Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-22 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On 6/22/07, Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it's harder to design an interface where different levels have different columns. Sometimes the columns will make sense on different levels so they opt to leave them there. Also, as we see in the screenshot, they can be used for summ

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-22 Thread Scott Jaderholm
On 6/22/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I find a bit strange though is that it is using a hierarchy, and every level of the hierarchy has the same columns. Columns seem to make more sense for items with equal level, at least to me. I think it's harder to design an interfac

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-22 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jun 19, 2007, at 19:45, Scott Jaderholm wrote: Carsten, Have spreadsheet like columns for lists been discussed before, and if so, what was the verdict? I have seen them mentioned before but never understood what was meant, so nothing from my side happened. Thanks for sending the illustrat

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On 6/19/07, Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see a property list under each heading as a way of doing columns, albeit in a less user friendly way. I can see this being useful anywhere you have hierarchal data to which you would like to add structure. Currently, I normally transfer it

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Scott Jaderholm
On 6/19/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the discussion must be about how you would like Org-mode to make use of such data. Obviously it would be easy to write (as you suggest) a little function that returns all this data as, say, a property list. But then you would still need

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Russell Adams
> takes 8 hours, the second subtask should then be scheduled on the 16th? > > - Carsten I hadn't considered using "workhours" logic, simply a relative time forward from the schedule parent. -- Russell Adams

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Eddward DeVilla
On 6/19/07, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 13, 2007, at 17:33, Eddward DeVilla wrote: >I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general > format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated > with a heading or todo item. It seems the heading

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jun 19, 2007, at 13:21, Russell Adams wrote: It could be nice later to schedule A, and then have each of a1-3 show up on the agenda based on their duration. I am not sure if I understand what you mean here. - Carsten I mean that the parent would be scheduled at a fixed date/time, and th

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Russell Adams
> So the discussion must be about how you would like Org-mode to make > use of such data. Obviously it would be easy to write (as you > suggest) a little function that returns all this data as, say, > a property list. But then you would still need to use it in > some way. Are you suggesting tis

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Russell Adams
> >It could be nice later to schedule A, and then have each > >of a1-3 show up on the agenda based on their duration. > > I am not sure if I understand what you mean here. > > - Carsten I mean that the parent would be scheduled at a fixed date/time, and then child entries would be in the agenda

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jun 13, 2007, at 15:47, Russell Adams wrote: If this feature already exists, I've missed it... I'm planning ahead on some items, and having a way to represent the amount of time a TODO item will take, and then having the parent total the duration of the children would be very helpful. * TO

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-19 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jun 13, 2007, at 17:33, Eddward DeVilla wrote: I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated with a heading or todo item. It seems the heading is getting a little crowded. Would it be reasonable to sa

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-18 Thread Russell Adams
I'm looking specificaly at project planning... I like the idea of the key/value pairs under a heading, perhaps later it could be used for other datatypes (TID,DEPENDS,ASSIGNED, etc). I frequently use a tree of TODO's to describe steps in a project plan, and check them off as they are completed.

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-14 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jun 13, 2007, at 23:58, Scott Jaderholm wrote: On 6/13/07, Russell Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm planning ahead on some items, and having a way to represent the amount of time a TODO item will take On a similar note, I like using the clocktable to see how long things have taken me

Fwd: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-14 Thread Eddward DeVilla
Just forwarding to the list. I forgot to. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eddward DeVilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 13, 2007 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally To: Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 6/13/07, Scott Jaderholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-14 Thread Jason F. McBrayer
"Eddward DeVilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >We already have SCHEDULED, DEADLINE, & CLOSED that are meaningful > to org-mode. And CLOCK, as well. -- +---+ | Jason F. McBrayer[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | If someone conqu

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-13 Thread Russell Adams
I like that alot! However my goal was one of simple project planning. Thanks! On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:33:48AM -0500, Eddward DeVilla wrote: >I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general > format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated > with a heading

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-13 Thread Scott Jaderholm
On 6/13/07, Russell Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm planning ahead on some items, and having a way to represent the amount of time a TODO item will take On a similar note, I like using the clocktable to see how long things have taken me, but sometimes I just want to put a time value under

Re: [Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-13 Thread Eddward DeVilla
I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated with a heading or todo item. It seems the heading is getting a little crowded. Would it be reasonable to say that a list of non-whitespace listing following the

[Orgmode] Duration Tally

2007-06-13 Thread Russell Adams
If this feature already exists, I've missed it... I'm planning ahead on some items, and having a way to represent the amount of time a TODO item will take, and then having the parent total the duration of the children would be very helpful. * TODO A {6h} ** TODO a1 {2h} ** TODO a2 {2h} ** TODO a3