org: Relative timer
8.6 Taking notes with a relative timer
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When taking notes during, for example, a meeting or a video viewing, it
can be useful to have access to times relative to a starting time. Org
provides such a relative timer and make it easy to create timed notes.
‘C-c C-x . (org-timer)’
Insert a relative time into the buffer. The first time you use
this, the timer will be started. When called with a prefix
argument, the timer is restarted.
‘C-c C-x - (org-timer-item)’
Insert a description list item with the current relative time.
With a prefix argument, first reset the timer to 0.
‘M-<RET> (org-insert-heading)’
Once the timer list is started, you can also use ‘M-<RET>’ to
insert new timer items.
‘C-c C-x ,’
Pause the timer, or continue it if it is already paused
(‘org-timer-pause-or-continue’).
‘C-u C-c C-x ,’
Stop the timer. After this, you can only start a new timer, not
continue the old one. This command also removes the timer from the
mode line.
‘C-c C-x 0 (org-timer-start)’
Reset the timer without inserting anything into the buffer. By
default, the timer is reset to 0. When called with a ‘C-u’ prefix,
reset the timer to specific starting offset. The user is prompted
for the offset, with a default taken from a timer string at point,
if any, So this can be used to restart taking notes after a break
in the process. When called with a double prefix argument ‘C-u
C-u’, change all timer strings in the active region by a certain
amount. This can be used to fix timer strings if the timer was not
started at exactly the right moment.
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