EmacsWiki: Worklog Mode (original) (raw)
Lisp:worklog.el is used to keep track of time you spend on tasks. It allows you to summarize the tasks for easy overview of how much time you spent on tasks.
Lisp:worklog.el was created by KaiGrossjohann but since version 2.0 it is maintained by ArjenWiersma.
Since version 2.3 worklog.el is compatible between GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
I put up my development version on github: http://github.com/credmp/worklog/tree/master
The actual homepage of the mode moved to: http://www.credmp.org/WorkLog.html
I found that worklog is nice but the fact that it has to switch to the .worklog buffer was pretty annoying.
I wrote a cheezy hack to get around it. I’m not a very talented ELisp hacker so please feel free to better this code.
(defun worklog-quick-start (task)
(interactive "sTask: ")
(let (curbuf (current-buffer))
(worklog-do-task task t)
(switch-to-buffer curbuf t)))
(defun worklog-quick-stop ()
(interactive)
(let (curbuf (current-buffer))
(worklog-task-stop)
(switch-to-buffer curbuf t)))Cool! I will take this into the development version of worklog… probably more people would like to use this 
– ArjenWiersma
I use worklog.el for all my time tracking, and it’s been very good so far.
It wouldn’t be bad if I could either do a *worklog_summary* page in hh:mm or hours and (decimal) fractional hours. It’s easy to convert the few entries under tasks; it’s more work to do all the entries under “by date.”
Finally, I found an anomaly today. I have a day in my .worklog that looks like
2006-06-08 08:35 login
2006-06-08 08:35 task1
2006-06-08 10:17 stop
2006-06-08 13:30 task2
2006-06-08 15:30 stop
2006-06-08 21:03 task1
2006-06-08 22:19 stop
2006-06-08 22:19 logout
Unfortunately, the *worklog_summary* page section looks like
2006-06-08 2.58 task1
I noticed it, because I added task2 today manually, and it didn’t increment the overall sum for task2. I have this problem with version 2.3 and 2.4.1. If you see what could be causing this and fix it, I’d be really grateful.