[Orgmode] Re: Day workflow: need your opinion

[Bernt Hansen]

Xavier Maillard <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks a lot Bernt. This is how I am doing things right now which
> "partially" works for me.
>
> I need a way to tag a TODO as INTERRUPTED automatically when
> clocking-in a new item through remember.
>
> Eg:
>
> Working on task A which is marked as STARTED. Someone calls me
> asking for help. I C-M-r a new clocked item, automatically
> marking previous clocked-in item (task A) as INTERRUPTED.

There is a variable for changing task states when clocking out a task.
Every task that clocks out but isn't finished is essentially
interrupted.

The variable org-clock-out-switch-to-state controls that IIRC but I've
never actually tried that (yet).  I just leave my tasks in a STARTED
state.  Anything for me that is STARTED is interrupted (partially worked
on and unfinished).  My STARTED list tends to be less than 20 tasks
total (13 right now).  I just use my STARTED agenda view to pick up the
in-progress tasks easily and clock one in.

>
> Even better would be to have something that could clock-out
> automatically when a task hits some tags: WAITING or INTERRUPTED.
>
> Do you know if it is possible ?

There is a org-after-todo-state-change-hook which you could probably use
to accomplish this.

>
> Also, while at it: how do you access a "daily report" of what has
> been done and how long it took to do ?

I look at my clock report data in the agenda.  Just pull up a day or
week view and hit R for the report.  You can insert clock reports in
your org files and this is the way I used to do this... but when agenda
reporting came along I abandoned that altogether.

HTH,
Bernt