Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> writes: > David Masterson <dsmasterson92...@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
