Personaly I use KeepassXC autotype functionality for this kind of thing (since I’m already using it as a password manager anyway)… I have entries that are just notes and then have the autotype command be: {NOTES}{ENTER} so it types the content of the note and presses enter.

The nice thing is that I can leverage the autotype dialogs from Keepass so I just need to remember 1 shortcut and it will open a dialog showing different Note options based on the title of the window I’m in. It also works across platforms (which is great if at work you still need to use Windows). However, Wayland is still not supported well.

I haven’t tried to use date/time placeholders, but in theory, they are suported in the keepass documentation (no idea if keepassXC in particular supports them): https://keepass.info/help/base/placeholders.html (check out the {CMD:/CommandLine/Options/} placeholder that lets you run arbitrary commands and optionally have their output replace the placeholder, which is very powerful)

In the auto-type docs they also have placeholders that even allow you to add delays, switch active windows, and press all kind of key combinations. Again, I’ve not tested if all of that works in KeepassXC but if not you can always use the official keepass app.

A compositor is normally a component in a DE, not a DE on its own. For it to be a DE in my book the “standalone” installation needs to, at minimum, provide: a launcher to execute apps, a toolbar/statusbar, and maybe a terminal emulator (or at least call some generic wrapper to automatically hook into one, something like xdg-terminal-exec).

I mean… openbox is used in X11 desktop environments like LXDE… I don’t see why labwc (essentially wayland’s openbox) should be treated like it cannot be a component of one.

And river has almost as a mission statement to become more of a framework than a DE on its own… they even have the goal in the long term to remove things from it and instead expose more to the commands/API to make it more modular… it’s definitely not something intended to work standalone and they expect people to develop third party layout generator programs.

Maybe sway is the one in that list that might be the most “standalone”, since it does have swaybar built-in… but the default configuration still expects you to provide at least something like dmenu to use as launcher, as well as making sure you have your terminal, etc, since it does not list them as specific dependencies of the sway package, so officially they aren’t really part of sway as if it were a DE suite.