Hello! The Problem As one example — When new users are moving from other applications to Anytype, it is likely that they will be creating objects, to replicate the material from their previously used application (e.g. Google Docs). These can include notes, tasks, etc. At the moment, the “Creatio…

Good one. Even better: an option to have AT automatically adjust Creation Date based on imported content.

I actually think there should be an immutable Creation date Relation even when stuff is imported. For imported stuff, a distinction between Import date and Creation date might be helpful, where the Creation date is set to the creation date of the imported Object if such information is shared in the …

While I agree in a lot of cases there should be a difference between file creation and entry creation. There are some types of documents to where the “Creation” of the object is used as part of the object. For example, journaling. Problem is there is no easy way to automatically have a date entered…

A decent workaround I have come up with is creating a new property called entry date.

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND I would like the creation date relation of a Note to be editable. HOW COULD IT BE DONE When you open a note and click on relations, you should be able to click on the value associated with Creation Date and change it. There could also be an ability to revert to the original cr…

We will fix rood cause - importing issues. Newly imported pages will preserve original creation time.

I would also like to change the creation date. For my use case the proposed fix is not a fix at all. I am planing to “import” data from analog sources as well, e.g. journals. Also it is impossible for anytype to offer importers for every possible data source. So the possibility to change the creati…

@shrippen While this isn’t necessarily the solution you’re looking for, if you want a workaround for now you could create text files for all the journal pages you want to import, set the creation and modified dates for those (that might take some googling to figure out depending on your OS), and the…

I would also love to see this happen. I just started using Anytype and I have to manually transfer couple of old handwritten journals. I would really love to get the creation date to original dates. I could set up a new relation as you said, but then I will have to keep doing it for later notes that…

Allow "Creation Date" to be changeable

Feature Requests

Code-Jack January 5, 2024, 11:55pm 14

I made a request some days ago that would fulfill your demand, without the technical problems a real edit of the creation date would cause for the programmers: