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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Archiving
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:03:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8rvdbaf5dp.fsf@FLM000025LVE9F.catmktg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iq7aqej0.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
>> I've read all the archiving information, and I _think_ that I understand
>> it, bu there is my question.
>>
>>
>> I would like to put archived entries into a file, but keep the headlines
>> that existed when they were 'live', so that when I show them in the
>> clock, they line up under the parents that owned them.  That way I can
>> see how much total time I have spent on certain projects, and just by
>> changing the 'agenda-with-archives' to something else, _not_ see them if
>> I don't want to.
>>
>> Is this possible?   Does some guru know how to do this?
>
> I don't know of an automatic way to do this but I have this manually set
> up in my org-files.
>
> I keep level 1 headings as categories/topics and archive level 2
> subtrees only.
>
> Each of the level 1 headings has a property that defines where the
> archived items should go - so they end up in the same tree structure in
> the archive file.
>
> ,----
> | * Appointments
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :CATEGORY: Appt
> |   :ARCHIVE:  %s_archive::* Appointments
> |   :END:      
> |   ...
> | * Miscellaneous
> |   :PROPERTIES:
> |   :CATEGORY: todo
> |   :ARCHIVE: %s_archive::* Miscellaneous
> |   :END:
> `----
>
> Regards,
> Bernt
>
>


That would work, but _way_ more work than I would like to do....   I
just want a clean, hide 'em, but keep track of 'em, kind of structure.

Thanks for the info though, maybe I can write a perl script to run that
can go in and modify my .org files to create that....

Dave

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-29 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-29 17:49 Archiving J. David Boyd
2010-04-29 18:50 ` Archiving Bernt Hansen
2010-04-29 19:03   ` J. David Boyd [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-08-31  0:46 Archiving Russell Adams
2007-06-21 14:06 archiving J. David Boyd
2007-06-22 15:43 ` archiving Carsten Dominik
2007-06-22 16:43   ` archiving J. David Boyd
2007-06-28 20:03 ` archiving Carsten Dominik

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