# 2025-12-30

-   I learned about [grease.el](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1pt720m/i_created_greaseel_an_oilnvim_for_emacs/) via [[Emacs News]].
    -   Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
    -   Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
    -   I just tried it, and it's perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam's addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works.  (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven't changed it).
    -   With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated!  Neat.
    -   I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames.  Some people seem to prefer it that way.  But I really don't like filenames being used to store meta information.