From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Hoffman <9qobl2n02@sneakemail.com> Subject: Re: Automatically move completed TODO items and checkboxes to another file Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:41:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87vd793r27.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51744 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmD22-00015f-7i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:52:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmCrY-0007Y3-Pg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:41:29 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmCrY-0007Xp-Kg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:41:28 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmCrW-00027m-E6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:41:26 +0200 Received: from methionine.gs.washington.edu ([128.208.25.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:41:26 +0200 Received: from 9qobl2n02 by methionine.gs.washington.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:41:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87vd793r27.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:34:32 -0700, Michael Hoffman <9qobl2n02@sneakemail.com> wrote: >> I have happily been using org-mode for many years to keep a todo >> list. I like keeping a log of the actions I've completed, but I don't >> like them in the same file taking up space. Previously I have moved >> completed TODO items and checkboxes to another log file manually. Is >> there a good way of doing this automatically? Do you have any other >> suggestions for how to keep a log of done tasks while removing the >> cruft left over from the current list? >> > Check out the Archiving section in the org info manual. It does > exactly what you want. Thanks, this is very useful. Although it doesn't work with checkboxes as individual items to option. Can it be made to work with checkboxes, or is there an easy way to convert checkboxes to TODO items? I've tried C-u C-c C-c C-x C-x C-c * and then using search/replace to add "TODO " but that unfortunately eliminates any previous hierarchy in the checkboxes. Is there a better way? Michael Hoffman