Is there a way to insert a "created" and "modified" timestamp on creation/write?

[jmrussell]

Is there a way with the plugin (or another recommended, obsidian friendly way) to record the timestamp a note was created or last modified?

I'm new to the whole obsidian space but I've used nvim for a long time -- I think I could just write an autocmd that writes that information somewhere within the note, but I'd be interested if there's a better solution. Please let me know if I missed a similar discussion, somewhere, I did look but didn't find much.

Really enjoying this plugin, thanks for the great work!

[epwalsh]

Hey @jmrussell, you could accomplish this by configuring a pre_write_note callback in your obsidian.nvim config. For example:

      callbacks = {
        -- Runs right before writing the buffer for a note.
        ---@param client obsidian.Client
        ---@param note obsidian.Note
        ---@diagnostic disable-next-line: unused-local
        pre_write_note = function(client, note)
          note:add_field("modified", os.date())
        end,
      },

[Oneechan69]

@epwalsh I'm using this, but when I press u to undo a change in normal mode, it undoes the frontmatter change rather than the edit I just made. Any ideas for what to do?