Note-Taking Apps Still Can't Link and Order Notes Well

Improve support for very large notes - markdown files (greater than 1 MB)

“Maybe something like "start from the MOCs, search before reading, open at most ten notes." [re: Looking for a trustworthy, well-maintained BYOK AI plugin]”

“The Note Tabs plugin is a nice productivity boost. I would like to request the ability to add a note to the tabs, via right click in the Explorer. The Note Tabs plugin, when installed, adds the command "tabsPinNote", my understanding is that it should be possible to call that command, and pass the note name to add to tabs. I am sure the process is more involved than that, but as an example, the plugin "Context Utils" adds a command to pin a note to the tab bar. Similarly, that as an addition to”

“Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into that! [re: Automatic Chapters Screwed Me]”

“I just use a naming system for notes and folders. I used to have an index and use tags, but it didn't work for me. So, the answer to your question is that you shouldn't do or stop doing anything just because someone says so. Do what works best for the way you think. If you're organized and like to spend time cataloging things and connecting notes, use MOCs, but I don't think that works for large vaults. If you want to quickly know where something is and where a note should go whe”

“Each objective note has properties similar to: types: - "[[objectives]]" topics: - "[[work]]" - "[[video games]]" rank: 200 Each topic note: types: - "[[topics]]" They're linked in two categorized dimensions: topic and type. Those enable a base to collect them and group them for you. The rank enables the base to display them in order. You can even edit the rankings from the base, without having to open the notes. Add properties like status , target dat”

“If you create a note per objective, you can use properties to add, e.g., categoriy, area, personal etc. You can link them to a top-node and to other notes with a standard link as well. [re: How to organize notes by different characteristics ?]”

“I want charts inside my notes. Bar, line, pie, written in the markdown so they live with the note and still read fine as plain text. Before I build my own plugin, I'd like to know what you all use. If something already does this well, I'll just use it. What I've found so far: Charts (phibr0). 331k downloads, builds charts from a markdown table or CSV. Last update was about 3 years ago, though. Fancy Charts . Uses ECharts and keeps the data as a readable markdown table. Looks promisin”

Feature Request: Context-Aware Doubt Panels and Pinned Notes for Learning

“Before Submitting [x] I searched open and closed issues and discussions for an existing report. [x] I reproduced this bug on the latest release AND on the current dev branch, right before submitting this report. I did not just check an old version or rely on a check from days ago. [x] I understand that maintainers want a well written issue before any code pull request. [x] This is not a security vulnerability. Installation Method Git Clone Open WebUI Version dev (079fb19e7) Operating System Linu”

“Would you consider having a tool that automatically sorts more relevant (based on what you click more often) and less relevant notes so you can easily delete or archive them yourself? Because idk I feel the need to make something like that [re: Out of all the notes in your vault, how many have you opened a second time?]”

“I’d need to know more about how this is better than a text file, or a notepad? My own preference is plain paper or the back of my notebook. I like to draw. The idea is centred, what do I need to get past point A for step 1. If I include a development point it can link from the main idea but becomes the centre of its own idea point so I can list what it needs. If idea 2 links in to idea 4 like a crossover I can draw on the diagram. If it gets further I take it in to Asana as that lets me use inte”

Review and revise notes. But how?

“Soery but you are wrong on this. Notability does not even has bases plugin nor markdown for typed notes. I already have a bases for pioneers in my academic field and another for my research papers with extracted annotatioms in markdown. Obsidian has what i need for my knowledge corner. These images are stored in .md files. Which i can link on other notes, mini essays and overall hypothesis of my interactions with my files. I can also link them to related academic annotations stored in .md files”

“storing everything as plain markdown files is the biggest selling point here; your notes shouldn't become unusable just because a company changes its pricing or shuts down its servers. [re: Presenting Morrow, an open source, privacy focused, and always free alternative!]”

“Hey — I ran the linked trial at a mobile-sized browser viewport. The sample note persisted after reload, which was clear. One thing that confused me: after choosing Journal + How do you feel?, I landed on a Quote field, so I wasn’t sure whether my selection had applied as intended. I’m building DAWN, a private web reflection tool. I’m looking for one adult (18+) willing to try its five-minute guest experience: one reflection, no signup, then three questions about what they expected, what was unc”

“Just to add another method, you can create a base and paste the tag onto multiple notes at once [re: Tech question: Can inline tags be pushed to YAML properties across the whole vault?]”

“What is wrong The Notebooks Book view is hard to leave. The only way back to editing is a hover Edit button over the note, which you cannot see on touch devices and which is easy to miss. The left sidebar has no entry that goes back to Write mode. How to reproduce Suspected cause The Book view's left navigation lists pages and tags only. The edit entry is a hover affordance over the content in packages/notebooks/src/frontend/[id]/ components/book/ . Proposal Add a persistent Bearbeiten item to t”

“It would be useful, when tidying the markdown, if white space and empty lines preceding the first line with content were cleared. Or possibly, to make it an option in Settings if there is reason that some users have a use for empty lines preceding the note content. I often find when done editing and having run Markdown Formatter, needing to clear white space at the top of the note—usually a single empty line or two. Probably due to heavy editing and shifting content, and relying on Markdown Form”

“the template creation idea is nice, otherwise you end up with daily notes that dont match the rest [re: Capture to Daily notes from MacBook Shortcut]”

“Compatibility with my existing notes is one thing but it's more about using your system. How hard would it be for me to adapt to this plugin? Is the plugin adaptable enough that it can mold itself to my existing workflow? Or do I have to mold my workflow for the plugin? It's difficult to discern that just from a conceptual level, so I can't say if I'll spend the money. On top of that, I'll be honest, I already have my own automations using Templater and other plugins. For me”

Check the TOC. [re: Capture to Daily notes from MacBook Shortcut]

“Date (you can figure out the date formatting, everyone does it differently) > Text (select variable Date, add .md behind it — [Date].md) > File path[dig down to your Daily Notes folder] > Text field [File Path/Text1] > ask for text (if you have multiple prompts you would like to add, create more “ask for text” fields, add them to another Text field) > Append [either your result, ir the combination of results in your text field] to [File Path/Text1 variable]. I did this with Logseq”

“I mostly use it to get an overview or randomly stumble upon a note I forgot about. But the graph changing every time I reopen it makes it hard for me to locate the note [re: Hello question about the graphs views]”

“I just use a quick keyboard maestro macro that appends whatever I highlight to my daily note, way less friction than a shortcut [re: Capture to Daily notes from MacBook Shortcut]”

“i moved around 600 of mine into RemNote last spring and older items come up without me picking them. i only migrated the stuff i still cared about though, and i tested export first bc long term means i want an exit door [re: 900 Notion toggles, zero idea when im supposed to review any of them]”

“not sure about the cool plugin one you have but: Local graph is always better on a practical use, BUT finding orphan notes, finding untagged notes, and other little things is pretty damn good on the global one. [re: Hello question about the graphs views]”

“for me the graph is mostly a check on my linking. when one note ends up in the middle connected to everything, it usually means i’m linking a topic every time i mention it. i went back and only kept links where a note actually needs the other one to make sense, and the graph cleaned up a lot. with 2000 notes, a big blob might be telling you the same thing. [re: Hello question about the graphs views]”

“Spaced Repetition does let you filter by tags actually, the deck settings have a "Tags to review" field where you can specify which notes get pulled. [re: Like Spaced Repetition but without flashcards]”

“I'm looking for a plugin like Spaced Repetition but without the flashcards part. Spaced Repetition has a Note Review component, which is somewhat in the background. I don't think it gets as much attention as the flashcards component. I'm not interested in flashcards, only in complete note reviews. However, I would like them to be grouped, just like the flashcards. For example, if I'm reviewing chemistry notes, then I don't want them mixed with history notes. So basically I&#3”

“I don't use TaskNotes so am going by the format shown in its ReadMe, in this section: https://github.com/callumalpass/tasknotes#task-structure . Say if it's different than that in practice. Given daily notes named in the format yyyy-MM-dd and timeEntries that span no more than two calendar dates (that is, each entry starts and ends on the same day or consecutive days), use this filter in a base that's "in" the daily note: js timeEntries.filter([value.endTime, value.startTim”

“filter for orphan notes to spot disconnected ideas, this is a useful use case I never thought about despite me doing this multiple time but did not notice that I am using the graph for this, nice, thanks [re: Hello question about the graphs views]”

“Dozens of procedures linking to one property is fine. Open the property's note and the backlinks pane shows every procedure that uses it. We file one note per thing, in folders by type: entities, concepts, sources, syntheses. For you, maybe standards, procedures, properties and sources. When you quote a standard, the excerpt goes in its own source note along with where it came from, so you can check it again years later without digging. Procedure notes get a small table instead of prose: ste”

“I'm not using the graph view now, but over the years, I had several use cases for it: 1) I was using tags as note type (Capacities-like approach) and going back through a ton of old notes. It helped me see which notes weren't tied to tags yet, zoom in and see which one I'm ready to tackle now. Can be done with bases now, I don't think there was the Bases plugin back then. 2) I was using the vault to maintain several foreign languages. Each note had a property "language"”

“I rarely use the global graph view because I find it too cluttered to be useful. The local graph, however, is something I use regularly. It's a quick way to see how the note I'm currently viewing connects to related notes without having to manually scan through the entire document. For example, if I know the information I'm looking for is linked somewhere within a large topic note, I'll open that note and use the local graph to quickly navigate to the specific note I need. It&#39”

“Undo only ever removes the last note. Write twenty notes, notice the third is wrong, and the only way to fix it is to undo seventeen notes and write them all again. There is also no way to see, or reach, the notes already written from inside the writer. Fix A strip of the notes written so far, inside the writer: tap a note to select it; it lights up on the score too with a note selected, a key replaces its pitch, a note value changes its length, the dot toggles its dot, and Rest turns it into a”

“I tried this for a bit, it didn't work nearly as well as expected. The exception is for notes, lists & tables. I could take plenty of notes for things like Doctors appointments, then link related documentation that was stored in a cloud service. It worked more as a hub to organize notes and keep them connected to the files they go to. It maintained accessibility to the actual docs for my family & anyone we need to send something to. It does take a more manual work to link each docume”

“This is what I had assumed would happen for me, but for some reason it is not including the notes within the subfolder. I don't have any other tags selected, and the properties I do have are shared among everything. It is only showcasing the content within the root folder. Edit: I got it to work! I had to do folder "starts with" instead of folder "is" for it to showcase everything. [re: An Inquiry About Bases: Can It Show Subfolders?]”

“I guess I see the point that when a note gets super lengthy you could see them connect together. I think I want to more see the Node graph be represented in a mind map, so I can find relevant notes and topics linked with each other. [re: I made mdmap: edit your Obsidian notes as mind maps]”

“You can do a filter for file.folder contains “library” or begins with if you’d prefer. Id have to check the property name but I’m pretty sure it’s just called folder. Edit: that wont show you the folder but I reckon a custom formula property would work to show that. Edit2: I’m dumb, you can just use the folder property to show the folder haha. Also the filter property is called folder. [re: An Inquiry About Bases: Can It Show Subfolders?]”

“Share link to notes kind of works the best for me. For sw I already use newreleases.io [re: How do you track/remind yourself about new apps you find?]”

“Hi, besides excelidraw, is there any handwriting addon in which I can put images wherever I want in the note? I tried a few without success. Thanks in advance submitted by /u/multim366 [link] [comments]”

“Fortunately this isn't a terrible problem, as i can just use the undo command or just to to another page and back to fix it, but it gets pretty annoying when whatever page i'm in in a few minutes it goes completely blank. The problem seems to be present only in the desktop version, doesn't seem to happen on mobile. I don't even know it the problem might stem from storing the files in iCloud (but that bug didn't happen before) or from an installed plugin, or it might be from a”

“I have a powershell script that I use to send quick notes to Memos. For these things, I just add the tags `#homelab #app #todo` and I have a filter in Memos that filters on those tags. When I install something, I add the pertinent info the Memo and remove the `#todo` tag. When I'm not at my computer, I've thought about writing a Telegram bot that syncs my Saved Messages to Memos automatically, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. [re: How do you track/remind yourself about new ap”

“Hi. I am extremely lazy note taker and all I want is a note taking app that simply suggests a related existing note to whatever i am typing. Example, if i am writing an essay on Carrot, it should have a sidebar which shows all Carrot related notes I've jotted down. I simply cba to backlink or use double brackets while i am noting a thought as it derails my entire chain of thinking. I tried obsidian 's smart suggestions but it crashes more than i can count and it's paid version is rid”

“Maybe the Tag Along plugin helps in this regard. It draws a folder structure from the tags [re: Implied Tags, or Automatic Text Insertion]”

“kbase new places a note in a folder derived from its primary tag. With the default organize root: / , creating a note tagged epic/sales writes it to notes/epic/sales/ . For a flat vault that is usually not wanted, and there is no documented way to turn it off. kbase organize flat exists as a command, but there is no config equivalent that new respects, so new notes keep getting foldered and drift from the rest of the vault. The only way I found to keep new flat is to point organize root at a pre”

“i know this post is old but have you found the shorcut for this? i've been looking around for this exact thing! [re: Is there a keyboard shortcut for opening the page you've just created in the table view of a database?]”

“I agree. OP can create tags from the document list page this way. I also tried opening a 2nd tab to paperless and created a new tab there. It did show up in the working tab, but it was inconsistent (timing issue?). [re: What do you guys use to group documents in Paperless-NGX?]”

“Ah, i should have mentioned I'm not interested in nested tags in the post. Sorry! There may be moments where tags that should be on a note would not necessarily be hierarchical, or could imply too many points of a hierarchy to be worth managing. Using implications instead of hierarchies also force canonical tags instead of being able to reuse tags (helps avoid "Was it parent1/tag or parent2/tag ?"). The pain point I'm seeking to alleviate with this is making tagging things with”

“The constant urge to reorganize my entire folder system at 2am instead of actually using the thing [re: I used Simplenote for 10+ years. I kept leaving it and coming back. Now I'm building my own]”

“For over 10 years I used Simplenote. I kept leaving it and coming back. I left because I wanted a bit more from a notes app. I came back because nothing else was simple, fast, readable, and quick to sync between my computer and my phone. All 4 at once. If an app is slow, you stop writing things down. If sync is late, you stop trusting it. If you don't trust it, you're back to sending messages to yourself. We're in a new era now. It's easier to build the thing you've been miss”

“Exactly! [re: PenDate Notes - your next feature needs more than a backlog entry]”

Setting to remember note's position for Quicklook extension

“I run out of the 6 headers because I like keep my notes in proper hierarchy. So I use h1 for dedicated topic in the note. [re: H1 or not H1... that's the question]”

“I don't, but I always start my note headers at h2 in case I want to add one as a title for export. [re: H1 or not H1... that's the question]”

“I only use it if I have a note with multiple headers. Because then if I wouldn't use one then, the top part would look like it's separate from the "main" note. But if it's just a note about one topic and not very long, I never use any [re: H1 or not H1... that's the question]”

“Thanks, glad it works! A timestamp on quick notes is a good idea and should be easy, probably as an option. For pinning, you can already get close: in settings under Card Appearance, drag your groceries note to the top. Tap a card there to expand it and you can also change its colour and height. The catch is that a brand new note still shows up above it, so it isn't a real pin yet. That part is on my list. And fair point about per-card colours when the widget is a feed of new notes. A defaul”

“I use it for the usual stuff, like summarizing meeting notes and drafting updates, but mostly to split up the projects I'm working on, so each one has its own chats and notes instead of everything landing in one long list in sidebar like Chatgpt for example. I always wanted something like this to help keep it all organized, but couldn't find anyone doing it, so I ended up building it myself (ChatOS, each project is a folder on a canvas, screenshot below). https://preview.redd.it/xvj73zl4”