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From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: a small remember suggestion
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:29:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20524da70903232029k74017cdcj655821e98f1613fc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6E22B50C-E9E2-4F09-96EE-19F6BE4C7ABD@uva.nl>

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:16, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> I have now added a variable `org-remember-backup-directory'.
> Set this to a directory, and every remember buffer
> you create will end up in a separate file, with date
> and time in the file name, so that you can always recover.

That is perfect.  Thank you.

> Note that, if you use remember frequently, you will create
> a lot of these files.  So maybe we need to think of an expiry
> mechanism?  Like, remove any files older than a few days?

As one possibility, how about removing the file once the contents are
successfully moved to their target locations?

After that,

(when (plusp number)
  (message "you have %s saved remember files" number))

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 19:28 a small remember suggestion Samuel Wales
     [not found] ` <7bef1f890903211425p1b1329ebxd42b3d7c1a3a77d7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-22  2:01   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-22 15:16     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-22 17:03       ` Richard Riley
2009-03-22 20:36       ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-24  3:29       ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2009-03-24  3:42         ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-24 11:29           ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 11:29         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 14:22           ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-25  8:22             ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-25  4:46           ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-25  6:24             ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-25  8:23               ` Carsten Dominik

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