How to archive all the DONE tasks using a single command

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Talespin_Kit picture Talespin_Kit · Aug 9, 2011 · Viewed 18.4k times · Source

To archive the DONE tasks i am using

C-c C-x a

command. The draw back is i have to manually move over the DONE tasks one by one and then archive it.

How to archive all the DONE tasks using a single command.

Answer

Jonathan Leech-Pepin picture Jonathan Leech-Pepin · Aug 9, 2011

You can bulk archive (or refile/change todo etc) from within the Agenda view.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-commands.html#Agenda-commands

If you call Org-Agenda from within the buffer you want to archive you can temporarily restrict it to only that buffer and view only todo entries and filter for only DONE

C-c a < t
N r

Where N corresponds to the shortcut for your DONE state (with default states it would be 2)

Then you'd simply need to mark all the desired headlines and bulk archive

m (mark for bulk action)
B a (or B $ for arch->sibling)

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