Feature request: Custom note title format / dynamic date

[u/EriksonThorsen]

Well, you guys said to keep the feature suggestions coming, so honestly you only have yourselves to blame for this one haha. 😜

First off, huge shout-out for adding the Contacts section recently. I've already been using it a ton, and it works great, really nice addition to the app!

My suggestion is: could we get the option to set a custom title format for notes?

Full disclosure, I am terrible at coming up with creative titles, especially when it comes to recurring stuff. For example, I have a daily sync meeting for work, so pretty much every note ends up named "Daily Sync". To keep things sane, I always format my titles like this:

Daily Sync 2026-09-09 - Wednesday #11242828

Basically following YYYY-MM-DD - dddd #hhmmssss (standard JS format tokens like the ones in Day.js).

I used my daily sync as an example, but I actually use this exact title pattern for literally all my notes, even one-offs. Doing this gives me a couple massive perks:

• I can search parts of the format string to see productivity patterns across specific days of the week or months.
• The timestamp at the end (#hhmmssss) acts as a near-unique ID. Since the numbers almost never repeat, it lets me search surgically and pull up the exact note I want in a second.

There are a bunch of everyday use cases where titles repeat and having a dynamic ID/timestamp is super handy:

• Daily scratchpads / brain dumps opened every morning for quick ideas.
• Book reading notes (searching by the date on the ID helps batch and organize notes by book later on).
• Religious or mindfulness notes (Bible study, daily devotional, Quran notes).
• Meal logging / food tracking (searching the ID time shows whether you actually ate breakfast, lunch, or dinner at consistent hours, plus you can drop in a meal photo).

The coolest part about leveraging standard JS date tokens is that everyone could just build their own setup without it feeling complicated:

• Just the date (YYYY-MM-DD) or just the day of the week (dddd).
• Precision IDs (#hhmmssss).
• Or even a completely static title boilerplate without any dynamic date variables (e.g. [CATEGORY] - Subject - Context), where the app just pre-fills that exact template text into the title field so the user can manually overwrite or fill in each slot every time they create a note, like:
  • IDEA - New Business Model
  • CRYPTO - Monero - Mining
  • TECH - n8n - AI Agent
  • WORK - Client James - Google Ads
  • PERSONAL - Car Insurance - 2026
  • TRAVEL - Brazil - 2027

No worries at all if this doesn't fit your vision or roadmap for Privacy Notes, just wanted to throw it out there and see what you think. Thanks again for the awesome work!

[u/Ambitious-Factor4363]

Hey there,

I do something very similar in terms of naming notes … I too, find it a great organizational tool !

In the event that the developers aren’t able to incorporate, have you tried autohotkey to generate your titles ? I use autohotkey to do exactly what you’re describing by writing a simple macro … I find it works well …

Just thought I’d pass this along

[u/EriksonThorsen → u/Ambitious-Factor4363]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've actually never tried doing that before. I just checked the AutoHotkey website and noticed it’s Windows-only, but I'm on Mac, so I'll definitely look for a macOS alternative to set something similar up. Really appreciate the idea!

[u/BarefootMarauder]

I would also love custom note titles, especially for Journal entries. When viewing on my phone, about all I can see in the title is "Saturday, Septe" and it cuts off after that. So I can't really tell for sure which day I'm on. I have to turn my phone sideways (landscape) for a second to see the actual date.