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[Orgmode] question and use example
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Paul Menair |
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[Orgmode] question and use example |
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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:38:29 -0400 |
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Folks,
I've been struggling with something and thought I'd ask you folks.
I'm an attorney. I use org-mode for various things, because it's convenient,
simple and flexible. And most case management software for lawyers is awful.
Anyway, one of the things I do in org is keep my time.
The ordinary timekeeping function in org is interesting and neat in some ways,
but not useful for my purposes. I need to provide my employer with a set of
timeslips, where each record consists of a date, client name, description, and
time interval in decimal form. Everything that I've tried that attempts to
"help" me do this fails in one way or another. The solution I have is a table
in org that is set up like this:
| date | client | desc | [time]--[time] | H:M | x.x |
Org is perfect for this because it does what no other time and billing solution
I've seen does -- it lets me just record two timestamps in plain text and get
an interval. The only other piece of software I've ever seen that does this
was a calendar program that let you do this in its notes field.
My problem is this. I populate the fifth field with c-- c-u c-y. I would be
nice if it happened automatically, but that's no big deal. However, I've been
going through and manually entering the sixth field, and that does end up being
a hassle.
Calc seems to only work on timestamps and not have any straight way to convert
H:M to decimal. I suppose I could keep my in and out timestamps in separate
fields and figure out a way to have calc work on them, but it seems like there
should be an easier solution.
Any thoughts? In any event, I thought it might be of interest for folks to see
a use case from a non-engineering professional.
Paul
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