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From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@novell.com>
Subject: Re: Estimated times
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Sebastjan Trepca <trepca <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I was wondering if there is a way to set a time estimate for a task
> and then match it with actual logged time? After you finish it of
> course.
> 
> Maybe something similar as checkbox counters.
> 
>  * TODO learn about emacs [0/2, 0h/20h]
>    - [ ] read emacs manual (10h)
>    - [ ] read  elisp manual (10h)
> 
> First counter counts the finished subtasks, second shows overall
> logged time and the estimate.

You might be able to do something with a column view. You define the effort as a
property and in your Column View you summarize the effort. Might be worth to
have a look at http://orgmode.org/org.html#Column-view

Christian