[Chicago] Template Document

[Tim Gebhardt]

List of good time tracking apps:
http://lifehacker.com/5362829/five-best-time+tracking-applications

I use ManicTime and it works on your whole Windows session, not just in
Emacs.  I use it to shame myself if I spend too much time browsing around
and not getting stuff done.

It works by recording what the active window over a period of time in the
day.  If you were in something document-centric and popular, like Firefox,
Word, Visual Studio, etc. it'll even tell you what document you were working
on or what website you were browsing.

Then at the end of the day you can browse your detailed time line of what
applications, documents, and websites you were actively using, and you can
just click and drag regions of activity and tag them with what you were
working on.  It can then produces some pretty boss-friendly reports.

I think the for-pay version even has some work-group level functionality.


Tim Gebhardt
tim at gebhardtcomputing.com


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Christopher Allan Webber <
cwebber at dustycloud.org> wrote:

> There is a tool that does pretty much all you're asking for and more.
> It's plaintext, it's beautiful, it's as simple or as complex as you
> need.
>
> It's called orgmode.
> http://orgmode.org/
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.php
>
> It's also the best thing that's happened to me in years.  Okay that's
> stretching it.  Maybe it's not stretching it.
>
> Seriously, orgmode is the fucking best.
>
> Also, if you turn on logging, you can pull up a list of every item
> you've worked on very easily from the agenda.  I use it to pull up lists
> of everything I've done for the last 2 weeks for our bi-weekly progress
> update at work.
>
> It also does task and note capturing, etc, with references back to where
> your task came from.
>
> I even use it to sync our work bugtracker with my local notes.  I've
> been meaning to write a blogpost on this, it's pretty simple with
> org-babel.
>
> Emacs users only, though!  Although if there weren't enough reasons
> already to use emacs, orgmode itself would be a reason.  There are
> several vim users on the orgmode mailing list that only use emacs for
> orgmode (with viper-mode enabled of course) :O
>
>  - cwebb
>
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