Re: Project/time management for Emacs?

Re: Project/time management for Emacs?

[Romain FRANCOISE]

Jens Schmidt writes:

> 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?").

There is a worklog.el out there which seems to do just that, but I
didn't try it myself. Kai's the author, maybe he can tell you more about
it.

The URL for this package apparently is 

ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/worklog.el

but it seems to be an old version, so a search for "worklog.el" in
Google Groups will probably be more successful.

        Romain.

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Re: Project/time management for Emacs?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> 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

Re: Project/time management for Emacs?

[Bernd Wolter]

Jens.Schmidt27@epost.de (Jens Schmidt) 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 don't know about timeclock and worklog but I use Thomas Gehrlein's
timelog.el which gives you the opportunity to look a different
projects with "timelog-summarize-project" and have listed the sum and
the different instances (you can even assign hourly rates). I'm using
it all the time and am very contend with it.

HTH

Bernd