Dear developers Property drawers for certain items end up getting created within an already existing LOGBOOK drawer. The problem is that the first while loop in org-insert-property-drawer is also matching CLOCK lines within the drawer, so it reads into the drawer instead of stopping before it. I discovered a matching report that was already submitted by Sebastien Vauban (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/78881). Problematic code in org.el: (defun org-insert-property-drawer () ;... (let ((indent (if org-adapt-indentation (- (match-end 0) (match-beginning 0)) 0)) (beg (point)) (re (concat "^[ \t]*" org-keyword-time-regexp)) end hiddenp) (outline-next-heading) (setq end (point)) (goto-char beg) (while (re-search-forward re end t)) ; <=== problem I did a quick fix using the following construct: (let ((indent (if org-adapt-indentation (- (match-end 0) (match-beginning 0)) 0)) (beg (point)) (re (concat "^[ \t]*" org-keyword-time-regexp)) end hiddenp) (outline-next-heading) (setq end (point)) (goto-char beg) (next-line) (while (looking-at re) (next-line)) (setq hiddenp (outline-invisible-p)) ; comment-out: (end-of-line 1) ; comment-out: (and (equal (char-after) ?\n) (forward-char 1)) Here's a typical task, where the original code will fail and place the property drawer just before the end of the LOGBOOK drawer. *** DONE some task CLOSED: [2013-07-10 Wed 14:11] DEADLINE: <2013-06-03 Mon> SCHEDULED: <2013-07-08 Mon> :LOGBOOK: - State "DONE" from "WAIT" [2013-07-10 Wed 14:11] CLOCK: [2013-05-17 Fri 17:07]--[2013-05-17 Fri 17:16] => 0:09 CLOCK: [2013-05-08 Wed 14:30]--[2013-05-08 Wed 15:30] => 1:00 CLOCK: [2013-05-06 Mon 14:55]--[2013-05-06 Mon 15:30] => 0:35 - State "WAIT" from "TODO" [2013-04-03 Wed 14:31] \\ sent mail - State "TODO" from "DONE" [2013-03-20 Wed 11:25] - State "DONE" from "TODO" [2012-11-22 Thu 15:05] CLOCK: [2012-11-22 Thu 14:40]--[2012-11-22 Thu 15:04] => 0:24 - State "TODO" from "" [2012-11-20 Tue 16:14] :END: - bla - some more bla Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2014-01-03 on akhlut, modified by Debian Package: Org-mode version 8.2.4 (8.2.4-18-g4ee7e6-elpaplus @ /home/dfeich/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20131230/) Best regards, Derek