diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd7be1a..71a735d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,15 +24,17 @@ To add the current task to Waybar, add this snippet to your config:
 ```
 
 If you use Emacs as a daemon (e.g. starting it as `emacs --daemon` or calling `(server-start)`),
-you can change the `exec` command to invoke `emacsclient` directly.  In this case, no output file
-will be written.:
+you can change the `exec` command to invoke `emacsclient` directly.  Note that, since Emacsclient
+can’t actually write stuff to the terminal, it will output an Emacs string full of backslashes
+(see [this Emacs SE answer for details](https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/28668/507)); thus, you
+have to pipe the output through `jq fromjson`. In this case, no output file will be written.:
 
 ```json
 "custom/org": {
   "format": " {}",
   "return-type": "json",
   "restart-interval": 5,
-  "exec": "emacsclient --eval '(org-clock-waybar-ouptut-task)'"
+  "exec": "emacsclient --eval '(org-clock-waybar-ouptut-task)' | jq fromjson"
 }
 
 ```
diff --git a/org-clock-waybar.el b/org-clock-waybar.el
index 4adf4f2..0df8469 100644
--- a/org-clock-waybar.el
+++ b/org-clock-waybar.el
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ value of `org-clock-waybar-not-clocked-in-text'."
 This function is ought to be used via Emacsclient:
 
 emacsclient --eval '(org-clock-waybar-output-task)'"
-  (print (org-clock-waybar--get-clocked-task-json)))
+  (org-clock-waybar--get-clocked-task-json))
 
 (defun org-clock-waybar-setup ()
   "Setup org-clock-waybar.