James Dyer has a good idea for organizing his org-based notes. It’s simple: add a year tag to each note. It helps to organize the notes and makes it easy to filter them by year.
When he first implemented the system, he simply hard coded the year into the capture template but then, of course, he had to remember to update it every year. We all know what a fragile process that can be. Dyer decided he needed a better way so he looked into generating the year tag programmatically. He found a couple of ways.
They both involved using the format time specifiers. You can take a look at his post for the details but it turns out to be really easy so if you’re interested in doing something similar you should definitely spend a couple of minutes reading his post. It’s another great example of the flexibility of Emacs and Org mode.