[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Timestamping tasks

[Sacha Chua]

John Sullivan <address@hidden> writes:

> I would like to have tasks timestamped so that as they are moved
> forward or copied around, I don't lose track of the date when they
> were originally created.

You could do this the way planner-id adds task IDs, storing the
timestamp in the text of the task itself. Of course, this makes your
tasks even longer, which means you'll probably want font-lock it out
of the way.

Another option is to hook into planner-id so that whenever an ID gets
added to a task, it writes the task ID and timestamp into a separate
file.

> If I could set things up to have the date at the beginning of the
> task description, then maybe I could also set it up so that the
> tasks could be sorted by that date. Not talking a link to the day
> page here, just context information from when the task was created.

That's also perfectly doable. =)

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