On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Michael C Gilbert <m...@gilbert.org> wrote: > On May 28, 2012, at 12:56 PM, John Hendy wrote: > >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Michael Gilbert <m...@gilbert.org> wrote: >> >>> 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 > > > Thank you! There it is, on the web, 80% of what I was looking for (of > course). This certainly has the same intent. It does not add any metadata > (such as a prefix " - Added on "), but the documentation for > org-insert-time-stamp makes it obvious how to do that. What eludes me is how > to make it obey the org-clock-into-drawer setting. I'm assuming it doesn't. > > — Michael > >
Yes, I'm not sure about that either... I wonder if looking at the code for what makes todo state changes and properties log into :LOGBOOK: might help? I don't know any elisp to make sense of that. Perhaps Bernt will see this and illuminate us both? John
