Re: [Orgmode] wish list: sort tasks by age

[David Maus]

At Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:04:39 -0400,
Christopher League wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, I'm not a elisp hacker but what comes into my mind is a custom
function that does:

for all headlines with a TODO keyword

* check if property "creation-time" exists

* add propertie creation time with current date & time if such an
  propertie does not exist

and then hook this function into before-save-hook.

So the question is (a) if there are functions to process all items,
check for existence of a property and create properties (I'm quite
certain there are) and (b) how to use them.

Regards,

  -- David
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