Change export or sync file names to include date?

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Is there any way to add a date (or custom text) rather than a number to the export or sync file name?

For instance:

  • Angel at the Gate [2021.10.05].txt

I added almost 500 of my poems to Scrivener to sort and categorise them, with a custom column displaying the date on which they were each written.

However, when exporting them, I realised that they were indexed by timestamp in my mind, rather than the title (which was often added later and in passing). That is, if the date is how I remember them, so when I am putting together a collections of poems to submit, publish, or perform, I will recall that I wrote a poem to a certain theme or context at a certain location, remembering when I was last at that location, then look through my files for the poems from that time. Having the dates in Scrivener works only when I am near my licenced computer, my home PC.

It would be nice to be able to open up my export folder, search for a date and pull up a selection of files. Is this possible?

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Hi.

Export has an option to export metadata. I never used it as such, but perhaps you could run a test to see if it also exports custom metadata, and if so, put your date there.

Personally, given your description and the fact that your files don’t always get a title right away, in the binder itself I would prefix my titles with (or have it as the title, if none yet) a six digits date format.
⮚⮚ You’d have your exported files sorted, no matter where.

250928 Working title

You could even put that date between specific brackets (not in use elsewhere), so that a Regex could remove this date/prefix from compile if needed.
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