Re: [O] are super-hidden technical blocks required?

[Ilya Shlyakhter]

On 8/6/2012 2:16 PM, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> > One common use would be to store the creation & last-modification dates
> > of each entry.  I've tried various ways of doing it and they all were
> > too obtrusive to use on _every_ entry.   Time-stamping of all entries
> > would be extremely useful, just as time-stamping of files is.
> > But I don't want to see the timestamps during normal Org usage.
>
> As a user, if your code is decorating my tree, I want to know it.  If
> you hide it, I'd be mad.   Org is my life in plain text, not WordPerfect
> with reveal-codes.

For decorations that change behavior, e.g. export options or inherited 
properties, sure.
But meta-information such as creation/modification times or unique node 
ids, which do not change behavior and are known to be associated with 
every node, displaying them is a distraction.  If you already know that
every node has a creation time, what is added by seeing a :PROPERTIES: 
line for that node?  If anything, it obscures nodes that do have unique
properties you want to know about.