New plugin - Obsidian date in metadata

Add automatically date and time on file creation

Hello everyone,

I just released my new plugin, obsidian-date-in-metadata that automatically insert date and time on file creation (regardless of the trigger, from a link, a keyboard shortcut, or whatever…).

I don’t know if such a feature already exists, I don’t think so (I’ve already searched a lot).

But here it is, it solves a problem I had for a long time (I’m on linux, so no creation date for my files…)

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I’ve been using Update Time on Edit for ages. It will make sure the file creation date is placed in the YAML and will also update the last date edited.

Yeah I heard about that. It doesn’t really work for me. It messes with my frontmatter.

  • it logs everything in the console and it’s awful when you want to debug, just too noisy,

  • it keeps updating even when you disable the plugin, which doesn’t respect the plugin review

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It’s been working perfectly for me, but it’s nice to see another plugin added to the community :slight_smile: