Re: [Orgmode] Re: monthly report
* Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl [2009-03-18 04:42-0400]: On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes: On May 25, 2007, at 3:41, Steven Lumos wrote: Being yet another planner switcher, I'm used to using planner- report- generate to assist me with writing a monthly activity report. I don't need fine-grained time tracking, or even most of what planner- report- generate does--it would be ideal to get just a list of TODOs that were closed between two dates and then I'll look at it while I type a few sentences in an email buffer. Is there already an easy way to get a list (I guess that a sparse tree would be most convenient for me) of TODOs marked as closed within some date range? [snip: lisp function (26 lines)] Ok, I tried this and I'm not sure what it did, if anything. I get the mini-buffer saying, 'Specified time is not representable' I've tried various date range possibilities, and can't get it to work. It seems that you are specifying the date in an invalid way. What are you typing when prompted for a date? Ok, I restarted emacs and tried again, and now I am not given this mini-buffer message at all. On restart, I found an error in my .emacs, which could have been causing this issue. Chalk that up to confused internal state I guess. However, org-closed-in-range still doesn't seem to be doing anything interesting, as far as I can tell. It folded up my org file, but thats about it. Maybe there is a better way for me to get at what I want, and I just haven't found it yet (I am pretty new at org) and debugging this might not be the best thing to do if there is something better to solve my need. I basically just need to, at the end of the week, produce a report of what I've worked on for that week, both things I finished, but also things that are still in progress. Including the time spent is useful too. I can go into the agenda and hit 'R' to get a time-table at the end of the page, but I need a more granual day-by-day breakdown (Monday: 4hrs, worked on X, Y and completed Z). thanks for your response! micah signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Re: monthly report
On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: * Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl [2009-03-18 04:42-0400]: On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes: On May 25, 2007, at 3:41, Steven Lumos wrote: Being yet another planner switcher, I'm used to using planner- report- generate to assist me with writing a monthly activity report. I don't need fine-grained time tracking, or even most of what planner- report- generate does--it would be ideal to get just a list of TODOs that were closed between two dates and then I'll look at it while I type a few sentences in an email buffer. Is there already an easy way to get a list (I guess that a sparse tree would be most convenient for me) of TODOs marked as closed within some date range? [snip: lisp function (26 lines)] Ok, I tried this and I'm not sure what it did, if anything. I get the mini-buffer saying, 'Specified time is not representable' I've tried various date range possibilities, and can't get it to work. It seems that you are specifying the date in an invalid way. What are you typing when prompted for a date? Ok, I restarted emacs and tried again, and now I am not given this mini-buffer message at all. On restart, I found an error in my .emacs, which could have been causing this issue. Chalk that up to confused internal state I guess. However, org-closed-in-range still doesn't seem to be doing anything interesting, as far as I can tell. It folded up my org file, but thats about it. Do you have CLOSED: timestamps in the buffer? You do get these by setting (setq org-log-done 'time) or by doing #+STARTUP: logdone - Carsten Maybe there is a better way for me to get at what I want, and I just haven't found it yet (I am pretty new at org) and debugging this might not be the best thing to do if there is something better to solve my need. I basically just need to, at the end of the week, produce a report of what I've worked on for that week, both things I finished, but also things that are still in progress. Including the time spent is useful too. I can go into the agenda and hit 'R' to get a time-table at the end of the page, but I need a more granual day-by-day breakdown (Monday: 4hrs, worked on X, Y and completed Z). You can configure the clock report to be delivered for days by setting the :step day property in org-agenda-clock-report-parameter-plist Or you can switch to a daily agenda (the d) key and look at the clock report day by day. Pressing l or C-u l turns on the log info for days, showing you what you did on a particular day, provided that you have recorded that informtation by setting org-log-done, of by clocking time, or by recording state changes. All this is in the manual. HTH - Carsten thanks for your response! micah ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Re: monthly report
On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: Hi all, apologies for resurrecting an older thread, but I was searching for this very capability and found this post. Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes: On May 25, 2007, at 3:41, Steven Lumos wrote: Being yet another planner switcher, I'm used to using planner- report- generate to assist me with writing a monthly activity report. I don't need fine-grained time tracking, or even most of what planner- report- generate does--it would be ideal to get just a list of TODOs that were closed between two dates and then I'll look at it while I type a few sentences in an email buffer. Is there already an easy way to get a list (I guess that a sparse tree would be most convenient for me) of TODOs marked as closed within some date range? I have been trying to figure this one out myself. Thank goodness for list archives! You can use org-occur to create a tree with matches of CLOSED time stamps. And you can use the callback argument of org-occur to verify if a match is in a given time interval. Something like this: (defun org-closed-in-range () Sparse treee of items closed in a certain time range. (interactive) ;; Get the time interval from the user. (let* ((time1 (time-to-seconds (org-read-date nil 'to-time nil Starting date: ))) (time2 (time-to-seconds (org-read-date nil 'to-time nil End date:))) ;; callbakc function (callback (lambda () (let ((time (time-to-seconds (apply 'encode-time (org-parse-time-string (match-string 1)) ;; check if time in interval (and (= time time1) (= time time2)) ;; make tree, check each match with the callback (org-occur CLOSED: +\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] nil callback))) Ok, I tried this and I'm not sure what it did, if anything. I get the mini-buffer saying, 'Specified time is not representable' I've tried various date range possibilities, and can't get it to work. It seems that you are specifying the date in an invalid way. What are you typing when prompted for a date? - Carsten I did also change the '(org-occur CLOSED: +\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] nil callback)))' to be instead '(org-occur DONE +\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] nil callback)))' due to the way my org seems to represent finished items: ** DONE fix the apt puppet module to automatically add apt-keys, publish that new repository and deploy SCHEDULED: 2009-03-16 Mon - State DONE [2009-03-16 Mon 14:49] \\ made this a lot nicer CLOCK: [2009-03-16 Mon 14:21]--[2009-03-16 Mon 14:21] = 0:00 [2009-03-16 Mon] As far as I can tell, I did not setup this format. I tried to change the (org-occur CLOSED... to be DONE... instead, but no change here either. Thanks for any help! micah ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Re: monthly report
Hi all, apologies for resurrecting an older thread, but I was searching for this very capability and found this post. Carsten Dominik domi...@science.uva.nl writes: On May 25, 2007, at 3:41, Steven Lumos wrote: Being yet another planner switcher, I'm used to using planner-report- generate to assist me with writing a monthly activity report. I don't need fine-grained time tracking, or even most of what planner-report- generate does--it would be ideal to get just a list of TODOs that were closed between two dates and then I'll look at it while I type a few sentences in an email buffer. Is there already an easy way to get a list (I guess that a sparse tree would be most convenient for me) of TODOs marked as closed within some date range? I have been trying to figure this one out myself. Thank goodness for list archives! You can use org-occur to create a tree with matches of CLOSED time stamps. And you can use the callback argument of org-occur to verify if a match is in a given time interval. Something like this: (defun org-closed-in-range () Sparse treee of items closed in a certain time range. (interactive) ;; Get the time interval from the user. (let* ((time1 (time-to-seconds (org-read-date nil 'to-time nil Starting date: ))) (time2 (time-to-seconds (org-read-date nil 'to-time nil End date:))) ;; callbakc function (callback (lambda () (let ((time (time-to-seconds (apply 'encode-time (org-parse-time-string (match-string 1)) ;; check if time in interval (and (= time time1) (= time time2)) ;; make tree, check each match with the callback (org-occur CLOSED: +\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] nil callback))) Ok, I tried this and I'm not sure what it did, if anything. I get the mini-buffer saying, 'Specified time is not representable' I've tried various date range possibilities, and can't get it to work. I did also change the '(org-occur CLOSED: +\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] nil callback)))' to be instead '(org-occur DONE +\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] nil callback)))' due to the way my org seems to represent finished items: ** DONE fix the apt puppet module to automatically add apt-keys, publish that new repository and deploy SCHEDULED: 2009-03-16 Mon - State DONE [2009-03-16 Mon 14:49] \\ made this a lot nicer CLOCK: [2009-03-16 Mon 14:21]--[2009-03-16 Mon 14:21] = 0:00 [2009-03-16 Mon] As far as I can tell, I did not setup this format. I tried to change the (org-occur CLOSED... to be DONE... instead, but no change here either. Thanks for any help! micah ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
