At Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:24:15 -0600,
Russell Adams wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:36:24AM -0600, Xiaolong Tang wrote:
Hi all,
I am in the case of keep tracking of my development on a project in
org-mode.
Suppose that I have a project called lambda. Preferably I set up a file
lambda.org for this project.
I use Org to execute every one of my professional projects. Outside of
two files I use for my Agenda and as a Remember target, every project
gets its own file just like that. Most of my projects are fairly short
and get closed up completely and archived.
Each day I may push more TODO lists into the project while making
some progress on those TODO lists set up before (All of the TODO
lists are with the same tag, for example, lambda). In order to
report my performance, each time I start to work on the project, I
check in by C-c C-x C-i, namely, clock-in, and check out by C-c
C-x C-o, namely, clock-out. So far so good with the org-mode.
Another item you may consider is that while you are working, you may
not close anything immediately. Each time I switch tasks in the Org
tree or come back to my computer I insert an inactive timestamp into
my file. Suddenly, it's a timestamped project journal!
You can use C-u C-c . , or I posted a piece of elisp a while back that
binds that to F9.
Certainly inserting an (inactive) timestamp in the case as you mentioned is
necessary (to me). Your code is preferred, of course, if you had time.
Next, I expect to have the per day report of the project in terms of the
items and the daily time length I spend on these times. In my mind, the
view looks like something as below:
Monday 11 January 2010
Scheduled [Headline]
TODO [Headline] [Time Length] :@lambda::
TODO [Headline] [Time Length] :@lambda::
...
Tuesday12 January 2010
Scheduled [Headline]
TODO [Headline] [Time Length] :@lambda::
TODO [Headline] [Time Length] :@lambda::
...
...
The timeline view of a single org file does not fit, and neither
does the agenda view with clock report. So, I am wondering how I can
achieve to have the daily report on a project. If my mental model on
a project tracking does not make much sense, is there any
suggestions or advices for using Org-mode to keep track of the
development of a project?
The view I use is the logbook mode in Agenda.
Given my file is composed of todo's with lots of inactive timestamps
and the occasional logged todo state change there is plenty to view.
Load agenda, and press L for logbook. You can adjust the duration
covered by the view (day/week/month), and by default the inactive
timestamps are not shown. Use '[' to enable the display of the
inactive timestamps.
The output will be very similar to what you're asking for. In fact, it
may be identical. You'll see task by day time, with status and
duration clocked.
Yes, you are correct. Yet I have a few questions.
1. The agenda view with logbook-mode enabled does not show the deadline for a
project in some cases. For example, I scheduled a project on Monday January 11,
and set up its deadline, say, March 20. Thus, the original headline looks like:
* TODO XX
SCHEDULED: 2010-01-11 Mon DEADLINE: 2010-03-20 Sat
The view output, however, does not show the deadline. I guess that the
logbook-mode wold not show just because the deadline is far away from today,
and it in principle only shows those happenings. Am I right?
2. Generally creating the agenda view works for all agenda files. So, in case
that one want to create the view for an org file, is there any efficient way to
do that? I have not figured out a satisfying method. Do you have any comment on
this?
3. As you mentioned below, you export the view to HTML. How do you get this
done?
When I have finished a project, I will frequently mail my customer the
project notes exported to HTML and include an html export of the
logbook so they can see what was done when, and to justify the hours.
I agree with you on this opinion.
A lot of thanks to Russell.
Best,
Xiaolong
Good luck!
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