Here is another approach to this auto-clocking question.
Maybe what you really want to track is not how much time you spend on a
specific task but rather how you distribute your time over the tasks.
In this case, you don't need to explicitely clock in and out. You can
act as if a clock was alway
marked an item as DONE would motivate me to go and edit the entry
to be more accurate if it wasn't.
I would really value a feature like this.
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-Original Message-
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:35:27 + (UTC)
From: PT
Subject: [Orgmode] Feature idea: Automatic clocking
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If something like this were implemented, I would definitely try it, as
a way to see where I am wasting effort etc. in the org hierarchy. I
might even use it all the time, if it works.
However, I would probably want it to apply to all headlines above a
certain level, and measure all activity below
I just started using clocking and it seems really useful. It
occured me it could also be done automatically for certain tasks
which are performed in the org buffer.
For example, I work on some text which I keep in an org subtree,
the branches of the subtree hold the chapters, etc.
If the main sub