reply to deleted u/Ellebellemig comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1c4kaps/giving_you_notes_a_unique_id_the_debate_continues/kzqf7rz/?context=3

I was having a new look at (NotionApp I think) and notished a comment I made when I originally tested the app. I was told the comment was made ‘2 years ago’, with no way to see the actual date and time.

Most apps simply steal your datetime and tell you a story about it. ‘3 days ago’. But is that friday or thursday ?

Filesystems - and apps- cant be trusted on system datetime. With datetime in title and text you have an UID. You wont be blind later, and can freely move between apps and different OS.

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I'll grant you that there are certainly applications which are poorly designed for use as tools within the zettelkasten space and don't take these things into account well (or at all). But your issue is sheerly backstop to duct tape over their poor design and in general is unlikely to provide you (or others without the knowledge or ability) with a better user interface in the case that you're looking for a timeline of notes. (Incidentally, in many web or related applications including Notion, hovering over the '3 days ago' title with your mouse will display a hover text with the exact date/time stamp.)

The entire point of the question is that this sort of functionality should be basic table stakes for any note taking application. Yet here we are several years into an armada of new note taking applications, many of which are being used for zettelkasten or zettelkasten-like functionality which don't have this most basic feature built into them.

So again, this issue (and the issue of accidentally overwriting a file by giving it the same name as a pre-existing file) aside, one has to ask, what direct affordance does providing a date/time stamp in a title or file name provide???