Re: Showing remaining time in agenda mode

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been using Org-Mode with great success over the last year (or
> so). There is a number of items that I need to handle, and I am
> reading through the code to try to figure out how to do the various
> items. However, recently I switched to using 7.7, which disabled a
> feature I use (but it seems to just be a matter of setting it up
> again) but also seem to have a lot of additions that I need.
>
> Beginning of each week, I plan the coming week using the agenda mode
> to sort out tasks over the week. To do this efficiently, I have been
> looking at Effort for each task and the summary for the day, and when
> the default column view for the agenda showed Effort and Clock, this
> worked quite well if you manage to complete the tasks during a week.
> However, quite often I run across tasks that I cannot easily split
> into smaller tasks and which take more than a week to complete (even
> though the tasks themselves might be small, I can just spend a few
> hours each week on them), which forces me to make the math in the head
> to distribute the right amount for each day.
>
> Now, the default column view changed with 7.7, so I have no idea on
> how to set up the agenda column view to show the following:
>
>     * Each "task line" should show Item, Effort, Clock, and Clock - Effort
>     * Each "day line" should show the summary of (at least) the Effort
>       and the Clock - Effort
>
> Does anybody know how to set this up, or do I need to go digging the code?
>
> Best wishes,
> Mats Kindahl

Hi Mats,

Try customizing org-columns-default-format.

Regards,
Bernt