* Estimated times
@ 2007-10-28 22:10 Sebastjan Trepca
2007-10-29 9:08 ` Christian Egli
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From: Sebastjan Trepca @ 2007-10-28 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi,
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.
Not very pretty, but I would imagine it as something like that. I
really like checkboxes :) It's a really nice way to create mini
subtasks.
Thanks, Sebastjan
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* Re: Estimated times
2007-10-28 22:10 Estimated times Sebastjan Trepca
@ 2007-10-29 9:08 ` Christian Egli
2007-10-29 15:51 ` Adam Spiers
2007-10-29 16:22 ` Vagn Johansen
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From: Christian Egli @ 2007-10-29 9:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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
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* Re: Re: Estimated times
2007-10-29 9:08 ` Christian Egli
@ 2007-10-29 15:51 ` Adam Spiers
2007-10-29 16:22 ` Vagn Johansen
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From: Adam Spiers @ 2007-10-29 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:08AM +0000, Christian Egli wrote:
> 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
I use tags for this at the moment:
#+TAGS: { sub10(1) sub30(3) sub60(6) sub120(2) sub4(4) subday(d) }
:sub10: - estimate 10 minutes or less
:sub30: - estimate 30 minutes or less
:sub60: - estimate 60 minutes or less
:sub120: - estimate 120 minutes or less
:sub4: - estimate 4 hours or less
:subday: - estimate one day or less
Advantages:
- can set very quickly via C-c C-c 1 etc.
- prevents me from trying to be too accurate with my estimates
(IMHO anything more fine-grained is probably unrealistic)
- can be seen from .org file buffer
Disadvantages:
- can't add up total time estimated for multiple TODOs
- can't display in a column
Properties are probably ultimately a cleaner solution. I presume you
could easily bind shortcuts to `org-entry-put' but I haven't tried it
or thought what the best shortcut keymap prefix would be instead of
C-c C-c (this would have the added advantage of freeing up shortcut
keys for tags).
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2007-10-29 9:08 ` Christian Egli
2007-10-29 15:51 ` Adam Spiers
@ 2007-10-29 16:22 ` Vagn Johansen
2007-10-31 21:42 ` Sebastjan Trepca
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From: Vagn Johansen @ 2007-10-29 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Christian Egli <christian.egli@novell.com> writes:
> 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.
[...]
> 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
>
There was a thread about this recently
http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg03950.html
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* Re: Re: Estimated times
2007-10-29 16:22 ` Vagn Johansen
@ 2007-10-31 21:42 ` Sebastjan Trepca
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From: Sebastjan Trepca @ 2007-10-31 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vagn Johansen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
I managed to create a nice column view, except for the "logging work"
part. It uses its own format of date ranges so I cannot just simply
sum it as time estimates.
A new "time range" summary type would come handy ;)
Sebastjan
On 10/29/07, Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Christian Egli <christian.egli@novell.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> [...]
>
> > 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
> >
>
>
> There was a thread about this recently
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg03950.html
>
>
>
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