Re: Task time limit

["Sebastjan Trepca" <trepca@gmail.com>]

I finally got time to try this code :)

Copied into my .emacs file, changed the time to 1 minute, clocked in a
task, waited a minute and nothing happened :)

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks, Sebastjan


On Nov 19, 2007 2:03 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> "Sebastjan Trepca" <trepca@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > For example, "check the feed reader" would be set to 20 minutes. I
> > would clock-in the task, go and check the reader and after 20 mins,
> > alarm would go off, reminding me that I should start doing something
> > else.
>
> Nice idea, I gave it a shot.
>
> I advised `org-clock-in' so that each time I am clocking in a new task,
> a new appointment is triggered.  `my-org-appt-add' can also be called
> interactively.
>
> ;; Make sure you have a sensible value for `appt-message-warning-time'
> (defun my-org-appt-add (&optional n)
>   "Add an appointment for the Org entry at point in N minutes."
>   (interactive)
>   (save-excursion
>     (org-back-to-heading t)
>     (looking-at org-complex-heading-regexp)
>     (let* ((msg (concat (match-string-no-properties 4)
>                         " *GAME OVER*"))
>            (ct-time (decode-time))
>            (appt-min (+ (cadr ct-time) (or n 20)))
>            (appt-time ; define the time for the appointment
>             (progn (setf (cadr ct-time) appt-min) ct-time)))
>       (appt-add (format-time-string
>                  "%H:%M" (apply 'encode-time appt-time)) msg)
>       (if (interactive-p) (message "New appointment for %s" msg)))))
>
> (defadvice org-clock-in (after org-appt-add-after-clock-in activate)
>   "Add an appointment after clocking in a task."
>   (my-org-appt-add))
>
> Maybe another idea is to bind (progn (org-clock-in) (my-org-appt-add))
> to a key in org-agenda-mode-map, since advising `org-clock-in' is a bit
> too much IMO.  Or we could use some kind of filtering to decide whether
> clockin in an entry should trigger a new appointment.
>
> Anyway, that's just a quickstart, let me know if this is useful.
>
> --
> Bastien
>
>
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