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You seem to have auto-archiving enabled, so a done task is automatically moved from todo.txt to done.txt. Therefore, the first step is to move the task back:

$ todo.sh mv 2 todo.txt done.txt

(There's no numbering of the archived tasks; you need to obtain the task number by manually counting (eh) or (better) from the DONE: 2 of 2 tasks shown line of the listall output.)
If you disable auto-archiving (export TODOTXT_AUTO_ARCHIVE=0 in todo.cfg), done tasks aren't automatically moved and instead you need to occasionally clean up the task list via todo.sh archive. I like this configuration because you'll have all recently done tasks still close by, and the explicit archiving (e.g. every weeke…

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This discussion was converted from issue #474 on October 12, 2025 08:25.