Re: Tips on maintaining history in Org Mode

[David Masterson]

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>
>> There are many ways of maintaining history in a group of Org files:
>> 1. Archive within a file
>> 2. Archive to a separate (archive) file
>> 3. Special TODO types for history
>> 4. Special TAG types for history
>> 5. etc.
>>
>> My question is, if you have meetings/phone calls as TODOs, what is the
>> preferred way to handle when they move into history so that, *much*
>> later, you can easily produce a list of all of the meetings/phone calls
>> with dates and times of them?  The issue (I think) is, when you mark the
>> TODO as DONE, you lose the info of what the TODO was originally.
>
> A lot will depend on your requirements.
>
> For me, my TODOs are setup so that they record a date stamp for when
> they were added and whenever they change state e.g. started, done,
> delegated etc.

So, you use progress logging.

> For non-TODO items, I will often put an inactive timestamp in the
> heading title.

Do your headings become busy?

What would you use to then make a list of all meetings you had last year?

-- 
David Masterson