payoto / latex_summary

"Automatically" generate a summaries of large latex documents.
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Add ability to parse time estimation #5

Open MattEdwards94 opened 4 years ago

MattEdwards94 commented 4 years ago

A possible use case of todo's is to help time management by estimating time requirements.

Example:

%!TODO: (10) Format text
Lorem ipsum.....

Where the number in brackets indicates the number of minutes estimated for the task. This behaviour is possible as is, as shown by this example from a real document. image

What would be nice is to parse this information, and provide this with the "parser results", showing "Total estimated time: 10 minutes".

Anticipated challenges and notes: May require some form of unique identifier beyond just brackets, e.g. `t(10)' or otherwise. Should handle some todo's without time estimates. I'm happy with the unit of time always being minutes. Depending on complexity, the option to sort "List of To-dos and questions" by time estimate would be useful.