Allow customizable date format for daily jots

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• 14 Feb, '24
  Lucian System

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  "Day of the Week shown with the default date, and that date as ISO (yyyy-mm-dd)" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 28 Dec, '20
  Nick C Merged

  The options for sorting daily jots are helpful for when they're created or when they were last edited. However, because of the naming scheme, there's no way to sort them by date of title - alphabetically doesn't work for this.
  
  For example, as I've been importing a bunch of lessons, sermons, lectures etc, I've been adding the date that I presented them (sometimes years ago) and adding the daily jots tag. But when I sort, they only come up on the day that I created the note.
  
  As a simple stopgap, I would suggest that if the daily jots automatically began with the 8 digit date format (20171225 for Christmas Day 2017, for example) then we could sort alphabetically to get this functionality. Moving forward, maybe putting the 8 digit date as an invisible tag would allow sorting by the same method?

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• 15 Jan, '21
  Brian Cohen System

  "Sort daily jots by date of note title" (suggested by Nick C on 2020-12-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 25 Sep, '21
  MK Merged

  the name of daily-jots is focused on American/ English users; the global ISO format for dates is YYYY-MM-DD; there should be a customization option to switch to the ISO format

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• 29 Sep, '21
  Lucian System

  "Enable ISO Format for dates (YYYY-MM-DD) / daily-jots" (suggested by MK on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 12 Jan, '22
  Mike

  In addition to ISO format, I would like the flexibility of adding the day of the week to the title of the Daily Jots. This helps me when looking back over previous daily-jots so I know what day of the week something happened. e.g. "YYYY-MM-DD ddd" for today would be "2022-01-11 Tue"
  The day of the week is important to me, mostly so I know if something happened mid-week or on the weekend.

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• 21 Jul, '22
  John Smith Merged

  ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD) have a lot of good properties, like being able to search for incrementally narrower chunks of time and being ordered properly. There should be an option to format jot titles as ISO dates.

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• 25 Aug, '22
  Wime8 Merged

  Dates are formatted MONTH day, year
  Numbers have a . [period] as a decimal separator.
  It would be nice to switch them to local formats, for example "day.month.year" for date, and a comma separator for numbers (i.e. 476,50)

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• 11 Jan, '23
  Curtis Long

  It would be a positive move for Amplenote to recognize that a user's "normal" and comfortable date format is regional and very personal.
  
  - As MK suggested, the current format serves US English-speakers only (https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/16/why-do-americans-write-the-month-before-the-day).
  - As the OP points out, this format eliminates the ability to sort by title, which is kind of a big deal for hard-core note-takers. For example, a YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD format is fundamental for Zettelkasten numbering system users (and YYYYMMDDHHHH is possibly even more fundamental).
  - Just FYI, Obsidian by default creates a new empty Daily note in the YYYY-MM-DD format, but that format is completely user-editable, using the Moment.js format reference. (However, Moment.js recommends using these more modern alternatives: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/recommendations/)
  
  It's encouraging to see that this is feature request is under consideration!

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• 10 Jun, '23
  Alicson

  Is it possible yet to customize the date format? @2023-06-09 Seems rather essential in a journal-related productivity app?

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• 28 Aug, '23
  John Smith Merged

  One idea for this would also be to allow jots to be automatically assigned to a years-and-months tag structure, like:
  #2023
  #2023/01
  #2023/02
  
  etc.

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• 28 Aug, '23
  John Smith

  ISO dates are love, ISO dates are life. Give me ISO dates or give me death :P
  
  It'd also allow making easy autotagging for jots so they get bucketed into eg.
  #2023/01
  #2023/02
  #2023/03
  
  and so on.

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• 29 Aug, '23
  Aje Merged

  Or maybe yyyy-mm-dd, please!

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• 24 Jan, '24
  Nigel Rees Merged

  Please change Jot's default date's format (example for today)
  from 'January 24th, 2024'
  to '2024-01-24, Wednesday' ... or '2024-01-24, Wed'
  Others, too, have requested ISO sequence for dates.
  Why? Often tasks are dependent upon Day-of-the-week so it's good to be able to see it without checking with the calendar. One could filter by it, too, seeing, e.g., all 'Wed' activities.

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• 05 Apr, '24
  Jordan Merged

  Absolutely.

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• 13 Jun, '24
  Greg Merged

  Two reasons why this is important:
  - For Amplenote, ISO date format is a key step in enabling language localization to increase adoption beyond English speakers.
  - For users, ISO dates better allow forward-referencing notes. I could create a link to a future daily jot with less friction (1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th; comma/space, letters vs. number pad; etc.)

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• 15 Jul, '24
  Nigel Rees Merged

  I swear I've requested this many times. Only the US (I think) does 07/15/2024 or 07/15/24. ISO's yyyy-mm-dd, so 2024-07-15 is clear, sequences chronologically, and is immediately understandable.

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• 09 Sep, '24
  Krishna

  I am not sure if you can bring this into automatically generated Daily - daily-jots.
  
  You can try some work around which I use.
  
  1. Using the below mentioned plugin, have it added to the first line of your note. Reference Image: "https://images.amplenote.com/c69bcf04-6c0d-11ef-92dc-22d98565c2c0/17fa8de7-2fd9-42cd-86a9-e3cfa10fcca1.png"
  
  2. Same plugin, other way you can use is to use "@{}" and calling the plugin with your date structure set up in the Plugin Settings.
  
  How to do Link: https://www.amplenote.com/help/jots#____Creating_future_daily_Jots
  
  Note: You might want to replace tomorrow or day using the plugin name. And this can only generate today's Jot in your requested format.
  
  Plugin Installation link: https://www.amplenote.com/plugins/qMzEXtAnVzeHR6nDLdWacfDR

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• 16 Oct, '24
  Lucian System

  "Localised date and numberformat" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2022-08-25), including upvotes (11) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 16 Oct, '24
  Lucian System

  "ISO date support" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2022-07-21), including upvotes (38) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.

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