A "finished" attribute for notes

[yu-jingrui]

I have always wanted this but see no other talk about this, so putting it here for discussion.
I suppose it should work like this:

After I am done working on a note, a finished attribute is given. The note is no longer editable, meaning it gets a readOnly attribute assigned, with extra information on when it was finished, for example finishedAt={date-time}. This state can of course be reversed, but should have some barriers to it so that it isn't accidentally changed.

The initial reason I want this is that I don't want to accidentally change my day notes without noticing. The temperary solution I am using is to set readOnly for the day template, so that all day notes are by default read-only and I have to manually enter edit mode. The ideal way would be the day note stays in edit mode during the day, and after today it automatically gets finished.

This could also be useful for notes that is related to a specific project. After the project finished, the notes can be set to finished. They are easily identifed as past notes that should not be changed.

Currently readOnly and archived partially works, but they don't fully achieve what I want. readOnly is not deliberate enough. archived does not force readOnly, but excludes the note from search and autocomplete.

[eliandoran]

This can probably be achieved via a script that triggers on attribute change and automatically applies the #readOnly and #finishedAt labels on that particular note.

Since it's pretty specific, I would not implement it as a core part of Trilium.

[capi]

My first gut feeling was also that this should be doable via a script that either runs on change or via a cron job.