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Subject: Re: wish list: sort tasks by age
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Christopher League <league@contrapunctus.net> writes:

> I would love to be able to sort TODOs by their age, so it becomes
> painfully obvious what I have been ignoring.  Since org relies on free- 
> form text (a strength), it's tricky to ensure that every item gets a
> creation-time' property.  But it doesn't need to be accurate to the
> second; even a script that added that property once every day or so
> might do the trick.

Check org-expiry.el in Org's contrib directory, it might do what you
want.  (I still need to write a tutorial about this.)

-- 
 Bastien