Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: > > Hi Rainer and Paul, > > Locating gaps would be useful. I've been meaning to investigate this > but haven't spent any time on it yet. With my current clocking setup > I've found I get very few holes. Checking the times is a task I do > manually just before billing for my time. I currently just use a visual > scan of the daily agenda(s) including clocking lines displayed ensuring > that the start and end times match over the clocking period. > > It should be possible to automate the check. How should a filtered > agenda be handled? I expect you'd want to see the gaps for the entries > that are filtered away otherwise it's only really meaningful when you > look at the entire clocking data. > > The major problem I used to have was clocks that would be opened and > never closed. These were bad because they count as 0 minutes and > without fixing those entries I don't bill for that time. Since the > invention of M-x org-resolve-clocks (which runs everytime I clock in) I > now find these open clocks quickly and don't need to reconstruct the > data a week later. I haven't had this problem in a long time. > > Maybe something like the following mock up? > > Day-agenda (W15): > Wednesday 13 April 2011 > todo: 7:09- 7:11 Clocked: (0:02) Organization > :PERSONAL:: > 7:11- 8:00 - Gap -> (0:49) > org: 8:00- 8:12 Clocked: (0:12) DONE Try to fix this bug > :ORG:WORK:tuning:: > todo: 8:12- 8:26 Clocked: (0:14) Organization > :PERSONAL:: > diary: 8:26- 9:06 Clocked: (0:40) Breakfast > todo: 9:06- 9:30 Clocked: (0:24) Task A > :PERSONAL:: > 9:30-10:58 - Gap -> (1:28) > 10:00...... ---------------- > todo: 10:58-11:11 Clocked: (0:13) Organization > :PERSONAL:: > vvv ------ Overlap ------ vvv > todo: 11:11-11:12 Clocked: (0:01) Read Mail and News > :PERSONAL:: > todo: 11:10-11:14 Clocked: (0:01) Organization > :PERSONAL:: > ^^^ ------ Overlap ------ ^^^ > todo: 11:14-11:15 Clocked: (0:01) Read Mail and News > :PERSONAL:: > todo: 11:15-11:16 Clocked: (0:01) Organization > :PERSONAL:: > 12:00...... ---------------- > 14:00...... ---------------- > 16:00...... ---------------- > 11:16-16:33 - Gap -> (5:17) > todo: 16:33...... Clocked: (-) Read Mail and News > :PERSONAL:: > 16:43...... now - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - > 18:00...... ---------------- > 20:00...... ---------------- > > Regards, > Bernt
Bernt, that's exactly how I'd envisaged the gap identification, and the overlap highlighting looks great. Paul
