[Orgmode] Re: Agenda view: How many hours did I work today, and on what

[Bernt Hansen]

Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>   I would like to know how others have solved following questions about their 
> work:
>
> - How many hours did I work today? (of course, only time clocked with org 
> does count)
> - What have I worked on exactly today? (or any other day)
>
>
>   I have been trying „column mode“ in agenda view (with Effort and CLOCK 
> columns) and „log mode“ (key „l“ in agenda view), but neither does exactly 
> what I want.
>
>   For instance, if I'm reporting about today's time:
> - if I worked today 10 minutes on a task which accounts for 2h of clocked 
> time in the past, I want to count 10 minutes work for today, instead of 
> showing 2h and telling „I worked today on a 2h task“
> - my report must show only tasks on which I actually worked today, on not the 
> ones which may have any other relation with today. For instance, a task 
> scheduled for today but with 30min from yesterday shouldn't appear, because I 
> didn't work on it today
> - if today I clocked task A for 5 minutes, then clocked in B for 10 minutes, 
> and then A again 30 minutes, ideally I would like to see 2 lines for task A 
> (5+30), instead of just accounting 35 minutes
> - the sum of today's hours should be correct: if I have been clocking tasks 
> from 10:00 to 19:00, I expect the sum to be around 9 hours
> - the report should be exact and not sum up times in level-3-headings; tasks 
> from all levels should be listed together instead
> - ideally, the report would state not only the time per task, but from which 
> hour to what hour; ex: 10:58 to 11:22, worked 24min on task „****** try this“
>
>
>
>   My motivation to have these queries are:
> - know how much work I clock daily with org and help me to clock more
> - be sure that at my job I'm working as many hours per day as I'm expected to 
> (no more, no less)
> - do a weekly review to know the tasks I worked on longer at each day from 
> last week
> - extract some work patterns: do I work more at the morning, at the night; 
> for how long, …
>
>
>   Has someone a 100% pleasant solution for this?

In the agenda hit 'R' to get a clock report that only covers the period
of time displayed by the agenda.

-Bernt