I searched in many places for a simple way to insert a timestamp in any tiddler that I have open for editing. I have the Shiraz Formatter subplugin installed in myTiddlyWiki Node.js edition and I tried to do something with the Snippets button, but it was not successful. The best I could do was to …

sometimes it’s just a matter of that first few steps and things start to fall in place. Here is my date-stamp tid - just tested and this alone will add the button to the toolbar caption: date-stamp condition: [<targetTiddler>!has[type]] [<targetTiddler>type[text/vnd.tiddlywiki]] description: Inser…

The implementation I have (button in the editor toolbar, and hotkey (I use ctrl-d because it’s my tomboy/gnote muscle memory) is based off the thread linked below, though I simplified it a little - removing all the “signature” stuff and just making it about timestamps \define date-stamp() $(datetim…

I think I must pivot here. I cannot find a practical way to add a button to the text editing toolbar. The one with bold, italics etc. buttons. It’s been impossible even on an empty single file HTML TiddlyWiki. Very frustrating.

the solution in the linked thread adds an icon to the editing toolbar. The key bit is this: Tag it with $:/tags/EditorToolbar And the various tags (condition, description, icon, etc) control various aspects of the toolbar icon (condition sets which tid types it appears for. description sets the …

Thank you for your help. I’m at a dead end. :woozy_face:

Thank you. I’ll try it tomorrow!

perhaps this will help a bit [image] Different implementation of custom buttons for different toolbars I was reviewing my notes about subj and found out that my draft from this thread Documentation about toolbars is not accurate. I can have an Edit toolbar (…

I actually implement this outside of Tiddlywiki. For example, in Ubuntu go to Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Custom Shortcuts. I bind the f5 function key to this command, so while editing, pressing f5 will output the timestamp. Presumably for each OS there are options for this, or eve…

Thank you for the suggestion. I use TUXEDO OS with KDE Plasma so this should work, but I would have to install xclip. I learned something new today. :slightly_smiling_face:

I didn’t make it clear, but after you run this command (say via pressing f5 as in my example), the clipboard now has the timestamp value, so you are free to paste its value (ie, control-V) to put it into Tiddlywiki’s text input.

A simple way to insert a timestamp?

vuk September 30, 2025, 5:53pm 8

perhaps this will help a bit