From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geralt Subject: How to track time spent on a project Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:40:22 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUICV-0003Xt-9g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:40:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUICQ-0003V9-5z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:40:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36611 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUICP-0003Us-Rh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:40:25 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com ([209.85.219.228]:44165) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUICO-0000c0-Ef for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:40:24 -0400 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so693487ewy.42 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:40:22 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, I want to track the time that I'll spend on a new project. For this I'm planning to use org-mode's clocking feature, so far my first tests (I've never used org-agenda before) showed me that I can do this easily from the agenda view, as long as I have a DATE: property in my node. And that's a bit of a problem because I don't really have a scheduled date when I'm going to work on a part of this project. Is there a way in org-mode to just clock the time and have the agenda view show me on the views for every day (or time interval) just the clocked times for every tree item that fall into this time interval/range? And how can I start clocking items that do not show up in the agenda view? I'm not sure if it's understandable what I want, so I here's a small example org-file and a description of what I want to see and how I want to work on it: Basic layout of the org-file: * Part 1 :CLOCK: CLOCK: [2009-07-20 Mon 12:40]--[2009-07-20 Mon 14:43] => 2:03 CLOCK: [2009-07-23 Thu 22:28]--[2009-07-23 Thu 22:48] => 0:20 :END: * Part 2 :CLOCK: CLOCK: [2009-07-24 Fri 09:45]--[2009-07-24 Fri 11:15] => 1:30 :END: What I want: (Re-)start at any time the clocking of one of either Part 1 or Part 2 whenever I'm working on it and get summaries of the total working times on a day, week, or whatever time interval I want and the total working time I've spent on the project or single parts on it. I assume that a lot of you are using org-mode exactly for this purpose and probably you know how to do it better, so if you have any suggestions how I could do it better please tell me :-) Thanks, Geralt.