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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Automatically insert inactive timestamps
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Andrew J. Korty <ajk@iu.edu> wrote:

> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> 
> > (add-hook 'org-insert-heading-hook 'bh/insert-heading-inactive-timestamp)
> 
> Using org-insert-heading-hook is more elegant than my way, but I only
> want timestamps on TODO entries, so I use
> 

I think you should be able to use org-entry-get in the hook to get the
TODO property of the entry and then conditionally add the timestamp -
something like this:

   (if (equal (org-entry-get (point) "TODO") "TODO")
      add the timestamp

Nick