Hi,
I love to have file names starting with the date (yyyyMMdd), blank, original name. I have written a service in Automator, but is there something similar in DT3?
Cheers
Goetz
I use an applescript to process notes in the Inbox database
The process includes assigning note title with a date prefix
I added an icon in the DT3 top menu bar to trigger the script
Naming files this way has been discussed numerous times in the forum. There’s probably a thread that helps you to get what you want.
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I’m not a wizzard. If you could share that script that would be great.
If you’re maintenancing some files, select the files and choose Tools > Batch Process with this action, like so…
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Here’s a sample script
set yyyymmdd to FormatDate()
tell application id "DNtp"
set selectedNotes to get selection
repeat with selectedNote in selectedNotes
set name of selectedNote to yyyymmdd & " " & name of selectedNote
set theFilingGroup to get record at "/🗂Filing" in database "Devonthink"
set theNote to move record selectedNote to theFilingGroup
end repeat
end tell
on FormatDate()
set {year:yyyy, month:mmm, day:d, weekday:dddd} to (current date)
set dd to ("0" & d as string)
set dd to (text -2 thru -1 of dd) as string
set m to mmm as integer
set mm to ("0" & m as string)
set mm to (text -2 thru -1 of mm) as string
set yyyymmdd to (yyyy as string) & "-" & mm & "-" & dd
return yyyymmdd
end FormatDate
That looks like a complexity which I can handle 
But how do I get Year, Month, Day to be accepted as variables?
I have a solution: %shortDate%-%time% before the Name. Not so impressing, but it works;-) Eventhough it is only the time of change and not the creation time.
Control-click in the text field and choose Insert Placeholder > Creation Date > Year, then Month, then Day.
Thank you so much. I used Short Creation Date-Creation Time Name and had the result I wanted.
I just have to learn the couple of thousands tricks 
You’re welcome and enjoy the discovery 