John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:48 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could someone fill me in on your process for clocking in things after
>> the fact? I've been trying to get into to clocking, but, especially at
>> home, I don't return to my computer in between every different thing.
>> Instead, I stop at it when I get a pause and try to fill in what I've
>> been doing. So far, this has been something akin to:
>>
>> - create a new sub-headline and call it what I was doing
>> - C-c C-c to tag it
>> - C-c C-x C-i followed by C-c C-x C-o to create a clocked time stamps
>> - Manually edit the times
>> - C-c C-c to update the count
>>
>>
>> This gets quite tedious when adding several things. I have to expand
>> the logbook, and then fiddle with the times.
>> Could there be (or is there already) a function that might act like
>> the date selection screen for clocking? I looked at the completion
>> list for org-clock-* commands and none of them looked promising. I
>> could envision something like:
>>
>> - M-x org-clock-in-at-time
>> - Minibuffer presents date selection, you select date just like for
>> timestamps
>> - Minibuffer requests time in form HH:MM and you can type it in
>>
>> Same type of function for clocking out. This would *vastly* simplify
>> how I end up clocking.
>>
>> I'm absolutely open to suggestions from others on how you deal with
>> this. Perhaps this is an opportunity to learn about how the *experts*
>> access some functionality I'm currently unaware of!
> Just wanted to bump this as it's almost been a month. Even feedback as
> to whether or not this is feasible would be appreciated. If it's not,
> or it is but just won't happen, I'll resolve to keep clocking in,
> immediately clocking out, and then futzing with the times by hand.
Hi John,
I don't have a workflow for this but I just did a little experiment
which may be easier than what you are currently doing.
It's now 1:54PM and I wanted to try to create a few (fake) tasks and
generate clocking data for the following:
- task 1 for 8:00 - 8:30
- task 2 for 8:30 - 8:45
- task 3 for 8:45 - 11:00
- task 4 for 11:00 - 13:00
- task 5 for 13:00 - now (current task)
so I did the following:
1) Stop the clock
2) Create the tasks
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* TODO Experiment with clocking in old data
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:47]
** TODO Old task for 8am - 8:30
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** TODO 8:30-8:45
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** TODO 8:45-11:00
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** TODO 11:00-1PM
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** TODO current task
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
3) Clock in the first task (Old task for 8am - 8:30)
4) Manually move the clock back to 8AM with S-up and S-down on the clock
line CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:52]CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 08:00]
(or just edit it)
5) M-x org-resolve-clocks (I have this bound to M-F11)
6) enter K to keep 30 minutes and stop the clock
7) Go to the next task and clock that in
8) answer Yes to start the clock from the last time
9) M-F11 (M-x org-resolve-clocks) again and enter K to keep 15 minutes
for the 8:30-8:45 task
10) Lather, rinse, and repeat 7-9 for all but the last task
11) Then clock in the last task and continue with whatever you are
doing.
This results in something like this
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* DONE Experiment with clocking in old data
CLOSED: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:51]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-04-09 Sat 13:51]
:END:
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:47]
[[gnus:nntp%2Bnews.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.orgmode][gnus:nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.orgmode]]
** DONE Old task for 8am - 8:30
CLOSED: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 08:00]--[2011-04-09 Sat 08:30] => 0:30
:END:
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** DONE 8:30-8:45
CLOSED: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 08:30]--[2011-04-09 Sat 08:45] => 0:15
:END:
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** DONE 8:45-11:00
CLOSED: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 08:45]--[2011-04-09 Sat 11:00] => 2:15
:END:
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** DONE 11:00-1PM
CLOSED: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 11:00]--[2011-04-09 Sat 13:00] => 2:00
:END:
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
** DONE current task
CLOSED: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
:LOGBOOK:
- State "DONE" from "STARTED" [2011-04-09 Sat 13:50]
CLOCK: [2011-04-09 Sat 13:00]--[2011-04-09 Sat 13:50] => 0:50
:END:
[2011-04-09 Sat 13:48]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Does that help?
Regards,
Bernt
