On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 10:07:07 PM UTC-5, andyjim wrote: > > > > On Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 10:13:03 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: >> >> >>> >>> 7. Time Stamp >>> agreed generally. I do want date of origin, and I would like >>> modification dates as well. The vast bulk of my zettels will be extracted >>> from archived files, so I will have to manually enter those dates of origin >>> as I prep those files for the parser. And I want to be able to search the >>> zettelkasten by time stamp as well as (and in combination with) other >>> handles. >>> >> >> I'm not sure what date you will get from an archived file. It will >> depend on the archiving method, I'm sure. Windows will claim the creation >> date is the date a file was created, but that means that a copy you make >> today of a twenty year old file would have a creation date of today. The >> last modified date will show the last time you modified a file, which might >> be that day twenty years ago. What dates might come out of your archive, I >> don't know. >> >> Leo will apply the timestamp of the time you create a node. That can't >> change, because Leo used it internally. >> >> [snip] >> >> I have been misleading in using the word 'archive'. What I've called > archived files are simply Word files in a folder I named 'archive'. They > are not in an archive format. [snip] >
Could you send me an example file? It you typed in a date, you probably did it in a more or less standard way, and maybe we can automate getting it out without you having to handle each and every file. BTW, how many of these files are you talking about? Roughly speaking, of course. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/414b2801-3c67-4c77-9821-7c70165bd4cd%40googlegroups.com.
