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[Orgmode] Re: time tracking common activities
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Bernt Hansen |
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[Orgmode] Re: time tracking common activities |
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:01:54 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
David Bremner <address@hidden> writes:
> J Aaron Farr wrote:
>
>>I'm using org-mode to track my time on projects and todo items, but
>>I'd also like to start tracking time I spend on things such as my
>>email, reading rss feeds, etc. I'd prefer to continue to use
>>org-mode for that so that all my time tracking is in one place with
>>one system.
>
>>My current thought is to have a `diary.org` file that I keep tasks
>>that don't clearly fit in any of my projects. The file would look
>>something like:
>
>> *** DONE Checking email :email:
>> CLOSED: [2009-02-20 Fri 18:56]
>> :CLOCK:
>> CLOCK: [2009-02-20 Fri 17:56]--[2009-02-20 Fri 18:56] => 1:00
>> :END:
>
> I don't see anything wrong with this, but I also don't see the need
> for a TODO. Do you need to be reminded to check email? You could just
> make a headline, and clock on that. Clocktables (or, maybe,
> clocktable view in agenda mode) could narrow down e.g. time spent
> reading email in one week.
>
> I guess you would still have to think about comfortable ways to find
> the right file/buffer and clock in there.
When I did something similar to this recently I created a tag for
:ONGOING: tasks and used the agenda view to quickly find these tasks for
clocking in.
I just used a single task to clock multiple times and then at the end of
the year create a new one and archive the old one so they don't grow
forever.
-Bernt