John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That is indeed an excellent solution if you want to add a tag for a >> todo kw. However, I wonder if there is a direct approach, where the >> exporter simply does not export if it is a certain todo kw. Is the >> solution to have the exporter delete anything with that todo kw? Or >> is there a way to have it skip? > > I think that was Carsten's suggestion a bit back, but I'm not sure. I > think I asked if it was just deleting as it channeled through the > export function but didn't get a response. Looking back, though, I'm > sure that's what it was and my question was probably a bit silly :)
You are correct. The export hook that Carsten provided deletes items in a temporary buffer, not in your org files. In fact, you can use the export hooks to do almost anything to this temporary buffers before they are exported; your original org files will not be touched. > And yes, I have turned this off as I find adding :noexport: to ever > todo in addition to whatever tags I already use to ID the project/task > is annoying and ugly. I've toyed with simply having a * Tracking > headline at the beginning of each file where I dump todos via capture > and track time and then having that have a top level noexport tag to > take care of things. That's pretty much nice, but I still like todos > created during meeting minutes or in the context of some other project > notes to stay where they make sense rather than separating them from > their location and putting them elsewhere. > > So.... I've got some solutions but am not quite happy yet. I should > re-visit Carsten's solution to strip it on export. That would probably > be the ticket. Yes, that would be the easiest solution, requiring no additional markup. Best, Matt
