In case anyone was wondering, yes I'm still a nerd: Back in February-ish I started time-tracking work and university projects. I've found it to be just valuable enough that I don't mind the hassle of tracking (elizabeth, totally inspired by Cortex!). For fun I decided to start analyzing the data to look for patterns, which resulted in creating the above graph in Python. Think of the graph as a frequency heatmap for each of my 7 Toggl 'projects' throughout the day. Darker colors in the left graph means I have tracked a lot of time in that project at that moment. Darker colors in the right graph means I have tracked a lot of time relative to other moments in the day in that project. So you can clearly see my morning and evening commute in the right graph, and you can clearly see I've been spending most of my time working on my thesis in the last half year. There are probably more patterns, I'll see what I can dig up!
I do most of my time tracking on mobile so that's not an option. That said, I really don't understand the benefit of emacs. Why should I suffer a command line interface when I can do everything I want with Word, my .md editor of choice or Visual Studio Code?
I use emacs because of org-mode and not the other way around. I haven't found anything in which I can combine writing, latex, coding (in any language I want), to-do list in one single document/system. An example of how I do work in the lab. I have one org-mode file per experiment. The experiment is written in org-mode style which is similar (or even simpler) than markdown. One combination exports it to pdf/html/odt, which is a nice thing. This org-mode file is in a folder with all the files and data I generated that are associated with the experiment. Tables are imported and then processes mainly with R. Tables can be generated inside org-mode even with simple spreadsheet capabilities, outputs from code can be embedded directly in the file and exported, the source code can be either hidden or also exported etc. Now every headline in the file can be turned into a to-do item with a deadline/schedule date, tags etc. The nice thing about org-mode is the Agenda. A place in which you can aggregate all your experiment files and only show the todo items from it. I find it very powerful to use because the options are endless. I know you like python, check out Scimax which is a version of org-mode that is optimized for all the things I mentioned above. They write their publications with it and they mainly use python...