Option to strip tags (except @done) when archiving done items

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Option to strip tags (except @done) when archiving done items.

Would help keep old items out of filtered views.

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Seems reasonable as a non default option. Adding to my list.

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I haven’t seen this implemented yet. I’m looking to strip @today tags from @done items. Otherwise I get many entries from the archive each time I search for @today items which is not what I want.

There was a script to do so for Taskpaper 2 - this I remember. I miss this and the ability to selectively file a @done task in the archive without filing all at once.

I do like the default behaviour of the archive done tasks command to add the project under which the task was originally as this provides useful context and a useful record of things accomplished.

For the rest TaskPaper v3 is coming along nicely - I like it.

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This should be built in now. See Preferences > Tasks > Remove extra tags…

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I’ve found it under preferences at it works. Thanks.

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For me this works:

one @done @today
two @today @done

The Archive Done result is:

Archive:
	one @done
	two @done

This example is a bit tricky:

In particular since the @today text is included twice on each line… in that case TaskPaper will only recognize the first @today as a tag. And then when you archive it will remove that recognized @today tag (but not the other @today text) . But when the archive completes that second @today is recognized since it’s the only one left… giving you:

Archive:
	@done --> @today tag is removed when archived
	@done --> @today tag remains when archived

So for me I think it’s working correctly on Version 3.8.6 (382).

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Jesse,

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the confusion about my example. It was not intended to represent an actual line of text in the editor. I was not expecting it to work with multiple instances of the same tag on the same line. I just tested with several scenarios similar to yours (@done tag before, @done tag in the middle, @done tag at end, multiple other tags) and can no longer replicate the issue.

Thanks,
Chris

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Yeah, I did figure that’s probably what you meant… but since it wasn’t working I figured I would explain that case. Anyway do let me know if you figure out why it wasn’t working for you before. Probably some unconsidered case.

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I think it only occurs with nested tasks. For example, I just archived done tasks and had some child tasks tagged @done where the parent was also tagged @done. The child task had an additional tag of @now which was not stripped out when archived.

  • Task 1 @done(2019-11-20)
    • Task 1.1 @done(2019-11-20)
      • Task 1.1.1 @now @done(2019-11-20)