Change note creation date

Karjala · 2021-10-10T00:42:49.513Z

How to change the note creation date?

Some thoughts on using Roam as an Obsidian person / Questions for Roam Refugees Knowledge management

Can you tell me specifically what you tried? I only had 33 journal entries to fix at the time, so I just wrote out the commands by hand in a text editor, and then ran them. Example, I went to my daily notes directory and ran: touch -t 202007220130 2020-07-22_Wednesday.md That sets the date to 2020, 07, 22, 1:30am If you had 100s of notes you could use Python to format those commands, and then run them automatically. Or have Python print them out, and then run them yourself in your terminal.…

4lch4 · 2021-10-10T12:04:32.338Z

I’m not sure I follow what you’re saying… You should be able to just change the date in the front matter, right?

Or are you wanting to change the creation date that the OS uses? If so, that’d be fairly straightforward with a script to read the content, create a new file for the date in question, and populate it with the content you previously pulled.

rigmarole · 2021-10-10T18:42:54.374Z

I’m also not sure what you’re saying. There is not enough info in your question. What OS are you using, for starters? What have you tried?

In the link, I said I used the touch command. It’s a command-line tool. It is not in Obsidian.

system · 2021-11-09T18:43:03.103Z

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