<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>this is now pretty much all implemented in the latest version, check out</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html#Effort-estimates">http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html#Effort-estimates</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- Carsten</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div><html>On Dec 30, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Charles Cave (<a href="mailto:charles_cave@optusnet.com.au">charles_cave@optusnet.com.au</a>) wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Sacha Chua has written a very useful article about her use of org-mode<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/">http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">.. complete with blocks of Lisp code<br></blockquote><br>This is a fantastic article, with several great ideas which I would<br>*love* to see integrated into the official tree:<br><br> &nbsp;- Option to automatically change a task's state when clocking into it<br><br> &nbsp;- Standardised way of estimating completion time for tasks<br><br> &nbsp;- Reviewing scheduled "load" - i.e. what percentage of a day is<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;already allocated by scheduling tasks for that day, vs. how much<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;free time there is on that day (this would ideally take<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;appointments into account too)<br><br> &nbsp;- Reviewing accuracy of initial estimates after completion<br><br>This would be getting dangerously close to my nirvana of time<br>management: an as yet hypothetical mind experiment in which my boss<br>gives me a new project, asks me when it can be completed by, and I<br>tell him straight away in confidence that I've committed myself to<br>something entirely attainable, through knowing that I have already<br>accurately scheduled time for all other tasks which need to be<br>completed before then ;-)<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Emacs-orgmode mailing list<br>Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.<br><a href="mailto:Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org">Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org</a><br>http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>