Regarding auto-clocking, you should look at what norang did. http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
To motivate people focusing on there work, something like the link below could be an idea, especially for gamers ;) https://habitica.com/static/home Samuel Wales writes: > auto-clocking might be interesting. > > there would be a concept of a dominating clocking entry similar to > dominating file. i.e. if where you are is not a clocking entry, go up > until you find one that is. if you find none at top level, you create > a clock entry in the logbook there. > > if you switch buffers or move around, you clock out and in where you > were and are. every few minutes, you try to clock in where you are, > or the dominating clocking entry. this is done with timers. idle > time might go to a special clocking entry. > > or something like that. the idea is that you don't have to remember > to clock in and out. > > On 10/10/18, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> wrote: >> >> On 2018-10-10, at 18:50, William Denton <w...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> On 10 October 2018, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>> >>>> I am making an Org-mode-based tool to help boost my productivity. >>>> ... >>>> - is anyone interested in something like this? >>> >>> I am---I'd love to see what you come up with. I'm doing something >>> similar, but much less fancy, with clock tables and some R: >>> >>> https://www.miskatonic.org/2017/11/16/clocktableii/ >>> >>> I need to do one more post about that to wrap it up. It's working >>> well for me, but warnings about not being clocked in to something, and >>> better understanding of what I'm doing based on headings or tags, >>> would be useful. >> >> Thanks for your kind words! >> >> It's not that fancy (yet?), but has one big advantage over clock tables: >> it updates dynamically (using org-clock-out-hook), so it's fast. Also, >> as you could see, it does some simple calculations. >> >> And for the record: it's based on properties, not tags - but that is >> a minor issue. >> >> Best, >> >> -- >> Marcin Borkowski >> http://mbork.pl >> >> -- Luke, use the FOSS Sent from Emacs