From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 13:47:11 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2108041339420.78512@shell3.miskatonic.org> (raw)
When I've marked a TODO item as DONE and want to get it out of my projects list,
I've always used C-c C-x C-a (org-archive-subtree-default) to get it out of the
way.
Today I had to go through the archive file to find an old note about something,
and the file was huge because it was filled with many trivial TODOs that didn't
need to be archived. For example, If I'm waiting to hear back from someone,
when they reply I usually just want to mark the task DONE and delete it. I
don't need to record it forever.
Maybe I've been using the archiving not as intended, but I don't see any other
command for getting rid of a TODO. I can't find a command to delete the current
task. Am I missing something? Is there a keystroke to delete a TODO? Or does
everyone archive everything?
Bill
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William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada
next reply other threads:[~2021-08-04 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 17:47 William Denton [this message]
2021-08-04 19:55 ` Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done Peter Neilson
2021-08-04 20:08 ` Hanno Perrey
2021-08-04 21:27 ` Samuel Wales
2021-08-04 22:17 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-05 7:35 ` Dominique Dumont
2021-08-05 14:45 ` William Denton
2021-08-05 8:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-05 9:36 ` Dominique Dumont
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