My (as yet unobtained) goal is to get familiar enough with org-mode[1] and figure out a personal workflow that fits with my company, so that I can manage a plan

My (as yet unobtained) goal is to get familiar enough with org-mode[1] and figure out a personal workflow that fits with my company, so that I can manage a planning/clocking setup along the lines of http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking It's complicated by a couple of factors: * nobody else at work would be using the same system (but we don't use anything anyway) * I don't use emacs for mail, and haven't yet got it to talk to google calendar in a sensible fashion * my elisp is about as good as any of my other lisps, which is practically nothing. On the plus side: * Evidence based scheduling - I'm a crap planner, and being able to compare estimates with reality would be the first step towards fixing it. * I could stop making up arbitrary numbers of hours worked on a given project, and actually provide some evidence.[2] * Formalising a workflow would help keep me on track when I'm not sure what needs doing next. * Having a tracker/agenda/scheduler/outliner all together makes for some interesting integration potential. [1] http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/ - outliner with all sorts of extra shineys for Emacs. [2] Less unethical than it sounds - I'm basically subtracting out the time I spend faffing around on the internet. But I suspect I'm sometimes too generous with my subtractions.