Hello Michael, I did something like this a while ago but there was not much interest at the time and I don't use it anymore:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/61459/focus=61555 It would probably need updating but I hope it is useful to you. Myles Michael Gummelt writes: > Hi, > > I set effort estimates on a list of subtasks. I can sum those estimates as > described here: http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html > > What I'd like to do is see the remaining effort estimate time in the > supertask. For example, if I have a supertask with 10 subtasks, and I mark > 3 of them complete, I'd like to see the sum of the 7 incomplete tasks. The > link above shows how you can view a CLOCKSUM, but that is a different value. > > Knowing how long is remaining on a supertask seems to be a fundamental > feature for project management. Is there any solution in org mode? > > Thanks, > Michael Gummelt