Lost Date Created Information During Import

[Bjb]

When importing files to Drafts, the original date created information was lost. The newly imported drafts all have a date created based on the date of the import.

The newly imported drafts all have the date they were originally created in their third line, such as:

This is the title

June 6, 2020

Is it possible to sort all drafts within a workspace based on a line other than the title? If that is not possible, is there a way to change the Date Created information for a draft?

[sylumer]

See this thread for Greg’s workaround on setting the date on an import.

How to preserve create time and modification time while importing?

How to preserve create time and modification time while importing? I have lots of “md” files created by iA Writer, and I would like to importing all of them to Drafts. But the only problem is all these drafts would be “created” now, which ruined my review process and workflow on my drafts. I would like the “created” and “modified” timestamp to be the same as the file’s info. I tried use “automatic import” feature, and the “scripting” too. The “FileManager” class does not have any method to re…