Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Repeaters on TODOs with notes that contain org-formatted dates causes SCHEDULE line to disappear upon org-todo from commit 481719fbd5751aaa9c672b762cb43aea8ee986b0 onward. Using the attached test.org file, one can reproduce this bug this way: $ cd /path/to/org/mode/upstream/checkout $ git checkout 481719fbd5751aaa9c672b762cb43aea8ee986b0 $ make clean; make $ emacs --no-init In *scratch* buffer: (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/org/mode/upstream/checkout") (load-library "org") C-x C-f test.org C-t d What that yields is the file I attached as 'test-481719-after-ctrl-t-d.org'. As you can see, the entire SCHEDULED line has disappeared. What I expected was 'test-correct-after-ctrl-t-d.org', which I get if I switch the "git checkout" line above to checkout the previous revision in the master branch, which is a709aed145e2e95db60835495126f351828e27dd. While trying to build up this test example to report the bug, I discovered that the existence of "<2015-03-31 Tue>" in the org states are what causes the problem. If you remove the < and > from that line, you get the expected results. I don't believe it's a invalid org-mode format to have a date like that floating around in your org-done-notes, and as such I believe this is a bug. The problem persists through to current master HEAD; it has not been fixed AFAICT in subsequent commits. In fact, the problem is "even worse" when you 'git checkout master' above; you get: Error in post-command-hook (org-add-log-note): (error "Before first headline at position 1 in buffer test.org") And the new "State" line is inserted ABOVE the TODO. See the attached 'test-master-after-ctrl-t-d.org" for that. Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified by Debian Package: Org-mode version 8.3.3 (release_8.3.3-423-g5964b7 @ /path/to/org/mode/upstream/checkout/) current state: ============== (setq org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand) org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook org-babel-speed-command-hook) org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5] #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5] org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes) org-archive-hook '(org-attach-archive-delete-maybe) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer) )