From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Archiving and not archiving... Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:07:10 +0100 Message-ID: <7D769F3A-D705-461C-85FC-2E21CE04C0D9@uva.nl> References: <49B6D412.9060203@sift.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LhQ1c-0001V1-66 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:07:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LhQ1a-0001UJ-HW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:07:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46954 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LhQ1a-0001UC-CN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:07:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f179.google.com ([209.85.219.179]:56393) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhQ1Z-0002X4-O2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:07:14 -0400 Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so53250ewy.42 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:07:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49B6D412.9060203@sift.info> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Robert Goldman Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Robert Goldman wrote: > [My apologies in advance if this is a FAQ.] > > I have a bunch of Org files in which I have tasks some of which > involve > doing something for work (trivial or non-trivial), and some of which > involve doing something for home (trivial like picking up laundry or > more important like doing a call to a company that needs to be > logged). > > My question has to do with archiving. I archive my tasks to separate > archive files. What I'd really like to be able to do is to identify > some tasks as being worth archiving (calling a company to request them > to fix a billing error, for example), and some of which are not > (picking > up the dry cleaning, returning library books). > > Does anyone have a technique for marking tasks so that they get > electively archived when one uses one of the archiving commands? Hmm, this really seems to make sense only if you are using a command that scans the buffer for DONE tasks and archives all of them. Is that what you do? One possibility is to give tasks their own ARCHIVE property which could point to a garbage file for boring tasks. I myself archive everything. I don't care how big the archive gets because I only need to look at it if I need to find something back. Who cares how big this file is. - Carsten