From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Peter Neilson <neilson@windstream.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:27:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8vAdbMzcWUpsT+BoLB5v0BzLbK5b48xSq3xTi2ByNwwDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.07l9mysvrns8nc@odin>
as peter said, and you can probably collapse and kill the line or kill
using an agenda command.
the archive is used variously. so is git. so are items like
* LOG [ts] header
and also there is logbook. so where does one store e.g. records of
conversations? something i struggle with. in op's case, git and
things like rsnapshot would be the places he could find what he
deleted.
i tend to be conservative, and sometimes doneify and archive AND use
LOG. drawbacks include impossibly slow archiving [i suspect direct OS
appending to file would be a workaround] and finding needles in
haystacks filled with trivial and near-duplicate entries.
some don't search archives much, some want only meaningful things
there. etc. i am learning the maening of bloat.
On 8/4/21, Peter Neilson <neilson@windstream.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:47:11 -0400, William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> When I've marked a TODO item as DONE and want to get it out of my
>> projects list, I've always used C-c C-x C-a
>> (org-archive-subtree-default) to get it out of the way.
>>
>> Today I had to go through the archive file to find an old note about
>> something, and the file was huge because it was filled with many trivial
>>
>> TODOs that didn't need to be archived. For example, If I'm waiting to
>> hear back from someone, when they reply I usually just want to mark the
>> task DONE and delete it. I don't need to record it forever.
>>
>> Maybe I've been using the archiving not as intended, but I don't see any
>>
>> other command for getting rid of a TODO. I can't find a command to
>> delete the current task. Am I missing something? Is there a keystroke
>> to delete a TODO? Or does everyone archive everything?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> --
>> William Denton
>> https://www.miskatonic.org/
>> Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
>> Toronto, Canada
>
> It's just text. Delete it. ^k^k or (for bigger items) establish a region
> and kill it (^w).
>
> If you would like (since you're in emacs) you can write yourself a special
>
> button to do it.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-04 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 17:47 Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done William Denton
2021-08-04 19:55 ` Peter Neilson
2021-08-04 20:08 ` Hanno Perrey
2021-08-04 21:27 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2021-08-04 22:17 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-05 7:35 ` Dominique Dumont
2021-08-05 14:45 ` William Denton
2021-08-05 8:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-05 9:36 ` Dominique Dumont
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