[SOLVED] [REQUEST] add seconds to auto title

sylvaticus

I often found myself creating more than one file with the same name within a minute, so I created a TextExpander snippet that creates yyyymmddhhmmss for a unique ID. That’s become my standard. Obviously I can manually name new notes instead of using the auto name feature, but if possible, can we have an option to add seconds too?

If we wanted to get fancy, perhaps down the road there could be boxes for us to type personalized prefixes and suffixes to the yyyymm….

ctietze

Yeah, customizing the ID scheme is on our list of things we'll discuss when the major problems are solved, so we're aware of this

pl0

I wanted to ask if its possible to get each new note to have seconds added to time stamp. Currently its just year-month-day-hour-minute.

With seconds you could be certain of unique identifier. Unless you’re an extremely fast worker.

Best regards

Peter

pl0

OK I guess I can just use TextExpander on Mac OS.
On iOS I use 1Writer which allows YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. iA Writer similarly clever.

ctietze

Customizations for the identifiers like this are on our to-do list!

ctietze

(I merged two topics)

@pl0 @sylvaticus You can now customize this as a hidden preference as of v1.7.15 (2024-07-11):
https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/help/#hidden-preferences