Re: Clocking work time vs. office time

[Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>]

Hello,

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2016-04-29, at 11:21, Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I'm seeking ideas/workflows for a situation where I work partly in
>>> office and partly remotely.  I'd like to be able to generate a report
>>> with information about both my work time and "office time".  I know that
>>> you can't have two things clocked at the same time, so simply clocking
>>> "office time" and (during this office time) clocking e.g. individual
>>> tasks won't work.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> I assume that you use a laptop or some other portable device? In that
>> case you can grep the IP address (which might change when you change
>> workplaces) and timestamps from the log files (or create a script that
>> logs the IP address changes to an ORG file) and then somehow (coughcough)
>> integrate that into your report. 
>
> That's actually an interesting (and not standard) idea.  Even moreso
> because I'm writing a RescueTime-like time-tracking tool for Emacs,
> working (unlike Org's clocking) without manual intervention - recording
> the state of computer (i.e., current idle time, active X window, active
> Emacs buffer name and mode) at regular (or not) intervals and making
> reports.  I did not include any network-related info, but this would be
> easy to add.  Thanks, I'll definitely think about it!
interesting.

I used the IP address approach for some time to track the time I spent
at customers sites. It worked quite well. The only trouble was if we
went to the cafeteria and talked for an hour before I had a chance to
start my laptop :).

Regards
hmw