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From: Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: how do you select tasks for clocking in?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:17:02 -0400
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To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

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.

Allan