Folks, I've been struggling with something and thought I'd ask you folks.
I'm an attorney. I use org-mode for various things, because it's convenient, simple and flexible. And most case management software for lawyers is awful. Anyway, one of the things I do in org is keep my time. The ordinary timekeeping function in org is interesting and neat in some ways, but not useful for my purposes. I need to provide my employer with a set of timeslips, where each record consists of a date, client name, description, and time interval in decimal form. Everything that I've tried that attempts to "help" me do this fails in one way or another. The solution I have is a table in org that is set up like this: | date | client | desc | [time]--[time] | H:M | x.x | Org is perfect for this because it does what no other time and billing solution I've seen does -- it lets me just record two timestamps in plain text and get an interval. The only other piece of software I've ever seen that does this was a calendar program that let you do this in its notes field. My problem is this. I populate the fifth field with c-- c-u c-y. I would be nice if it happened automatically, but that's no big deal. However, I've been going through and manually entering the sixth field, and that does end up being a hassle. Calc seems to only work on timestamps and not have any straight way to convert H:M to decimal. I suppose I could keep my in and out timestamps in separate fields and figure out a way to have calc work on them, but it seems like there should be an easier solution. Any thoughts? In any event, I thought it might be of interest for folks to see a use case from a non-engineering professional. Paul _______________________________________________ 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
