Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes: > I have repeating events of type OTHER, as in: > > * OTHER Foo > <2015-09-16 +1w> > > When I have finished the task for today, I mark it done. Because it is > a repeating event, it doesn't actually change to DONE, instead it > changes to TODO and adds a :LAST_REPEAT: item in the :PROPERTIES: > drawer. > > How do I tell this specific item, or all OTHER items in general, that > after completion it should remain OTHER rather than changing to TODO? >
Do you *have* to have a TODO state? If not, #+TODO: OTHER | DONE should do the trick. Or you could use multiple sets: #+TODO: TODO INPROGRESS | DONE #+TODO: OTHER | COMPLETED In the latter case, the keywords all have to be different. See (info "(org) TODO items") Nick