From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Inanna Underhill <peregrinehill@comcast.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A more generic Effort property?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:16:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1A003C51-11DE-484B-AAEC-2A6D1D4C4916@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od0l6jeu.fsf@mrs-clingwrap.csail.mit.edu>
Hi Inanna,
I am not sure if I understand correctly, but you can have several
summing properties and use them just like the Effort property, but
with just plain numbers, for example.
- Carsten
On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Inanna Underhill wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am really enjoying upgrading from 5.23 to 6.11, especially the new
> summing in the columns-view of the agenda buffer. I'd been trying to
> figure out something like the Effort property behavior on my own, so
> this is a bonus, too. Thank you!
>
> In my own thinking about effort, however, effort is a psychological
> phenomenon. For example, some things that I do only take a short time
> but are very difficult (nagging small children) , while others take a
> long time but are easy (reading a book). I use the property
> DURATION to
> do what you are doing with Effort.
>
> So, obviously, I just changed the default name of the effort
> property to
> DURATION and that solves that.
>
> But here is (finally) why I'm writing. I think the Effort function
> you
> have designed should be more generic - specifically that it should not
> require a HH:MM format. That would significantly increase the
> number of
> ways people could use it. As an expense tracker, for example, or
> with a
> simple integer for physical or psychological strain. Or even memory
> usage!
>
> Ideally, multiple properties could share the Effort functionality, but
> that may be opening a whole new can of worms.
>
> I'm going to try to write an add-on myself, but I figured I'd throw
> it out
> there in case people think it would be a useful change to the core
> program.
>
> Inanna
>
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 15:41 A more generic Effort property? Inanna Underhill
2008-11-12 16:05 ` sergio
2008-11-12 23:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-13 14:29 ` sergio
2008-11-13 14:36 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-12 23:16 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-11-13 1:00 ` Inanna Underhill
2008-11-13 8:26 ` Carsten Dominik
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