On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:21:24PM +0800, Daryl Manning wrote: > I'm just setting up a new time tracking system and have in the past used > Harvest to track and bill clients. >
I bill my clients from work I log with Org. I keep one file per project per customer. Every time I change tasks, leave the keyboard and return, or just feel it is appropriate I add an inactive timestamp to my notes. I've simplified that with a keybind to make it one keypress instead of C-u C-c ! Enter. At the end of the month, I look at a per Org file agenda via with logbook mode and inactive timestamps enabled (C-c a 1 a L [) and count up the hours. On issue with automating the counting (ie: clocking in and out) is that each customer may have different rules (ie: minimum hours for a task, emergency after hours support, etc). I haven't a good way to encode that information. I do tend to make a simple table with my count. I enter this data manually into other timekeeping systems depending on the customer, or my invoicing system. Unfortunately given the variety I see no good way to directly export and invoice. I find the flexibility of Org allows me to quickly do this with all my needed data in one place. I often put ticket #'s as tags on my headlines, and if a customer questions the bill I just save my agenda view as HTML and send it over. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
