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From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Repeated tasks marked as DONE
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:47:08 +0000
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Myles English writes:

> Hello Tomasz,
>
> Tomasz Piotrowski writes:
>
>> I have a simple question, yet couldn't find an equally simple answer to
>> it. Namely, if I set a repeated task (everyday, say), the agenda
>> shows this tasks _for all days_, even in the past.
>>
>> How can I mark a repeated task DONE if it is completed for a given day,
>> while keeping it as TODO for the future?
>
> This is what works for me, the last_repeat property seams to enable the
> behaviour you describe, the logbook is something extra I vaguely
> remember setting up:
>
> * TODO Put recycle bin out
>  SCHEDULED: <2016-01-28 Thu +2w>
> :PROPERTIES:
> :LAST_REPEAT: [2016-01-16 Sat 13:10]
> :END:
> :LOGBOOK:
> - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2016-01-16 Sat 13:10]
> - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2016-01-02 Sat 17:41]
> - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2015-12-21 Mon 16:22]
> :END:

And see also the variable org-agenda-repeating-timestamp-show-all.
(Having read the available help, don't quite understand way it working
for me...)

Myles