How to delete an instruction when it has expired

How to delete an instruction when it has expired

[Renato Pontefice]

Hi,
I’m wondering how can I delete, on my .org file, the line that have:
- an old Timestamp (i.e. if I set a thing to be done today (<2022-10-24 Mon 17:26>)
- a TODO item (always with a past date) <2022-10-24 Mon 17:26>

That to have a more clean .org file.

Is it possible?
How can I obtain it?

Thank you

Renato

Re: How to delete an instruction when it has expired

[Ihor Radchenko]

Renato Pontefice <renato.pontefice@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I’m wondering how can I delete, on my .org file, the line that have:
> - an old Timestamp (i.e. if I set a thing to be done today (<2022-10-24 Mon 17:26>)
> - a TODO item (always with a past date) <2022-10-24 Mon 17:26>
>
> That to have a more clean .org file.
>
> Is it possible?
> How can I obtain it?

Could you please provide more details?

From my reading, you may be able to utilize org-archive functionality
(see 9.2 Archiving section of Org manual).

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Re: How to delete an instruction when it has expired

[Ihor Radchenko]

[Adding Org mailing list back to CC]

Renato Pontefice <renato.pontefice@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe this is not what I’m looking for:
> I have a simple line:
> ** TODO da xxx con yyyyy <2022-10-19 Wed 11:00>
> When the 19th I’ve done this, I change the state from RODO in DONE. I’m wondering if it exist a way to definitely delete this line, because as lines increase, my file get increased and confusing. So Im looking for socomand that let me close and delete the line. A simple line deletion?
> May be…

Pressing C-k on the heading will delete the whole heading if you set
org-special-ctrl-k to non-nil.

Also, the archive functionality I mentioned can move the heading away to
a separate file. See org-archive-location.

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