Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind

Re:Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with da... by mhd on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:56AM (#28640403)

Well, the problem with using file names/URLs for unique identifiers is that they might change. So either you don't do that or you need some piece of software to update this. With a note title (and thus file name) of "[2020091149] Conversation about Note Taking on HN", I can just reference the part within brackets, and it also gives me the timestamp if the file metadata ever gets lost in sync.

But yeah, I don't have that many cross references now, this is one part where I'm looking for better solutions that don't depend on too much technology. Thus my Zettelkasten research. Probably will implement a lot of this with scripts and shortcuts (I'm quite fond of tools like Textexpander/atext for this).

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with da... by ricg on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:52AM (#28641153)

Yes, I thought about both scenarios and actually added support for both to my app.

If you rename a note through the app it will go though all other notes and update them to use the new name.

The app also adds datestamps, YYYY-DD-MM, to the file name of each note exactly for the reason you mentioned. File metadata might get lost when copying a file around. The added benefit is that if you sort files alphabetically in Finder, they show up in the order you created them.

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