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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: cesar mena <cesar.mena@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how do you select tasks for clocking in?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:20:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m260t99pvo.fsf@charm-ecran.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh25qnhr.fsf@cmena.pobox.com> (cesar mena's message of "Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:20:16 -0400")

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On 2016-06-16 15:20, cesar mena <cesar.mena@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> 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. 

This is great! I already use the project structure from this document,
so I should be able to adapt this to my setting. Thanks a lot for
reminding me of this treasure trove.

Alan

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-16 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16  6:24 how do you select tasks for clocking in? Alan Schmitt
2016-06-16 13:20 ` cesar mena
2016-06-16 14:20   ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2016-06-16 14:17 ` Allan Streib
2016-06-16 14:27   ` Alan Schmitt
     [not found] <36df951f45fe4b5aab1453e37b70f4dd@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-06-16 10:43 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-06-16 12:36   ` Alan Schmitt

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