Use case or problem
The original creation timestamp of my notes have been lost, and the file system I’m using doesn’t support creating custom creation timestamps. Due to this, and the fact the graph view timelapse animation orders notes only by the creation timestamp, the timelapse isn’t ordered correctly.
Proposed solution
Allow the user to customize the ordering of the graph view timelapse animation. For my use case, allow for ordering by timestamp, with a frontmatter property as the source.
As well as this, there’d be use in allowing other ordering strategies (numerical, alphabetical), ordering directions (forwards, backwards), and data sources.
Some data sources could include:
- File metadata (modified timestamp, accessed timestamp)
- Note name
- Note property value (non-list properties)
- Note list property size (for example, number of tags)
Current workaround (optional)
Currently, the only workaround is to overwrite the file’s creation timestamp, but that only works on file systems that support it, which the one I’m using doesn’t.