Yep same here, if you are slinging code all day in emacs, it's nice to be able to bring up your agenda in another buffer when you need it so that you aren't swi

Yep same here, if you are slinging code all day in emacs, it's nice to be able to bring up your agenda in another buffer when you need it so that you aren't switching too much out of context. I use remember to add tasks as they come up so that I can quickly get back in to what I was working on. For me it all has to do with dealing with the little interruptions from people throughout the day. Ideally this wouldn't happen at all, and I could focus 100% on what I'm supposed to be doing. But in the real world, people people interact, a phone call/email etc.... When I'm coding and someone arrives at my desk and says something like "Sorry to bother you this will only take a minute...", it triggers my fingers (C-R n) and once the conversation has ended I hopefully have notes of action items I need to address maybe even with a due date if i'm lucky.(C-c C-c) Or if it was pointless/not actionable (C-c C-k) and my cursor is right back where I was before being interrupted. http://sachachua.com/blog/2008/01/capturing-notes-with-remember/ http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/remember.html I also track time with org-mode. (C-c a n) to bring up the agenda view, cursor to task i'm going to work on (C-c C-x i) to clock in. When I mark the task complete it clocks me out. Over the week of doing this, you will see your tasks on the timeline in your agenda view which gives you an awesome sense of accomplishment. If you stick with it you'll have enough data to generate some really nerdy reports on what you do all day, or if you are freelancing, a format that goes a long way towards a proper invoice. I've never had a client ask for more information about what I was doing by applying this technique. Like with everything emacs, I've barely scratched the surface on what is possible. emacs + org-mode + remember = a process that can scale from macro to micro and is very adaptable to your needs.