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by knighthack 453 days ago
I really don't get how this can't be emulated with the F5 key, or something like Sublime Text's InsertDate package, or a text expansion software. What does this note taking provide that's any different?
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the approach here was to combine the simplicity of apple notes, working across devices, with the automatic time-stamping found in the desktop ecosystem of tools.

Obsidian/SublimeText users are probably not the target audience for this :)

Yeah, this seems like an Obsidian package waiting to happen.
Obsidian already has this, super-D for date, super-T for time, trivial to add inline as you go, if using a single-note approach. And any new note automatically captures its time of creation and last-edited time.
having to hit an extra key and miss out on cross-device syncing sound like two great reasons to not emulate this in anything else
That you might end up having to pay for it and have your notes taken hostage.