From: Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>
To: PT <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Automatic clocking
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:30:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a7j17aa.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090821T202641-395@post.gmane.org> (PT's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:35:27 +0000 (UTC)")
Here is another approach to this auto-clocking question.
Maybe what you really want to track is not how much time you spend on a
specific task but rather how you distribute your time over the tasks.
In this case, you don't need to explicitely clock in and out. You can
act as if a clock was always running¹ and then you register any action
you take on your Org file. "Working on this X task" would just be an
action among others like "switching task X from TODO state to NEXT",
"closing task X", "Archiving task X", "Moving task X under Tree T",
etc.
Thus, instead of automating the aggregation of clocked-in tasks, you
consider yourself always clocked in and you automate the logging of
stuff you do (from which you can extract clock information later.)
I guess this idea come closer to what Samuel had in mind when he talked
about "profiling".
¹ Actually, astronomers from this list could tell us that the universe
is such a running clock in itself :)
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-23 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 18:35 Feature idea: Automatic clocking PT
2009-08-21 19:26 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-08-23 10:38 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-21 23:15 ` Samuel Wales
2009-08-23 4:30 ` Bastien [this message]
[not found] <DICKENSGQnnJOxa3bb20000006e@dickens.campus.up.edu>
2009-08-22 16:18 ` Nuxoll, Andrew
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