the second patch is actually a one-liner, filtering the title through strftime.
+> Something similar was requested in [[todo/more_customisable_titlepage_function]],
+> in which [[Joey]] outlined a similar solution.
+>
+> What's your use-case for not prompting for the title at all? I can see
+> [[madduck]]'s requirement for the title he typed in (say, "foo")
+> being transformed into 2009/07/26/foo or something (I name blog posts
+> like that myself), but I can't quite see the use for *entirely* automatic
+> titles.
+>
+> However, if that's really what you want, I suspect your code could be
+> extended so it also solves madduck's second request on
+> [[todo/more_customisable_titlepage_function]].
+>
+> --[[smcv]]
+
### potential user interaction issues
this has two side effects which have to be considered: first, the empty page