* Proposal: delete on DONE
@ 2010-10-24 20:27 George Pearson
2010-10-24 20:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-11-01 5:04 ` Jeff Horn
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: George Pearson @ 2010-10-24 20:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
I would like to suggest a feature in which, when a task is marked done,
the task is deleted, i.e. no trace of it remains.
I have a number of tasks to do (e.g. "reply to Jeff's email") that I
have NO need to have a record of performing. Currently, these DONE
tasks just pile up in my org files and I need to go manually through
and delete them, a time consuming process.
Would be nice to mark these tasks "delete on done" when created, and
this "flag" could be checked in the "done" processing. Perhaps the
logging property could be used, or is there a better way?
Unfortunately, I have no lisp programming experience to speak of...
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* Re: Proposal: delete on DONE
2010-10-24 20:27 Proposal: delete on DONE George Pearson
@ 2010-10-24 20:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-24 20:35 ` George Pearson
2010-11-01 5:04 ` Jeff Horn
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-10-24 20:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: George Pearson; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:27 PM, George Pearson wrote:
> I would like to suggest a feature in which, when a task is marked
> done,
> the task is deleted, i.e. no trace of it remains.
>
> I have a number of tasks to do (e.g. "reply to Jeff's email") that I
> have NO need to have a record of performing. Currently, these DONE
> tasks just pile up in my org files and I need to go manually through
> and delete them, a time consuming process.
>
> Would be nice to mark these tasks "delete on done" when created, and
> this "flag" could be checked in the "done" processing. Perhaps the
> logging property could be used, or is there a better way?
>
> Unfortunately, I have no lisp programming experience to speak of...
You can just press C-k in the agenda to kill a task instead of marking
it done.
This seems to be more direct than wasting the time to mark them
first....
- Carsten
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* Re: Proposal: delete on DONE
2010-10-24 20:27 Proposal: delete on DONE George Pearson
2010-10-24 20:29 ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2010-11-01 5:04 ` Jeff Horn
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Horn @ 2010-11-01 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: George Pearson; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:27 PM, George Pearson <george@canals.com> wrote:
> I have a number of tasks to do (e.g. "reply to Jeff's email") that I
> have NO need to have a record of performing. Currently, these DONE
> tasks just pile up in my org files and I need to go manually through
> and delete them, a time consuming process.
You might also consider defining a custom agenda view and using bulk
actions to archive done tasks into an archive file.
I've customized org-agenda-custom-commands to show me done tasks from
my org-agenda-files (I'm not sure what this would look like outside
customize):
,----
| '(org-agenda-custom-commands
| (quote (
| ("u" "View unscheduled tasks" todo ""
((org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t)))
| ("vd" "View DONE Tasks" ((todo "DONE" nil)) nil nil)
| ("vf" "View DEFER Tasks" ((todo "DEFER" nil)) nil nil)
| ("vs" "View STARTED Tasks" ((todo "STARTED" nil)) nil nil)
| ("vx" "View Stuck Tasks" ((stuck "" nil)) nil nil))))
`----
Call up DONE tasks with =C-c a v d= and then mark them all with =m=.
This is a good opportunity to review how productive you were for the
day! Pat yourself on the back. Then press =B $= to send tasks from
`example.org` to `example.org_archive` (there will be a prompt in the
mini-buffer).
--
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University
(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com
http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
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