<reordered (and wrapped) the email to remove top-posting> Keith Swartz <g...@oneroad.com> writes:
> Carsten Dominik wrote: >> >> On May 26, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Manish wrote: >> >>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Keith Swartz wrote: >>>> >>>> However, if I use M-S-ENTER to combine the above two steps into >>>> one (create >>>> a "TODO" item), it does NOT create an entry in the LOGBOOK for State >>>> "TODO" from "" at all. Is that a bug? >>> >>> IMO, this is not really a state change. >> >> In interesting point, and something up for discussion. >> >> I personally am neter interesting in recording a time stamp when >> first switching an item to TODO. Furthermore, for other state >> changes I prefer to record a note. >> However, M-S-RET is really meant for fast adding of one or more TODO >> entries, and being prompted for a state change note would be really >> annoying here. >> >> Up for discussion, I am willing to install a variable here.... > > I can see where M-S-ENTER prompting for a status note change would be > annoying. Personally, I don't use that feature, so I didn't think of > that -- I'm more interested in the timestamps. Basically, I like being > able to record /when/ something was first entered as a todo item -- > gives me a good way to see which items are the oldest. > > One thought is to record the state change, but default the status note > to "TODO created", rather than prompting for it. > > Then again, maybe a variable is the best answer here, because sooner > or later, somebody is going to want to change that. Normally, I'd hate > to add more and more variables just to complicate things, but org-mode > seems to have no shortage of them. (That's a good thing!) :) I use org-remember for creating tasks where I want to know the created time. I create most of my tasks with the remember interface and it's easy to put the date in the template with %u. For me every log entry creates a log drawer and I wouldn't want that by default for every new task created with M-S-RET. http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Remember -Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
