Setting total effort of a task vs. the daily effort

Setting total effort of a task vs. the daily effort

[Mats Kindahl]

Hi all,

I've just recently started using org-mode (but I've been using Emacs
for a very long time) and find it very useful for planning the daily work.

Quite often I have tasks that are more than a day, and I want to plan
the total effort for the task and still plan for how many hours I want
to work on it a specific day.

If the task had a natural split, I could easily create different
subtasks and set the effort for those, but in many cases, there are
tasks that do not have a natural split into subtasks.

When planning the week, it is not easy to see how to allocate such a
task over the week since whatever day I place it on it will take up
two days of effort.

Apart from splitting such a task into subtasks, is there a way to both
set a total amount of work and spread it out over several days by
setting the number of hours for each day?

Best wishes,
Mats Kindahl
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Mats Kindahl
Lead Software Developer
MySQL Replication, Oracle