Re: Format of Effort estimates should be mentioned in its Info node

[Kisaragi Hiu <mail@kisaragi-hiu.com>]

It didn't work for me because I gave it "10m" which actually means 10 months, I've realized.

Still, Durations as defined by org-duration.el should be described in the manual like how Timestamps are.

2020年1月4日 11:55 差出し人： kyle@kyleam.com:

> Kisaragi Hiu <mail@kisaragi-hiu.com> writes:
>
>> Currently, the Info node about effort estimates does not mention what
>> format should it be written in. This causes confusion, as a user might
>> assume that it's the same format as schedulers (10m, 6h, etc.) like I
>> did.
>>
>> Simply mentioning "Effort estimates need to have the format H:MM"
>>
>
> I don't personally use effort estimates, but quickly poking around I see
> some indication that estimates should work fine with things like 10min
> rather than 0:10.  In particular org-set-effort has a bit that looks
> like this:
>
> (org-refresh-property '((effort . identity)
> (effort-minutes . org-duration-to-minutes))
> value)
>
> The presence of org-duration-to-minutes hints to some sort of
> normalization:
>
> (org-duration-to-minutes "10min") ; => 10.0
> (org-duration-to-minutes "0:10")  ; => 10.0
>
> And it looks like org-agenda-compare-effort uses the effort-minutes text
> property.  That's presumably why, when I view the entries below in the
> agenda, org-agenda-filter-by-effort (bound to "_") treats them the same:
>
> * TODO a
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Effort:  10min
> :END:
>
> * TODO b
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Effort:   0:10
> :END:
>
> But that's just one use of effort values, and it sounds like you've hit
> into cases where the 10min form didn't work as expected.  Could you
> provide more details?
>
>> (copied from the docstring or org-effort-property, the only*
>> description of the format I could find) in the Info node would be
>> enough.
>>
>
> Given the above, it seems like org-effort-property's docstring is at
> least somewhat inaccurate.
>