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

-- 
OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7
Monthly Athmospheric CO₂, Mauna Loa Obs. 2015-05: 403.94, 2016-05: 407.70