From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cesar mena Subject: Re: how do you select tasks for clocking in? Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:20:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87lh25qnhr.fsf@cmena.pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDXDh-0001w0-4R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:20:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDXDb-0005YA-55 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:20:28 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:45301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDXDZ-0005X3-SZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:20:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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: Alan Schmitt , emacs-orgmode Alan Schmitt writes: > [ Unknown signature status ] > Hello, > > 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. > > Does such a thing exist? If not, how do you start clocking in? > > Thanks, > > Alan this http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking is a different approach using a default task and clocking history. it might be helpful. -cm