>
>>Mycroft
>>
>
>
>--
>Thanks,
>Skorzhinskii Mikhail
>


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Thanks,
Skorzhinskii Mikhail