Geralt <usr.gen...@googlemail.com> writes: > I want to track the time that I'll spend on a new project. For this > I'm planning to use org-mode's clocking feature, so far my first tests > (I've never used org-agenda before) showed me that I can do this > easily from the agenda view, as long as I have a DATE: property in my > node. And that's a bit of a problem because I don't really have a > scheduled date when I'm going to work on a part of this project. > Is there a way in org-mode to just clock the time and have the agenda > view show me on the views for every day (or time interval) just the > clocked times for every tree item that fall into this time > interval/range? > And how can I start clocking items that do not show up in the agenda > view?
Just visit the org file with the task you want to clock in and do C-c C-x C-i to clock it in. C-c C-x C-o stops the clock (or when you clock in something else it stops). You can only clock one thing at a time. Play with it in a test task to see how it works. You can clock in from the agenda directly (if it's visible there) with just I (and O for clock out) I've documented how I use clocking stuff here: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking >I'm not sure if it's understandable what I want, so I here's a > small example org-file and a description of what I want to see and how > I want to work on it: > Basic layout of the org-file: > * Part 1 > :CLOCK: > CLOCK: [2009-07-20 Mon 12:40]--[2009-07-20 Mon 14:43] => 2:03 > CLOCK: [2009-07-23 Thu 22:28]--[2009-07-23 Thu 22:48] => 0:20 > :END: > * Part 2 > :CLOCK: > CLOCK: [2009-07-24 Fri 09:45]--[2009-07-24 Fri 11:15] => 1:30 > :END: > > What I want: > (Re-)start at any time the clocking of one of either Part 1 or Part 2 > whenever I'm working on it and get summaries of the total working > times on a day, week, or whatever time interval I want and the total > working time I've spent on the project or single parts on it. > > > I assume that a lot of you are using org-mode exactly for this purpose > and probably you know how to do it better, so if you have any > suggestions how I could do it better please tell me :-) The agenda is not limited to date ranges. You can find tasks to clock in via the agenda in lots of ways such as: - tags searches (C-c a m) - org-occur searches by regexp (C-c a /) - custom agenda view etc. I tend to clock in tasks that show up on my agenda for today, or from STARTED or NEXT tag searches. HTH, Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
