From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how do you select tasks for clocking in?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:27:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wplp8azp.fsf@charm-ecran.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shwd9q1t.fsf@viking.dsc.soic.indiana.edu> (Allan Streib's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:17:02 -0400")
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On 2016-06-16 16:17, Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu> writes:
> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to consistently use org-clock, but I'm encountering a big
>> obstacle: task selection. I very often do not start working on a task
>> as I'm in my main org file, so to clock it in I would first need to
>> find it there, which is a big enough hurdle for me not to do
>> it. Ideally, I would like to have a global key that I hit that let me
>> choose with ivy/helm/ido one task from my agenda files and start
>> clocking it.
>
> I clock in on the Agenda view. Assumming the tasks for which you are
> tracking time are "TODO" items or otherwise on your agenda, this works
> pretty well for me.
Thank you for the suggestion. I guess that keeping too many tasks
implicit (not in the agenda) works against this, and I should try to
make them explicit if I want to clock them.
Alan
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 6:24 how do you select tasks for clocking in? Alan Schmitt
2016-06-16 13:20 ` cesar mena
2016-06-16 14:20 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-06-16 14:17 ` Allan Streib
2016-06-16 14:27 ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
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2016-06-16 10:43 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-06-16 12:36 ` Alan Schmitt
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