[thewataccount]

TAG EVERYTHING - I'm with the sibling comment. I highly recommend the templater plugin.

Just choose a template immediately that has the creation date, and tags.

Tag your notes, just attempt to be consistent with the tags. Obsidian has some crazy powerful plugins that let you build it to your workflow - but if you start by tagging everything you'll be set moving forward.

I personally like the unique note creator to prepend dates.

Quickadd+Commander lets you make buttons for individual templates. Dataview is also very useful.

It took me two years before I really started personalizing it, I currently have templates for "regular notes", "weekly meeting", and "q/a notes". I'm adding notes to list my #wip as well