Hi Malcom, On 2019-04-17 at 14:20 +0200, Malcolm Matalka <mmata...@gmail.com> wrote... > Is it possible in org-mode to track, and report, the duration of > certain state transitions in org-mode? In particular, I'm interested > in tracking how long it takes me to go from a state that means I'm > actively working on an item to it being in a done state? > > In my case, an item might go from working, to waiting, to working, to > done. And in this case I'm only really interested in the last working > to done time.
Org doesn't have a built-in feature to turn on/off the clock when you change state, as far as I know. But it has the opposite - you can change state when you clock in or out of a task. See section 7 here https://writequit.org/denver-emacs/presentations/2017-04-11-time-clocking-with-org.html#helpful-things And/or maybe thread here w/ some code https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode//2009-04/msg00315.html So perhaps you can achieve this by changing your workflow a bit. Instead of changing state, just clock in and have the state set to INPROGRESS. Clock otu and have it set to WAITING. When it is done, it may be a two-step process of setting to DONE and making sure the clock is stopped. Would this achieve what you're looking for? -k.
