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My config (spacemacs with ~0 extra) sets a CLOSED time when I move a task in org-mode to DONE:

***** DONE A task
CLOSED: [2022-09-12 Mon 16:18] SCHEDULED: <2022-09-07 Wed>

It's easy to only show DONE tasks, but now I'd like to get an agenda view that can use the timestamp set for CLOSED so that I can look back at what items I've finished in the past week. What can I do to build this?

I'm a beginner at this so I'm probably missing some basics. For instance I don't know what the difference is between a [timestamp] and a <timestamp>.

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  • For the difference between [ts] and <ts> see Inactive timestamp.
    – NickD
    Sep 13, 2022 at 17:34
  • Inactive timestamps ([ts]) do not contribute to the agenda, whereas active timestamps (<ts>) do.
    – NickD
    Jul 11 at 2:10

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In the agenda dispatcher view (i.e. after C-c a if you have customized the setting as the manual suggests - or after M-x org-agenda), select m for a query to match tags/properties/todo and specify the following entry:

TODO="DONE"&CLOSED>="<-1w>"

That should give you a list of DONE items that were CLOSED in the past week. I don't think it's sorted though and I don't remember how to sort that view (or even if it is possible). Untested.

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I know this is an old question, but I was trying to do the same thing and ended cooking something up. So I might as well share.

Since there doesn't seem to be anything of the sort available out of the box, we need a custom sort function and thus also to set an entry in org-agenda-custom-commands so as to be able to set proper sorting. For an custom-commands entry like:

("n" "Whatever"
 ((tags "CLOSED<=\"<now>\""))
 ((org-agenda-cmp-user-defined 'org-cmp-closed)
  (org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(user-defined-down))))

We define the corresponding sort function as:

(defun org-cmp-closed (a b)
  (let* ((a-marker (get-text-property 0 'org-marker a))
         (b-marker (get-text-property 0 'org-marker b))
         (now (current-time))
         (a-closed-ts (org-timestamp-from-string
                       (org-entry-get a-marker "CLOSED")))
         (b-closed-ts (org-timestamp-from-string
                       (org-entry-get b-marker "CLOSED")))
         (a-closed-time (or (and a-closed-ts
                                 (org-timestamp-to-time a-closed-ts))
                            now))
         (b-closed-time (or (and b-closed-ts
                                 (org-timestamp-to-time b-closed-ts))
                            now)))
    (cond ((time-less-p b-closed-time a-closed-time) +1)
          ((time-less-p a-closed-time b-closed-time) -1)
          (t nil))))

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