[O] couple questions about simple todo

[scrawler]

Hi guys,

Pardon the baby-level questions.

With a file that looks like this:

#+startup: align nologdone showall
#+todo: next doing finished

* All to Do
** [2015-08-11 Tue] [1/1]
*** finished iron the cat

How can I enter the date stamp so that it is neither active nor inactive? I 
don't want a link to the agenda, and I'd like it to look like a heading.

also, what's the difference between "doing finished" and "doing | finished"
the pipe character doesn't seem to affect anything.

Thanks.
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