Should date and datetime properties create journal entries?

Questions & Help
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When I use the date or datetime property types on a node, a corresponding journal entry is generated for the given date. Is this by design?

In some cases, this is quite convenient. However, if those property types are used to track dates of birth, death, or other significant events, then the journal gets flooded with a lot of empty entries from times before I was born.

I am curious if this is the intended behavior, and if so, what is the proper usage? Would it be better to track miscellaneous dates as numbers (e.g. 20251202)?

Thanks!

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It is by design.

For the use case you mentioned, you could create a property with type text and then add 20251202 if you do not want the date functionality. This is the only option I could think of.

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Thank you!

Out of curiosity, what sorts of properties are folks using the date/datetime type with typically? The only obvious thing that comes to mind is scheduling. It seems like a nifty feature :slight_smile: