From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Frings Subject: Providing clock context when stopping the clock (enhancement request) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:25:12 +0200 Message-ID: <6D30D0BB-4B5C-4C0E-9193-CC1CD0CF96CB@agfa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRTqK-0003vI-Cf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:25:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRTqJ-0003uK-26 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:25:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36481 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRTqI-0003uD-SA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:25:26 -0400 Received: from mornm01-out.agfa.com ([134.54.1.75]:52640) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRTqI-0000kt-GR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:25:26 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Org-Mode Hi all, summary: provide the context of the running clock in the note buffer when clocking out. I might not be doing well in the 'getting organized' department, because I often forget what I was doing... :-) So I have a little enhancement request that would make my life a little easier... Here's the situation: I have org-log-note-clock-out set so I can enter a little note about what it was I was doing. Now, I often get interrupts while banging away at the keyboard (not necessarily in emacs). Often, I don't get the time (or I simply forget) to switch to emacs, clock out and describe what I was doing. Especially not when someone is standing next to me jumping up and down in a very stressful manner. So, when I return to my desk, maybe a hour later, I need to enter the interrupt in my time sheets. So I enter a brief note under the right heading in my time sheet, clock in, and org-mode of course first wants me first to clock out. It prompts me for what I was doing... and I don't know anymore (it's not uncommon to work on several different things during a single day, interrupting one interrupt for another -- and sometimes getting a stack overflow...). So there I am, staring at the clock-out note buffer, trying to remember what the heck I was doing before I got interrupted. Now, org-mode helpfully mentions the time on which the active clock was started, which is nice, but not enough. It would be *really* helpful when it would show the heading (maybe context) of the running clock, right there, in the note buffer, staring at my face.[1] I know one can first jump to the active clock, read it, and then proceed to clock out/in. But you wouldn't need to do all that when the note buffer shows the context, would you? It sure would help me. Does this make sense? Thanks, Peter -- who is still learning org-mode, and appreciating it a lot! BTW: there's a small typo in the description of org-log-note-clock-out: "Non-nil means, recored a note when ..." s/recored/record/ [1] slightly off-topic: this is similar to what Don Norman (in "The Psychology of Everyday Things") refers as 'knowledge in the world' versus 'knowledge in the brain'. The more info and context a system provides, the less the user has to remember, and the easier it is for him to use the system.