Re: [Orgmode] Re: Clocking work time with a date not a time only

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Giovanni and Jan,
>
> > > I use Clocking work time function for a logging my work. [...] I  
> > > would like
> > > have in a table not a times but a dates too.
>
> I have related questions on this subject as well...
>
> Up to now, I was clocking time with timeclock-x under Emacs, and  
> files such
> as:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> i 2009/02/02 08:45:00 Client1
> o 2009/02/02 09:35:00
>
>
> > > Reading my mails.
> i 2009/02/02 09:35:00 Client2
> o 2009/02/02 12:30:00
>
>
> > > Analysing their stuff for CCh.
> i 2009/02/02 13:35:00 Client1
> o 2009/02/02 17:30:00
>
>
> > > Written the big report.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This is nice because it is chronological and I have notes about  
> every clocked
> time, but that's all...
>
> Org beats this by orders of magnitude. That's why I've decided to  
> begin now to
> use Org as well for that.
>
> Here is my example for these first 2 days of April:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> * 2009-04
>
> *** Client1
>    :LOGBOOK:
>    CLOCK: [2009-04-01 Wed 09:05]--[2009-04-01 Wed 12:00] =>  2:55
>    CLOCK: [2009-04-01 Wed 13:10]--[2009-04-01 Wed 16:30] =>  3:20
>    CLOCK: [2009-04-02 Thu 08:55]
>    :END:
>
> *** Client2
>    :LOGBOOK:
>    CLOCK: [2009-04-01 Wed 12:00]--[2009-04-01 Wed 12:30] =>  0:30
>    CLOCK: [2009-04-01 Wed 16:30]--[2009-04-01 Wed 17:15] =>  0:45
>    :END:
>
>
> #+BEGIN: clocktable :maxlevel 2 :scope file :block today
> Clock summary at [2009-04-02 Thu 10:41], for Thursday, April 02, 2009.
>
> | L | Headline     | Time   |
> |---+--------------+--------|
> |   | *Total time* | *0:00* |
> |---+--------------+--------|
> #+END:
>
>
> #+BEGIN: clocktable :maxlevel 2 :scope file
> Clock summary at [2009-04-02 Thu 10:41]
>
> | L | Headline     | Time   |      |
> |---+--------------+--------+------|
> |   | *Total time* | *7:30* |      |
> |---+--------------+--------+------|
> | 1 | 2009-04      | 7:30   |      |
> | 2 | Client1      |        | 6:15 |
> | 2 | Client2      |        | 1:15 |
> #+END:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Fantastic is that I can check how much time I've globally worked on  
> which
> project for this day and for this month at the same time.
>
> Though:
>
> - how can I associate a one-line comment to every block of time that  
> I clock?
>  The goal is to be able to justify, later, what I did on the  
> different days I
>  worked for them (and put that in their bill).

#+STARTUP: lognoteclock-out

>  Am I forced to add sub-headlines for every block of time?  Is there  
> another
>  better (clearer) way to do?
>
> - is there a possibility to get back, out of such a file, a  
> chronological view
>  of the whole file (where all projects are mixed)?

This is what the timeline buffer is for:

C-c a L

to get the buffer,

then press `l' or even `C-u l'

to get logging information included into this time-sorted display

- Carsten