Intro Due to the nature of my work, I operate in a variety of environments, databases, and languages. Emacs is very good for this. As an example of this, I just found myself needing to verify if an update had worked on the PostGres database of a remote server. First I logged in to the server with better-shell-remote-open1, and then I sudoed and changed to the postgres user, then I quickly fired up my bookmarked myPostgres.

For years my workflow has centered in org-agenda and I would go from one clocked item to the next. For instance, I would be clocked into my “Emails” task, which never closes, and then eventually move down in the agenda to “Task B”. Then I hit C-x TAB to clock in. It correctly queries for a comment on the task I’m leaving but no longer clocks me in to the new task as I’d asked.