I have noticed that when I import a manually written tiddler, no modified date is set, which causes the tiddler not to show up on the Recent Tab. Is there a way for the Import process to auto set create and modified dates when importing?
If a tiddler has a modified field value in the source TiddlyWiki, that value is retained when it is imported into the destination TiddlyWiki.
Perhaps you had “timestamps” turned off when you originally created the tiddler?
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As Eric suggests, you may want this to be optional as in some ways its a critical function to do this. I have hacked a solution that sets an import date, and provides a recent imports tab lists them. It does this without modifying the other dates.
Arguably we could add to the export an export date and source wiki to be more comprehensive. The with all these dates in place we can actually learn a lot about any tiddler.
In most cases, I am away from my computer and I just type up the tiddler in .tid format and send it to myself to import later, which is why a lot of the metadata is missing. Maybe I just need a good way to generate the modified timestamps when I do that.
@michael1 each to their to own approach but TiddlyWiki has a nice User Interface especially for creating and editing tiddlers just “out of the box”. If you have encountered issues that has forced your hand, do ask questions? I have used tiddly host from my phone browser, the mobile apps etc… to support this.
Also when editing a tid file you may be able to enter manually a fieldname and value, often TiddlyWiki timestamps accept partial information eg created: 20260522 and on import/open populates the field.
I recommend Tiddler Commander by @Mohammad (to whom we all send prayers) — which adds batch handling to imported tiddlers, and from there it’s easy to set created/modified values, add tags and field values, etc.