From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Bremner Subject: Re: time tracking common activities Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:35:00 -0400 Message-ID: <87skm9p9qj.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca> References: Reply-To: David Bremner Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUax-0002Zu-E0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:35:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUav-0002ZQ-M6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:35:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60342 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUav-0002ZG-CS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:35:05 -0500 Received: from pivot.cs.unb.ca ([131.202.240.57]:55397) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LaUau-00048A-EZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:35:04 -0500 Received: from bremner by pivot.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LaUas-0005FU-Re for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:35:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: J Aaron Farr Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org J Aaron Farr wrote: >I'm using org-mode to track my time on projects and todo items, but >I'd also like to start tracking time I spend on things such as my >email, reading rss feeds, etc. I'd prefer to continue to use >org-mode for that so that all my time tracking is in one place with >one system. >My current thought is to have a `diary.org` file that I keep tasks >that don't clearly fit in any of my projects. The file would look >something like: > *** DONE Checking email :email: > CLOSED: [2009-02-20 Fri 18:56] > :CLOCK: > CLOCK: [2009-02-20 Fri 17:56]--[2009-02-20 Fri 18:56] => 1:00 > :END: I don't see anything wrong with this, but I also don't see the need for a TODO. Do you need to be reminded to check email? You could just make a headline, and clock on that. Clocktables (or, maybe, clocktable view in agenda mode) could narrow down e.g. time spent reading email in one week. I guess you would still have to think about comfortable ways to find the right file/buffer and clock in there. David