These toggler stamps are conveniences—they set attributes without having to invoke the Get Info pop-over.

However, due to the magic of prototypal inheritance, a simple stamp, applied to a prototype, can change the appearance (and export: read about $DEExport here) of all your work. For example, applying the ⬍ Show Date stamp to normal_note will prepend the year.month.day to (nearly) every content note in your TBX.