On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> I use to clock in a task when beginning to write in a remember buffer.
> For example when receive a phone call from a customer I pop up a  
> remember template and the first thing I do is to start the clock.
>
> - it would be very nice to have a way to do this automatically,  
> maybe a certain variable ...

You could use remember-mode-hook to run org-clock-in, maybe depending
on some string that you find and remove in the buffer.  The string could
be part of the template, for example CLOCK-IN:

(add-hook 'remember-mode-hook 'my-start-clock-if-needed)
(defun my-start-clock-if-needed ()
   (save-excursion
     (goto-char (point-min))
     (when (re-search-forward " *CLOCK-IN *" nil t)
        (replace-match "")
        (org-clock-in))))

> After writing down notes and doing some stuff, documenting further  
> in the clocked in remember buffer, I finally want to save and close  
> the remember template.
> After for example "C-u C-c C-c" I am asked if I want to clock out...

The query happens when the buffer gets killed - by then it is too  
late, the
content of the buffer has already been filed away.

I will (in 5.20) have a check if the clock is running in the remember  
buffer
before allowing you it file it.  This will not be an automatic clock-out
because that would lead to trouble with possibly adding a note about
clocking out.  But it will stop you from exiting without clocking out  
first.

- Carsten