[Orgmode] Re: Question about tracking TODO state changes and M-S-ENTER

[Bernt Hansen]

<reordered (and wrapped) the email to remove top-posting>

Keith Swartz <address@hidden> writes:

> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>> On May 26, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Manish wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Keith Swartz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> However, if I use M-S-ENTER to combine the above two steps into
>>>> one (create
>>>> a "TODO" item), it does NOT create an entry in the LOGBOOK for State
>>>> "TODO" from "" at all. Is that a bug?
>>>
>>> IMO, this is not really a state change.
>>
>> In interesting point, and something up for discussion.
>>
>> I personally am neter interesting in recording a time stamp when
>> first switching an item to TODO.  Furthermore, for other state
>> changes I prefer to record a note.
>> However, M-S-RET is really meant for fast adding of one or more TODO
>> entries, and being prompted for a state change note would be really
>> annoying here.
>>
>> Up for discussion, I am willing to install a variable here....
>
> I can see where M-S-ENTER prompting for a status note change would be
> annoying. Personally, I don't use that feature, so I didn't think of
> that -- I'm more interested in the timestamps. Basically, I like being
> able to record /when/ something was first entered as a todo item --
> gives me a good way to see which items are the oldest.
>
> One thought is to record the state change, but default the status note
> to "TODO created", rather than prompting for it.
>
> Then again, maybe a variable is the best answer here, because sooner
> or later, somebody is going to want to change that. Normally, I'd hate
> to add more and more variables just to complicate things, but org-mode
> seems to have no shortage of them. (That's a good thing!) :)

I use org-remember for creating tasks where I want to know the created
time.  I create most of my tasks with the remember interface and it's
easy to put the date in the template with %u.

For me every log entry creates a log drawer and I wouldn't want that by
default for every new task created with M-S-RET.

http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Remember

-Bernt