Re: date added into logbook?

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Michael C Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org> wrote:
> On May 28, 2012, at 12:56 PM, John Hendy wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Michael Gilbert <mcg@gilbert.org> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> — Michael
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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