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From: Greg Wilson <grewil@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Automatically "archive" todo-items that are DONE?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:45:47 +0100
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gosh i'm ignorant, I just found the archive stuff in the manual, sorry

this issue -> DONE

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Greg Wilson <grewil@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am a new user, please bear with me.
>
> I keep lots of TODO-lists in a file:
> * project1
> ** DONE ...
> ** TODO ...
> ...
> * project 2
> ** DONE
> ...
>
> After a while, when the number of TODO-items that are turned into
> DONE-items is high, the list gets messy and it's hard to find the
> stuff left TODO.
>
> What I would like, is org-mode to automatically move items that are
> set to DONE into a second "archive"-part of the file, with mirrored
> categories from the TODO-lists. Let me show you an example:
> * project1
> ** TODO ...
> ** TODO ... =A0<-- no more TODO items here, because...
> ...
> * project 2
> ** TODO
> ...
>
> * project1 =A0 =A0 :ARCHIVE: =A0 <--- ... org-mode moves DONE stuff down
> here and adds tag.
> ** DONE ... =A0:ARCHIVE:
> ** DONE .. =A0 :ARCHIVE:
> * project2 =A0 =A0 :ARCHIVE:
> ** DONE... =A0 :ARCHIVE:
>
> This way, the TODO-lists always lists stuff that you actually have to
> do, not cluttered with stuff that's been done.
>
> Is this possible? Would it be hard?
>
> Thank you for a very nice piece of software! /Greg
>