Re: ColumnView and DateFormat

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ColumnView and DateFormat
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 07:57:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D7EF8464-E29A-4738-9020-2B997D96288D@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49079dd3.0c07560a.13a4.ffff99a8@mx.google.com>

Hi Memnon,

On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Memnon Anon wrote:

> Hi!
>
> First things first:
> Org mode is great!
> Org is the reason I started using emacs a few months ago.
> Thanks for this fine software.
>
> I am using the column view very often and added several columns to my
> org-file using this line
>
> ,----
> | #+COLUMNS: %35ITEM %4TODO %1PRIORITY %19SCHEDULED %10TAGS  
> %5ESTIMATE{:}
> |  %5CLOCKSUM
> `----
>
> I am still experimenting quite a bit and my question is:
>
> Is there a simple way to cut the year out of the scheduled column?
> Right now, it displays e.g. like this: 2008-10-10 Mi 13:15.
> Can this be cut down to something like      10-10 Mi 13:15 ?
> I do not plan years ahead ;)

Please check this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/7430

- Carsten

>
>
> And another question related to the Agenda View.
>
> I dislike scheduling everything. I have got some Items I work on  
> whenever I
> need a break. These Items do not get a real timestamp because I can  
> not say
> before when I will work on them. But, if I do, I often spend some  
> hours on
> them. Of course, I still clock them.
> Orgmode provides this nice timeline view, but this only displays  
> tasks with
> time-stamped items. Using column view, it provides even more useful
> information.
> Is there a way to have a timeline that focuses not on time-stamped  
> items but on
> the clocked time? Thus showing me when and how long I actually  
> worked on items
> and not when I planned to do so?
> Like
> Wednesday  22 October 2008
>  Clocked 12:00-16:00: TODO Work on  
> Thesis                     :UNI:LIBRARY:
>  Clocked 16:15-18:00:      Read LOTR (again;)                 :HOME:
>  Clocked 18:30-20:00  DONE Call  
> Parents                       :PHONE:HOME:
>  Simchat Torah
>
>
> If I missed some crucial information in the org manual, a simple  
> *RTFM*
> is enough and sorry for the noise.
> If anyone out there has a simple solution or a different "workflow"  
> to adopt
> and achieve this, your suggestion would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks and have a nice day ;)
>
>
>
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