This sounds like a case of simple, not easy: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy You could

This sounds like a case of simple, not easy: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy You could add a timestamp to each todo with two changes: https://github.com/swannodette/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/labs/architecture-examples/om/src/todomvc/app.cljs#L101 https://github.com/swannodette/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/labs/ar... (defn handle-new-todo-keydown [e {:keys [todos] :as app} owner] ... (om/update! app [:todos] conj {:id (guid) :title (.-value new-field) :created-at (js/Date.) ;; <-- add this line :completed false :order (count todos)}) ...) https://github.com/swannodette/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/labs/architecture-examples/om/src/todomvc/item.cljs#L48 https://github.com/swannodette/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/labs/ar... (defn todo-item [{:keys [id title editing completed] :as todo} {:keys [comm]}] ... ;; change this line (dom/label #js {:onDoubleClick #(handle-edit % todo m)} (str (:title todo) (:created-at todo))) ...)