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[teampractices] Google Calendar Gadget for tracking total weekly hours
Max Binder
2016-09-22 21:58:15 UTC
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Recently, I thought it would be nice to have a lightweight tool for showing
me how many hours per week I am in meetings. I found this:
https://sites.google.com/site/weeklytimecounts/

It's not exactly what I'm looking for (it calculates total hours of
meetings that have the same title), but it's similar. Anyone know of a tool
that integrates with Google Calendar to calculate the total number of hours
one is booked? Even more handy might be a tool that shows you the same
information but for other calendars to which you are subscribed (such as
teammates).
Kevin Smith
2016-09-23 23:26:12 UTC
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Source code to the gadget is available, and looks pretty simple. I think it
would be quick to change the logic from creating a new bucket for every
unique title to doing....something else. Just need to figure out what that
"something" is.

Personally, I would like to have about 6 buckets. People who color-code
their types of meetings might want a bucket per color. It sounds like Max
just wants One Big Bucket(tm), which would be easiest of all.


Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Max Binder
Recently, I thought it would be nice to have a lightweight tool for
https://sites.google.com/site/weeklytimecounts/
It's not exactly what I'm looking for (it calculates total hours of
meetings that have the same title), but it's similar. Anyone know of a tool
that integrates with Google Calendar to calculate the total number of hours
one is booked? Even more handy might be a tool that shows you the same
information but for other calendars to which you are subscribed (such as
teammates).
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Joel Aufrecht
2016-09-23 23:34:48 UTC
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I've been experimenting with several different tools to track my own time
usage, and ... it's really really hard to do it consistently enough, and
report on it often enough, to get any value at all out of it.



*-- Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Kevin Smith
Source code to the gadget is available, and looks pretty simple. I think
it would be quick to change the logic from creating a new bucket for every
unique title to doing....something else. Just need to figure out what that
"something" is.
Personally, I would like to have about 6 buckets. People who color-code
their types of meetings might want a bucket per color. It sounds like Max
just wants One Big Bucket(tm), which would be easiest of all.
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Max Binder
Recently, I thought it would be nice to have a lightweight tool for
https://sites.google.com/site/weeklytimecounts/
It's not exactly what I'm looking for (it calculates total hours of
meetings that have the same title), but it's similar. Anyone know of a tool
that integrates with Google Calendar to calculate the total number of hours
one is booked? Even more handy might be a tool that shows you the same
information but for other calendars to which you are subscribed (such as
teammates).
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Kevin Smith
2016-09-23 23:45:36 UTC
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If there is a tool to dump a week's worth of my calendar into a text file,
I could write a ruby script that would give me some cool (and hopefully
valuable) insights. I haven't looked to see if such a tool is available,
but I would guess there probably is.


Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Joel Aufrecht
I've been experimenting with several different tools to track my own time
usage, and ... it's really really hard to do it consistently enough, and
report on it often enough, to get any value at all out of it.
*-- Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Kevin Smith
Source code to the gadget is available, and looks pretty simple. I think
it would be quick to change the logic from creating a new bucket for every
unique title to doing....something else. Just need to figure out what that
"something" is.
Personally, I would like to have about 6 buckets. People who color-code
their types of meetings might want a bucket per color. It sounds like Max
just wants One Big Bucket(tm), which would be easiest of all.
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Max Binder
Recently, I thought it would be nice to have a lightweight tool for
https://sites.google.com/site/weeklytimecounts/
It's not exactly what I'm looking for (it calculates total hours of
meetings that have the same title), but it's similar. Anyone know of a tool
that integrates with Google Calendar to calculate the total number of hours
one is booked? Even more handy might be a tool that shows you the same
information but for other calendars to which you are subscribed (such as
teammates).
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Max Binder
2016-09-24 00:11:58 UTC
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https://www.gtimereport.com/Home/Export

or

https://www.gcal2excel.com/

maybe. I'm mostly looking for something dynamic that I can see at a glance.
I've thought about digging into the source code for gadget, might just...
Post by Kevin Smith
If there is a tool to dump a week's worth of my calendar into a text file,
I could write a ruby script that would give me some cool (and hopefully
valuable) insights. I haven't looked to see if such a tool is available,
but I would guess there probably is.
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Joel Aufrecht
I've been experimenting with several different tools to track my own time
usage, and ... it's really really hard to do it consistently enough, and
report on it often enough, to get any value at all out of it.
*-- Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Kevin Smith
Source code to the gadget is available, and looks pretty simple. I think
it would be quick to change the logic from creating a new bucket for every
unique title to doing....something else. Just need to figure out what that
"something" is.
Personally, I would like to have about 6 buckets. People who color-code
their types of meetings might want a bucket per color. It sounds like Max
just wants One Big Bucket(tm), which would be easiest of all.
Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation
Post by Max Binder
Recently, I thought it would be nice to have a lightweight tool for
https://sites.google.com/site/weeklytimecounts/
It's not exactly what I'm looking for (it calculates total hours of
meetings that have the same title), but it's similar. Anyone know of a tool
that integrates with Google Calendar to calculate the total number of hours
one is booked? Even more handy might be a tool that shows you the same
information but for other calendars to which you are subscribed (such as
teammates).
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