Re: Tips on maintaining history in Org Mode

[David Masterson]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> My approach is simple.  For TODO items, I archive to separate file when
> done.  That file is easily searchable, e.g. using C-c /.

Ah! org-occur! That's something forgot about and looks useful.

> I keep both the original file and the archive file under revision
> control, just in case.

I do that, too.

>> The issue (I think) is, when you mark the TODO as DONE, you lose the
>> info of what the TODO was originally.
>
> What info is lost?  In fact, if you log state changes, all the
> information is there.

I see how that workss now with org-occur.

> By the way, if you have recurring items, one package that you might find
> useful is org-recur which is on ELPA.

Thanks

-- 
David Masterson