Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com> writes: > I find Org's clocking to be too detailed, and that it doesn't play > well with dynamically organized hierarchies of notes. I frequently > create and close subtasks, or switch parts of the tree. Clocking each > one is too much overhead, and too granular. I don't need to provide > down to the minute reports of each item. It also doesn't appear to > allow rounding of values, so I still have to adjust the results. > > What I envision is a way to count items in the agenda view to produce > a time report. Counting any inactive timestamp as 15 minutes, where if > a half hour or more is logged I round up to bill the hour. Closed TODO > items should count toward billing that whole hour. Clearly this should > be customized. > > The point is that I'm not worried about accounting time by task, > instead I'm aggregating tasks into accounting by whole hours. > > I'm looking at org-element, and it appears I'd have to do my own > agenda style scan of the whole tree to find items to classify by > hour. While I'm somewhat proficient at elisp, that sounds like a steep > wall to climb. > > Is there an iterative way to review items in an agenda view so I can > do the math to produce a report?
You may hook into timestamp insertion/todo-state change functions and accumulate the "time" into headline properties. I did something conceptually similar in https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#bonuspenalty-based-time-management Hope it helps. Best, Ihor
