I currently have 1808 *.md files in my wiki repo... the other thing I like about Dendron is it will give me an excuse to brush up on my TypeScript... useful tools are the easiest way to get involved

@User Is there a way to enable

Create note from the selection

when creating new journal page ? I've used it when creating "normal" notes (works automatically i something is selected) but does not work when creating Daily journal. As a part of BuJo workflow, I copy all the tasks from yesterday into today's journal (carry forward) and remove the once that are done. For now, I'm doing manual copy/paste - which would have been OK, if I didn't know of

create note from selection

feature 😄

yes, this will happen if you create a regular journal note (cmd+shift+j or select the journal icon during lookup). it doesn't work for daily journal notes yet

Whenever I try to do the site preview the browser gives a "cannot GET /" error. I found the troubleshooting page and ran the 2 commands for killing other processes using port 8080, and there was 1 process I killed (I think it might have been dendron, had to restart it, but all is fine now). Anyways, the site preview still isn't working. Does anyone know of something else I could try? ❓

Anyone ever split an existing markdown file (long complex multi-level) into small chunks while creating filenames (H1.H2) and frontmatter that retains the levels and order so that it "just works" in dendron?

my guess is you have a note with with multiple headings that have multiple sub headings. my question is what do you want as a result? having your Origin note become something that references the Headings you extracted. Or should it just link to the headings you Extracted? Depending on which the case is you may need to do different things

@User yes, starting with a single note (multiple headings/subheadings), I'd like a set of notes, eg origin, origin.introduction, origin.installing, origin.using, etc... and retain the order of those notes - origin.md would be deleted afterwards - make sense?

Lets say the following would be your start point

md
---
id: 9db8fded-377e-47e8-8b99-c8e2f1ebf756
title: Origin
desc: ''
updated: 1615198274813
created: 1615198156854
---

## Intro

### first

### second

### third

## Installing

### first

### second

### third

## Usage

### first

### second

### third

## Test

### first

### second

### third

and you want to extract the H2 into their own notes with the following file structure

md
- origin.intro.md
- origin.installing.md
- origin.usage.md
- origin.test.md

I see one problem the Order would change since you have Alphabetical Ordering of filenames. What you could do is either add a order number in front of the Title like

md
- origin.01-intro.md
- origin.02-installing.md
- origin.03-usage.md
- origin.04-test.md

then you could add the following into the Origin.md to have the File like the Original.md before.

md
![[origin.*]]

Or you look at https://dendron.so/notes/e4ea4fe3-0350-492e-863a-687d9fc15993.html to use the collection to have it like a blog category that is ordered by the created date. Would mean that you need to create the notes in the Order you want.

... okay it didn't take the spoilers....

sorry for the wall of text

that's interesting about blog category, I was thinking of nav_order as per https://dendron.so/notes/f2ed8639-a604-4a9d-b76c-41e205fb8713.html#nav_order

probably the nav_order is the better bet then but no idea about how to handle that xD

i reckon i could script it, just wondering if anyone has done it before?

This is a left field answer... Have you considered collapsing sections using the shortcut keys? You can quickly collapse all H1 or H2 headings etc.. and use the Outline window to navigate around your large document (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30067767/how-do-i-collapse-sections-of-code-in-visual-studio-code-for-windows) (For those following my AsciiDoc comments, this is a perfect example of how AsciiDoc deals with this situation elegantly "out of the box": https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/directives/include/) You might be able to hijack the Nunjack

include

function to get close to what you are after. (I haven't tried this, so not sure it will even work... but worth a try) https://dendron.so/notes/ba97866b-889f-4ac6-86e7-bb2d97f6e376.html#nunjuck-templates https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html#include

thanks @User I'll look into that, but my understanding is that schemas only apply to files, not headings, is that right?

I wanna split origin.md to explore schemas

> I wanna split origin.md to explore schemas I don't fully understand your use case. I thought you wanted to manage large documents by splitting them into smaller ones. What are you trying to achieve with schemas? Could it be that the document covered one topic and each heading is a sub-topic? Over time, when your sub-topics grow, and become too large, you want to move them to their own file?

I wanna refactor a large doc, see if I can apply a schema to it. It's just an experiment, nothing critical, more wondering if anyone has already done that.

Happy to wonder with you 🙂 . Just not sure I fully understand your ultimate objective. You can refactor portions of a document into another new document, but do you want the content of the children to show up in the parent document?

no, I want distinguish between 'topics' that fit into schema and the more arbitrary files that will exist after the split. My reading of schemas is that dendron will help me in that task - presentation is not a concern at this point. Supposing I can identify that 40% of the topics fit the schema, I could then target the other 60% and say 'Some of that content should be rewritten to fit the schema'

(dunno if i'm making sense at this point 😃 )

😄 All good. Yes that is a good use case. You can select the text you want to move to a new file and then use the lookup shortcut "CTRL + L" to create a new document with an approved schema. Only the text you selected will be moved to the new document. https://dendron.so/notes/ad270a7d-2aed-4273-8319-eb6536e38b29.html

got it, make the schema first, and dendron helps you split as you work thru the doc, set nav_order as you go - semi-automatic rather than a scripted solution

quick question, didn't find it looking on the site, but what about file storage thta could be referenced w/in a note or journal entry? like .xls or .pdf - is there a good place to sequester those in the directory structure?

assets would be the place to go

ah ok like an

assets/pdf

or

assets/xls

etc

will try out

another qq, where can I customize the daily notes frontmatter? essentially give me

title: 'DAILY NOTES Mon March 8th, 2021'

for ex

I don't think that is possible atm

since the fm title would be dynamic on creation and templates are not their yet