John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > 3) The habit family of features -- set up some initial goals > (recurring todo headlines) and then just got to the headline and mark > done (possibly with a note) to record the event.
org-agenda is a handy way of marking tasks as complete, too. I have an Org subtree with my daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly routines, and another section for "In case of..." lists that cover event-driven routines. > -- Has anyone done something like this? I see it as very similar to > habit tracking. To give an example, I've had a bit of a persistent I've been using Emacs and Ledger to keep track of my finances since 2005. I've also been tracking miscellaneous things (clothes, time, etc.) on quantifiedawesome.com . I share my notes at http://sachachua.com/blog/category/quantified . I often go back and use data from notes that I've taken using org-capture. For example, if you set it to clock in and out automatically, you can tell how long it takes to write a blog post. It's easy to write a function that counts the words in a subtree and calculates your WPM. Effort / time elapsed information might also be very interesting for self-tracking. You can use org-set-effort to estimate the time it takes to complete a task, clock into a task when you start working on it, have it clock out when you're done, and then check how accurate your estimates are. Bonus: you get a modeline reminder of time elapsed vs time estimated, and it turns a different colour when you go overtime. I'm working on using org-contacts to quantify my social interactions like the way that I was using BBDB to do so before. I tracked e-mail interactions (# of days this message waited for a reply, # of messages I've sent to people) when I used Gnus to do my mail, but mail setup is a bit more complicated with Gmail and a Windows system, so I haven't done this for a while. I have some basic Emacs integration with QuantifiedAwesome - I can post some records to my system from Emacs using the REST API. I've been thinking about having it update my time tracking system when I clock in and out of tasks, as that would be cool. > -- I see I can insert [inactive] timestamps in mobile-org. Making > something a TODO seems to require manual input? I find the One option might be to use a different app like Tap Log Records to capture timestamped records and generate a CSV, then write some code to parse the CSV and update your Org file. It's totally a hack, though. Sacha Chua
