Re: [Orgmode] a small remember suggestion

[Carsten Dominik]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:16, Carsten Dominik  
> <address@hidden> 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?

Of course!  I will do that.

> After that,
>
> (when (plusp number)
>  (message "you have %s saved remember files" number))

Hmmm.   When should this happen?  Not after a
successful remember process, I'd say.....

- Carsten

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