[O] Timestamp practices?

[Lawrence Bottorff]

I'm trying to give each header entry a timestamp. To do this I create a drawer like this:

:PROPERTIES:

:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 14:26]

:END:

Initially, I do C-u M-x org-insert-drawer. This gives me 

:PROPERTIES:

:END:

Then I do C-c C-x p and choose CUSTOM-ID. Then I insert a timestamp. Here's what it looks like (expanded):

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*** [[http://www.neo4j.org/][The World's Leading Graph Database]]

:PROPERTIES:

:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 14:26]

:END:

*** [[http://www.manning.com/carlson/][Redis: NoSQL; key-value; in-memory]]

:PROPERTIES:

:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 19:34]

:END:

**** [[http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.com/2011/07/eredis-redis-client-in-emacs-lisp.html][eredis: a Redis client in emacs lisp]]

:PROPERTIES:

:CUSTOM_ID: [2013-03-19 Tue 19:42]

:END:

I'd like to know the best practice for adding such timestamps. Am I gaining anything by enclosing the timestamp in such an elaborate drawer? Are these two commands the best way to do this? Or is there a more automated approach?

In general, I can't help but marvel at the ad-hoc, on-the-fly data management possibilities org-mode offers. It seems like the sky's the limit. But I'd like opinions on whether I'm stumbling along a blind alley.