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Hei,
I think the ability to name a note by its current date/time could be beneficial. Using a shortcut or something similar, the note would be named for instance: 202007272311 - title.
There is a lot of awareness on notes these days and I think people take smarter notes using methods like zettelkasten and so forth. I think this feature would attract people who are interested in this (and the great metasection in nvUltra is already very apt to the zettelkasten way of taking notes).
Beste
Olej
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Hey Olej,
This is a great idea.
I do this with TextExpander.
Are you already familiar with Text Expander? For those that aren't...
You'll benefit a lot more by using a tool like TE which functions system wide, rather than just in one program. Anywhere I want to I just type one of my shortcuts and TE inserts the date, time, and many other things I use frequently. More examples... I use all of the following date and time shortcuts every day, in different places:
- ddate — July 27, 2020
- ttime — 9:19:51 PM
- fdt — 2020 0727 2120 (means file date time)
- jdate — July 27, 2020, 9:20:37 PM (my journal entry date and time format)
If you do get into TextExpander, be sure to check out Brett Terpstra's numerous articles showing it's many uses here: https://brettterpstra.com/topic/textexpander/
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Hei Michael,
Yes, I am aware of text expander and that this could be done using a snippet. I was just unsure whether this way of naming files would "mess" something up in the way notes relates to each other in the "connections" part of nvUltra. I tested with a bunch of such files and they where listed as related in the connections tab. This might be because they have this UID inline the note, as I link to other using that identifier and not the title.
Anyway, thanks for the response. I'll do some more testing.
Best
Olej
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olej, I do the same thing that Michael Ryan Norton does, using TextExpander. However, all my dates are expressed as YYYYMMDD, with an optional decimal-delimited time.
- .dd --> 20210308
- .dt → 20210308.1754
In nvAlt, this allows me to search for all dates in the year (2021), or just a month (202103 for March), or just one date (20210308). I can also search for every note with March 8 in it, regardless of year, using 0308.
This is extremely helpful to for "This date in history" type searches to see what I was doing the same day in prior years. I have not begun testing out this search strategy in nvUltra, but I expect to run into some trouble as I don't think it indexes the 0308 portion (maybe ????0308 or *0308?). For now, I run nvAlt alongside nvUltra to do the all-text-in-memory searches that I can't do with Ultra's indexing. Wish we could choose to to enable the nvAlt method (knowing the memory issues).
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