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From: Michael Hoffman <9qobl2n02@sneakemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatically move completed TODO items and checkboxes to another file
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:41:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i4k8do$cgs$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd793r27.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>

Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:34:32 -0700, Michael Hoffman <9qobl2n02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> I have happily been using org-mode for many years to keep a todo
>> list. I like keeping a log of the actions I've completed, but I don't
>> like them in the same file taking up space. Previously I have moved
>> completed TODO items and checkboxes to another log file manually. Is
>> there a good way of doing this automatically? Do you have any other
>> suggestions for how to keep a log of done tasks while removing the
>> cruft left over from the current list?
>>
> Check out the Archiving section in the org info manual.  It does
> exactly what you want.

Thanks, this is very useful. Although it doesn't work with checkboxes as 
individual items to option. Can it be made to work with checkboxes, or 
is there an easy way to convert checkboxes to TODO items?

I've tried

C-u C-c C-c
C-x C-x
C-c *

and then using search/replace to add "TODO "

but that unfortunately eliminates any previous hierarchy in the 
checkboxes. Is there a better way?

Michael Hoffman

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 20:34 Automatically move completed TODO items and checkboxes to another file Michael Hoffman
2010-08-17 20:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-08-19 21:41   ` Michael Hoffman [this message]
2010-09-03  0:31     ` Bastien
2010-09-03 21:17       ` Michael Hoffman
2010-09-05 18:44         ` Bastien
2010-09-05 19:47         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-07 18:58           ` Michael Hoffman
2010-09-07 19:42             ` Achim Gratz

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