Emacs org mode as a work diary

Question

Is emacs org mode a good choice if you want to maintain a work diary? I have tried to use it and archive old tasks (TODOS) but is there an easy way see which tasks I worked on for example last week ( some task have been timed stamped more than one day ) ?

BRG Anders Olme

Answer 1

To see what I have done by day (there is probably a way to limit it to a particular period of time, but putting that together is a low priority for me), here is what I do. Start with C-c a that brings up the orgmode agenda menu, then L to display the timeline for the current file and finally l to turn log mode on.

That gives me output that looks like this:

...
Wednesday   9 March 2011
Clocked:   (7:21) One of my tasks
Clocked:   (0:07) Another of my tasks
...

Given that this is in emacs, there is probably a way to make this simpler/quicker to use, but this is what I do at the moment.

Answer 2

I've never tried it yet, but org-mode can be used to clock your working times. See : http://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-work-time.html