Re: a small remember suggestion

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:16, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> I have now added a variable `org-remember-backup-directory'.
> Set this to a directory, and every remember buffer
> you create will end up in a separate file, with date
> and time in the file name, so that you can always recover.

That is perfect.  Thank you.

> Note that, if you use remember frequently, you will create
> a lot of these files.  So maybe we need to think of an expiry
> mechanism?  Like, remove any files older than a few days?

As one possibility, how about removing the file once the contents are
successfully moved to their target locations?

After that,

(when (plusp number)
  (message "you have %s saved remember files" number))

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