Re: Deleting (not archiving) TODO items when done

[Samuel Wales]

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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