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From: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: suggestion: automatically recording entry creation date
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:13:51 -0400
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A frequently-needed task is to find recently created entries.  Right
now I do this by manually pasting a date into each entry,
and using the timeline agenda.
Maybe, there are better ways?  E.g. have the option to automatically
record a property, "Creation-date", when an entry is created.
There would be much clutter if every entry had a :PROPERTIES: line.
But maybe there could be an option to hide the :PROPERTIES:
lines completely, unless it contained some user-defined properties.

Or, creation date could be stored as a text property, to avoid
clutter, for long-running emacs sessions.   But it would be lost when
the file is closed.
Maybe at file-closing time it could be converted to a normal property
in the :PROPERTIES: drawer.

Or maybe there are other options?

ilya