From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: George Pearson <george@canals.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: delete on DONE
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:29:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2035517-5A5A-47AA-A791-F5E475B34653@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC45E83.17983.6AB24EE@george.canals.com>
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-24 20:27 Proposal: delete on DONE George Pearson
2010-10-24 20:29 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-24 20:35 ` George Pearson
2010-11-01 5:04 ` Jeff Horn
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