Thanks! I think that's going to be what I'm looking for, but I got an error: let: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil I traced it down to the =org-element-property :contents-begin= call which essentially ends up looking like this: (org-element-property :contents-begin '((clock (:status closed :value (timestamp (:type inactive-range :raw-value "[2018-08-05 Sun 02:35]--[2018-08-05 Sun 03:06]" :year-start 2018 :month-start 8 :day-start 5 :hour-start 2 :minute-start 35 :year-end 2018 :month-end 8 :day-end 5 :hour-end 3 :minute-end 6 :begin 28124 :end 28171 :post-blank 1)) :duration "0:31" :begin 28112 :end 28180 :post-blank 0 :post-affiliated 28112 :parent (drawer (:begin 28097 :end 28191 :drawer-name "LOGBOOK" :contents-begin 28112 :contents-end 28180 :post-blank 0 :post-affiliated 28097 :parent nil)))))) Then contents-begin isn't being accessed for some reason. I don't know elisp well enough to know why just by looking at that. The raw output I got from my point being over a TODO I yanked from the messages buffer was: (clock (:status closed :value (timestamp (:type inactive-range :raw-value "[2018-08-05 Sun 02:35]--[2018-08-05 Sun 03:06]" :year-start 2018 :month-start 8 :day-start 5 :hour-start 2 :minute-start 35 :year-end 2018 :month-end 8 :day-end 5 :hour-end 3 :minute-end 6 :begin 28124 :end 28171 :post-blank 1)) :duration "0:31" :begin 28112 :end 28180 :post-blank 0 :post-affiliated 28112 :parent (drawer (:begin 28097 :end 28191 :drawer-name "LOGBOOK" :contents-begin 28112 :contents-end 28180 :post-blank 0 :post-affiliated 28097 :parent nil)))) To be able to work with it in org mode I just put a ='= in front of it like: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (org-element-property :contents-begin '((clock (:status closed :value (timestamp (:type inactive-range :raw-value "[2018-08-05 Sun 02:35]--[2018-08-05 Sun 03:06]" :year-start 2018 :month-start 8 :day-start 5 :hour-start 2 :minute-start 35 :year-end 2018 :month-end 8 :day-end 5 :hour-end 3 :minute-end 6 :begin 28124 :end 28171 :post-blank 1)) :duration "0:31" :begin 28112 :end 28180 :post-blank 0 :post-affiliated 28112 :parent (drawer (:begin 28097 :end 28191 :drawer-name "LOGBOOK" :contents-begin 28112 :contents-end 28180 :post-blank 0 :post-affiliated 28097 :parent nil)))))) #+END_SRC If that's the correct way to do that translation, then maybe we are using different org mode versions? I'm using 9.1.9. On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:41 PM John Kitchin wrote: > I think something like this is what you are looking for: > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (defun get-clock-lines () > "Return org-element representations of clock lines in a logbook drawer." > (interactive) > (save-excursion > (goto-char (org-log-beginning)) > (let ((logbook (org-element-at-point)) > (clock-entries '()) > (current-element)) > (goto-char (org-element-property :contents-begin logbook)) > (setq current-element (org-element-at-point)) > (while (eq 'clock (car current-element)) > (push current-element clock-entries) > (forward-line) > (setq current-element (org-element-at-point))) > (reverse clock-entries)))) > > (get-clock-lines) > #+END_SRC > > > Cody Goodman writes: > > > Given a TODO that looks like this: > > > > *** DONE put into spacemacs file > > CLOSED: [2018-08-04 Sat 21:18] > > :LOGBOOK: > > CLOCK: [2018-08-04 Sat 21:16]--[2018-08-04 Sat 12:18] => 0:02 > > :END: > > > > What function will get me the parts in CLOCK: [2018-08-04 Sat > > 21:16]--[2018-08-04 Sat 12:18] => 0:02, preferably in plist format like > > the closed timestamp org-element-at-point gives back of: > > > > (timestamp (:type inactive :raw-value "[2018-08-04 Sat 21:18]" > :year-start > > 2018 :month-start 8 :day-start 4 :hour-start 21 :minute-start 18 > :year-end > > 2018 :month-end 8 :day-end 4 :hour-end 21 :minute-end 18 :begin 46 :end > 68 > > :post-blank 0) > > > > Note org-element-at-point doesn't give back logbook information: > > > > (headline (:raw-value "put into spacemacs file" :begin 1 :end 157 > > :pre-blank 0 :contents-begin 34 :contents-end 157 :level 3 :priority nil > > :tags nil :todo-keyword #("DONE" 0 4 (fontified t face org-done)) > > :todo-type done :post-blank 0 :footnote-section-p nil :archivedp nil > > :commentedp nil :post-affiliated 1 :closed (timestamp (:type inactive > > :raw-value "[2018-08-04 Sat 21:18]" :year-start 2018 :month-start 8 > > :day-start 4 :hour-start 21 :minute-start 18 :year-end 2018 :month-end 8 > > :day-end 4 :hour-end 21 :minute-end 18 :begin 46 :end 68 :post-blank 0)) > > :title "put into spacemacs file")) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Cody > > > -- > Professor John Kitchin > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-7803 > @johnkitchin > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu >