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I'm trying to set the title of my emacs to how much work I've done in total.

I would like to get the time I've logged today programatically. (like when you open agenda and press 'R'). How do I do that?

I tried: (as per this link)

(format " Today's total: %s " (org-minutes-to-clocksum-string (org-clock-sum-today)))

But that returns 0:00

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org-clock-sum-today only gets clock data from the buffer that Emacs is currently visiting, (set-buffer "test.org") in the linked example. I came up with this based on org-dblock-write:clocktable in org-clock, maybe it will work for you?

(defun eqyiel-org-clock-sum-today ()
  "Visit each file in `org-agenda-files' and return the total time of today's
clocked tasks in minutes."
  (let ((files (org-agenda-files))
        (total 0))
    (org-agenda-prepare-buffers files)
    (dolist (file files)
      (with-current-buffer (find-buffer-visiting file)
        (setq total (+ total (org-clock-sum-today)))))
    total))
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  • This worked, thank you!. This lags a bit when it runs, so I made a little function that runs this in the background once a minute and caches it's output. – Leo Ufimtsev Jul 21 '15 at 0:42

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