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Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges
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Rainer Stengele |
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Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges |
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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:06:37 +0200 |
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Am 13.04.2011 23:06, schrieb Bernt Hansen:
> Paul Mead <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Rainer Stengele <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I do clock every task I work on during the whole day.
>>> At the end of the day or week I have to go over all clock entries in my
>>> agenda
>>> and see if there are holes or overlappings in my clock tables.
>>> If yes I have to adjust the clocks.
>>>
>>> I read Bernt Hansen's comments on how he works with clocks
>>> (http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking).
>>>
>>> What about a function showing the lacking clock ranges over
>>> the day while being in the agenda with log mode on?
>>>
>>> The function could even check for overlapping clock ranges and indicate
>>> these
>>> or jump to these.
>>>
>>> Maybe it would even be good to be able to configure daily and weekly
>>> regular holes in the ranges, for example
>>>
>>> - daily lunch time from [12:00]--[13:00]
>>> - week end days (maybe with diary syntax)
>>> - working days (Monday to Friday for example)
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> -- Rainer
>>
>> I'd defintely use something which identified the gaps and overlaps as
>> they're taking some time to find now that I have to account more closely
>> for my time! I've been considering whether to raise this for a
>> while. The 'regular holes' idea is good to, although not as important
>> for me.
>>
>> Paul
>
> 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?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 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...... ----------------
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
>
Bernt,
that looks very useful!
Regards,
Rainer
- [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Rainer Stengele, 2011/04/13
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Paul Mead, 2011/04/13
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Bernt Hansen, 2011/04/13
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Paul Mead, 2011/04/14
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges,
Rainer Stengele <=
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Carsten Dominik, 2011/04/24
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Rainer Stengele, 2011/04/24
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Carsten Dominik, 2011/04/24
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Carsten Dominik, 2011/04/27
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Bernt Hansen, 2011/04/24
- Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Sébastien Vauban, 2011/04/27
Re: [O] Display missing/overlapping clock ranges, Rainer Stengele, 2011/04/19