I have been tyring to automate the setting of lastmod on Hugo to no avail. I want to capture in a note the last modified timestamp from git, as these notes reside in git repository, and use it within a note. No dice, so far.
Got it to work! It is not using the git timestamp, because it doesn’t really acccurately provide the modification time, but the commit time (two different things). Instead, I am setting the timestamp when the note is opened for edit.
Update: 19 Feb 2026 @ 12:54:44
Nah, I ended up scrapping the above, too much work, and for what? I am using the commit timestamp, and that’s that.
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