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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:15:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D045A9B-BCE0-4546-9F67-E98572BEC3B9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071230225928.GI20947@atlantic.linksys.moosehall>


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Hi Adam,

this is now pretty much all implemented in the latest version, check out

http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html#Effort-estimates

- Carsten

On Dec 30, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Charles Cave (charles_cave@optusnet.com.au) wrote:
>> Sacha Chua has written a very useful article about her use of org- 
>> mode
>>
>> http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/
>>
>> .. complete with blocks of Lisp code
>
> This is a fantastic article, with several great ideas which I would
> *love* to see integrated into the official tree:
>
>  - Option to automatically change a task's state when clocking into it
>
>  - Standardised way of estimating completion time for tasks
>
>  - Reviewing scheduled "load" - i.e. what percentage of a day is
>    already allocated by scheduling tasks for that day, vs. how much
>    free time there is on that day (this would ideally take
>    appointments into account too)
>
>  - Reviewing accuracy of initial estimates after completion
>
> This would be getting dangerously close to my nirvana of time
> management: an as yet hypothetical mind experiment in which my boss
> gives me a new project, asks me when it can be completed by, and I
> tell him straight away in confidence that I've committed myself to
> something entirely attainable, through knowing that I have already
> accurately scheduled time for all other tasks which need to be
> completed before then ;-)
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-23 22:42 A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua Charles Cave
2007-12-30 22:59 ` Adam Spiers
2008-04-24  4:15   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-04-29 17:15     ` Adam Spiers

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