johnozbay
commented
3 years ago Hi there 👋🏻
Thanks a lot for filing this!
While I can see how this would be useful for some, we can't add this feature for two reasons.
1 – For privacy reasons we don't store the creation timestamp metadata. We only store the last-modified timestamp (which we do, only because we have to, in order to be able to detect changes & facilitate sync between devices correctly when something's edited)
2 – Even if we did store this, it would have to be the date of creation in Cryptee (or the date a file was uploaded to Cryptee) and not the creation date of the file itself. Because just like Cryptee, browsers also don't expose file creation dates for privacy reasons, and instead only expose the last-modified-date.
For your specific use case, I'd recommend putting your diary entries in a folder like "Diary" and renaming the documents like "2021-03-21", "2021-03-22", "2021-03-23" using the ISO date format. That way, when you sort the folder alphabetically, you would always see the documents in the correct day order. (and can later re-sort the folder based on the change date as well if you wish)
I know it's not ideal, but this is one of those privacy / convenience compromises we have to make.
Hoping this makes sense and helps ✌🏻
Best, J
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have hundreds of notes imported from Bear. They’re like a diary so they only make sense when read in order of creation which often differs from change date as occasionally I come back to them and add something new (with a remark of when the change was added right in a note)
Describe the solution you'd like In Bear there’s a sort by creation date which solves my problem so I suggest adding it here as well.
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