Re: [O] Agenda, Deadline, DONE

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

hymie! <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings.  I'm new to OrgMode, and I'm still working my way 
> through.  It has a lot of the old functionality and features of 
> the PalmPilot "Bonsai" program, which I miss terribly, and I 
> hope you take that as a compliment. 

Welcome.

> I have a TODO that looks like this (I had to pull out the 
> details, of course): 
>
> ** DONE task number 3 
>    SCHEDULED: <2014-07-30> - State "DONE"       from "TODO" 
>    [2014-07-30 Wed 14:47] DEADLINE: <2014-08-08> 
>
> In my Agenda, I see this: 
>
> Friday      8 August 2014 
>   file:       Deadline:   DONE task number 3 
>
> It seems to me that, if the task is already completed, then I no 
> longer care about the deadline. It's done. So I'd rather not see 
> it in the Agenda. 
>
> I guess I could just remove the deadline from the task itself, 
> but I kinda like having the historical info (that I finished a 
> week and a half early).
>
> Is there a way to remove deadlines for DONE tasks from the 
> Agenda? 

I also like to keep the historical info, but in order to keep my 
tasks.org file clean (and save some time while building the 
agenda) I keep it in a separate file. Probably the simplest way is 
something like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
 (setq org-archive-location "~/org/archive.org::") 
#+END_SRC  Now when you do not want to see something anymore, you 
can press C-c C-x C-a from the org file or the agenda to move the 
item to the archive.org file. Check the documentation of 
org-archive-location or (info "(org) Archiving") for more details.

Best,

--
Jorge.