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Automatically add creation date and time to a note. #492

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tnar-git opened this issue Feb 22, 2023 · 1 comment
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Automatically add creation date and time to a note. #492

tnar-git opened this issue Feb 22, 2023 · 1 comment
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enhancement Not a bug, but an interesting suggestion secondary Trivial or impactful, this feature is NOT a priority

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Adding creation date and time metadata to the note would help the app to be used as a way to take quick log notes. Date and time is a simple but valuable piece of information that makes a note relevant; adding creation time to every note manually is cumbersome.

My use case is to use this app as lightweight, quick to open front-end to take quick notes, which could later be used by more advanced pkm apps like org-mode or logseq, because of this app has the wonderful feature of saving its data in plain text format as a .org file.

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Add "creation time" metadata to the note in the org file.

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@tnar-git tnar-git added the enhancement Not a bug, but an interesting suggestion label Feb 22, 2023
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I see 2 ways to implement your suggestion:

  1. when creating a new note from the app, fill the "due date" box with today's date by default: the "due" date acts as "creation" date, they're the same thing
  2. when saving notes as .org files, add the creation date to the note, toghether with the due date. In this case, the 2 dates can have different values

As of now the app already saves the due date in the org file. Our internal database keeps track of 3 dates: "completed", "updated", "due". The easiest way to implement your suggestion, in my opinion, is to consider the due date as creation date. Then we can set the due date automatically, and you have an org files with the content you want.
Is that good enough ? If you want the distinction between "created" and "due" dates, I can add a new column to the database, but this will take more time.

I hope I understood your idea correctly

@CampelloManuel CampelloManuel added the secondary Trivial or impactful, this feature is NOT a priority label Jan 13, 2024
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