Re: Project/time management for Emacs?

[John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>]

>>>>> On Tue Dec 10, Jens writes:

> Hi.  I am looking for a project and time reporting system for
> Emacs.  Basically something in the spirit of timeclock.el, but with
> some more functionality, in particular wrt. reporting ("How much
> time did I spend in the last month on that particular project?").
> It should be simple to use and configure: I just need to check into
> a project, check out of it, and do reporting on the long-term
> results. In particluar, I do not need any planning type of
> functionality.

> I am not sure to what extent timeclock.el has evolved since Emacs
> 21.1, probably it already has the functionality mentioned above ...

> What's your opinion on that?  What would you recommend?

I would recommend using timeclock.el to collect the data you want,
and then writing another utility to make use of it for reporting
purposes.

For example, I have personally written several Perl/Python scripts
to make use of the timeclock.el data that I've gathered over the
years (now 4 years worth).

There is no need for a "do it all" program.  Mixing and matching is
the best way to avoid recoding.  timeclock.el has a simple
interface, and a VERY simple data format.

John