Store a creation timestamp as metadata of a note and use it for sorting

Looks like I have solved this problem for myself as follows.

  • Resize the existing partition containing markdown notes to 2Gb to keep backups small.
  • Move everything else from the /home/user directory to a new partition
  • Mount the 2Gb notes partition on top of the /home/user
  • Create backups of the notes partition using using ddrescue

It took some work, but ultimately this approach might even be superior as I won’t need to worry about managing the dates in text.