On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Michael Gilbert <m...@gilbert.org> wrote: > Hi all — >
[snip] > I have a desire to better track the history of notes and tasks, as they get > created, refiled, etc. This involves several elements, but one of them > involves a piece that I've wanted for a while: a way to keep the data that is > lost when I refile an item from my default date-tree file — the date the item > was created/added. > > Perhaps there is some obvious (but mysterious to me) variable I can set for > this, but I haven't found it. What I want is to be able to have a string > similar to the others added to the logbook (like " - Refiled on [2012-05-28 > Mon 11:33]"), but for the date/time the item first appeared. > Bernt Hansen does this (I think this is what you're looking for). Can this help? -- http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-15-21 #+begin_src elisp (defun bh/insert-inactive-timestamp () (interactive) (org-insert-time-stamp nil t t nil nil nil)) (defun bh/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp () (save-excursion (org-return) (org-cycle) (bh/insert-inactive-timestamp))) (add-hook 'org-insert-heading-hook 'bh/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp 'append) #+end_src Best regards, John > Is anyone else already doing this? > > — Michael > > > http://nonprofitnews.org > http://gilbert.org > > > >