From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Schmitt Subject: Re: how do you select tasks for clocking in? Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:27:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87shwd9q1t.fsf@viking.dsc.soic.indiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDYGl-0000wK-AT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:27:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDYGg-0005Si-VO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:27:42 -0400 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:54686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDYGg-0005Sb-OY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:27:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87shwd9q1t.fsf@viking.dsc.soic.indiana.edu> (Allan Streib's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:17:02 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Allan Streib Cc: emacs-orgmode --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2016-06-16 16:17, Allan Streib writes: > Alan Schmitt 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 =2D-=20 OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 Monthly Athmospheric CO=E2=82=82, Mauna Loa Obs. 2015-05: 403.94, 2016-05: = 407.70 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJXYrdaAAoJEAQNCjtO0uXH6VIH/3vX/AzLsyl+wGzKJuRdOLuF F3l+JgFsrnrYnQQ68xFfX1YFiDMWLGTwOqcYPoKBVqJpsq+c1FF1m/jFZsjxCMaE RhdPMRhXVHiD8SsYqCzx3Ni4p3cB2Vi1+AdlcA8p1OUbRUkjyLctI+hQoeNk3MtX VSewiA4N/B85h0p993wvw1x0PvXqigmenlO9J0OvtHwI5y2fXlp8P1BUgninknZr 4Z2okqAneEB68kNLFMAhJJxHmGAS/vyqOxe2DR24JSICjvbX6SENwZOu0QfqUGc5 qoDUlyY7t04sWet96ZjS5WqRWlaDDKokCjERa+IJKmRZ3elxvbrbVc6m86Xqs5c= =Y//Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--