Workaround for iOS caps-sensitive Daily Note format?

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Hey all, this may be a stupid question but I haven’t found a good solution yet.

Context: I am a fan of lowercase, when I can help it, and my own file system seems like a place I can make that aesthetic choice without making anyone’s eye twitch :wink: Or you would think!

The problem:

There isn’t any (as far as I can tell) syntax for date format that specifies, at least for month, lowercase vs uppercase. Right now my date format for daily notes is: [21.]YYYY/MM MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD (ignore that 21, it’s just part of my decimal coding).
Likewise, it will tell me my current syntax looks like “21.2025/04 April/2025-04-04”

I have my months written as such: 04 april, 05 may, etc.

Desktop doesn’t have any problem with this, it recognizes that 04 april and 04 April are the same thing. iOS (and possibly all mobile, can’t speak for Android) … not so much. It totally breaks the “create upon opening” function and if you manually hit ‘go to daily note’ it creates one outside that folder system…sometimes? I have Templater as well, so some testing was prior to Templater and some was after.

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I am working around this issue by having just my months folders be capitalized, however as silly as it is, that makes me a little twitchy since nothing else is (also, it happens to look weird with the header font i’m using huff). I’m happy to go on this way if there’s really no other way to do it, but can I circumvent this somehow?

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Depending on what you use to generate your daily notes, it shouldn’t be that hard to enforce all lower case or similar. So a little more information on what you use to create your daily notes would be helpful. In some cases it could be fruitful to pre-create the month folders with correct casing in a system allowing to do so.