Notes: Why not dates?

I considered using date-based schemas for the paths, such as 2020-04-10-0.md or just 2004100.md. Proponents of this approach emphasize the advantage of knowing when a note was created.

I decided to opt for the simpler 3-characters approach to keep the friction (of refering to notes) slightly lower.

Furthermore, I felt that metainformation about a note’s creation and access is important enough to deserve additional mechanisms and, once these mechanisms are in place, embedding this in the note’s title is superfluous.