From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tommy Kelly Subject: Re: Journal versus clock tables: Opposing requirements? Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:51:59 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87obwogo1c.fsf@rat.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41209) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQZD-0004tn-Vc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:52:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQZ3-0000eW-2e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:52:55 -0500 Received: from cather.verilab.com ([64.20.234.125]:37101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQZ2-0000eF-Hi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:52:44 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f43.google.com (mail-fx0-f43.google.com [209.85.161.43]) by cather.verilab.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75EC9ECC10 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faat9 with SMTP id t9so6802272faa.2 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:52:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87obwogo1c.fsf@rat.lan> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Olaf Dietsche Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Olaf wrote: > Maybe I misunderstand what you want to accomplish, but if you put your > journal into a separate file (e.g. journal.org), ... That's pretty much what I want. But if I do that I then have trouble with getting sensible clock tables. For example, suppose I had: *** Headline about some activity on Project A CLOCK: [from]--[to] => duration notes notes notes *** Headline about some activity on Project B CLOCK: [from]--[to] => duration more notes notes note *** Headline about some other activity on Project A CLOCK: [from]--[to] => duration yet more notes notes Adding those as a chronological journal lets me get a report of chronology, but it won't let me have a clock table with the times for the two "on Project A" activities combined into one. Will it? Of course I could shove the Project A activities under one single higher-level headline, but that than violates the chronology side of things (in the sense that I want to enter things into my journal in chronological order, just as I would in a paper log book). > You can create clock tables and select reported items by tags. So, if > you tag your journal entries, you can create clock tables made up of a > few entries only. OK, that might be what I need then. I thought clock tables grouped things by headings, not by tags. I'll have a look at the manual. thanks, Tommy