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Re: [Orgmode] Feature idea: Automatic clocking
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Bastien |
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Re: [Orgmode] Feature idea: Automatic clocking |
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Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:30:21 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Here is another approach to this auto-clocking question.
Maybe what you really want to track is not how much time you spend on a
specific task but rather how you distribute your time over the tasks.
In this case, you don't need to explicitely clock in and out. You can
act as if a clock was always running¹ and then you register any action
you take on your Org file. "Working on this X task" would just be an
action among others like "switching task X from TODO state to NEXT",
"closing task X", "Archiving task X", "Moving task X under Tree T",
etc.
Thus, instead of automating the aggregation of clocked-in tasks, you
consider yourself always clocked in and you automate the logging of
stuff you do (from which you can extract clock information later.)
I guess this idea come closer to what Samuel had in mind when he talked
about "profiling".
¹ Actually, astronomers from this list could tell us that the universe
is such a running clock in itself :)
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Bastien