> Hope it is clear now, thanks so much for any help! Sorry for not making my previous email more clear. I actually understood what you want to achieve. My suggestion was rather an alternative approach to "revisit the past" - you can always build agenda view for a specific date (or range of dates) in the past. That way, you would not need to look into archive file manually at all.
On your actual question, I think I found some old reddit comment [1] that may be relevant. The code provides a new command to archive an org headline without actually deleting it. That way, you will get a copy of your headline on the date of archival. Below is the original code with me adding docstrings for more clarity. (defun my/org-archive-delete-logbook () "Delete LOGBOOK of the entry at point. It is obsolete once the copy of the item is moved to the archive file." (save-excursion (org-end-of-meta-data) (let ((elm (org-element-at-point))) (when (and (equal (org-element-type elm) 'drawer) (equal (org-element-property :drawer-name elm) "LOGBOOK")) (delete-region (org-element-property :begin elm) (org-element-property :end elm)))))) (defun my/org-archive-without-delete () "Archive item at point, but do not actually delete it." (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-cut-subtree) (lambda () nil))) (org-archive-subtree))) (defun my/org-archive-logbook () "Create an archive copy of subtree at point and delete LOGBOOK in the first headline of the subtree." (interactive) (my/org-archive-without-delete) (my/org-archive-delete-logbook)) I think you can modify the last function and call it in org-trigger-hook, so that repeating items would be archived without deleting every time you mark the item DONE. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/dg43hs/can_i_archive_a_property_drawer/f3frk2n/ Best, Ihor Gerardo Moro <gerardomor...@gmail.com> writes: > Thanks, Ihor. > Indeed, that is an excellent feature of agenda. I use it sometimes to > visualize what I have DONE during the week on the sopt. > What I aim to accomplish however is a more systematic log of all the DONE > tasks, this is, to have an archive file where to archive all tasks. > This file is in the format: > > 2020 > 2020-01-01 DONE task1 > 2020-01-12 DONE task2 > 2020-02-01 CANCELLED task3 > > So it is indeed a datetree file where I can revisit the past :) if you will. > The problem with habits and repeated tasks is that they don't get archived > when DONE... > They get archived once the task is cancelled or completed as a whole, all > under the day the task stopped continuing, under which I have all the > logged individual completion. > It would be desirable to have each "completion" archived under its > corresponding datetree, it is more meaningful :) > > Hope it is clear now, thanks so much for any help! > GM > So even if I have beeng doing the task every wednesday for a year, it won't > be archived > > El mar., 3 nov. 2020 a las 7:53, Ihor Radchenko (<yanta...@gmail.com>) > escribió: > >> > It would be great if each of these individual "task >> > happenings" were archived under the date and time they were completed >> > individually, and not just all as one block. This way I could get weekly >> > reviews that take those into account. >> >> What about trying to do your weekly review using org-agenda? You can >> show the task every day you complete it by enabling org-agenda-log-mode >> in your weekly agenda (v l). If your tasks are also archived regularly, >> you may also need "v A" to include archive files into agenda view. >> >> Best, >> Ihor >> >> >> Gerardo Moro <gerardomor...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Dear all, >> > >> > I am resending this as I believe it's a useful concept to implement, >> > especially by those who track their tasks and do weekly/monthly reviews. >> > >> > When I archive a repeated task (let's say, a learning project of 15 >> minutes >> > every Wednesday day for 2 months), the task gets archived in a date tree >> > all under the day it was closed (cancelled) as a whole. This means that >> all >> > the LOGGED individual instances of repetition are archived on the day the >> > project got completed. It would be great if each of these individual >> "task >> > happenings" were archived under the date and time they were completed >> > individually, and not just all as one block. This way I could get weekly >> > reviews that take those into account. Not sure if I made myself >> understood! >> > :)) >> > >> > Thanks! >> > G >>