hi folks: Dendron Doctor: fix frontmatter. Any gotchas there? it was working recently, but now when I invoke it within a document, nothing happens. The scenario is an MD file created outside of Dendron, but brought into the environment doesn't have the Dendron YAML frontmatter. I had thought a way to standardize it and acheive some consistency would be to use Doctor: fixFrontmatter

the Calling doctor messages come and go without reporting error, but no frontmatter is added

Is the note in your vscode workspace and vault?

yep

Just to make sure you're not just opening it as a file - it needs to actually be imported into the workspace. Okay, will check to see if I can repro...

it is in a folder in the vault -- would that make a difference

checking this ... the vanilla doctor command just worked on the latest

bingo -- i moved it out of vault and it worked

sorry i moved it from folder within vault to vault and it worked

I guess the Doctor doesn't do house calls

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HA ... you get one pun @User 😛 you're now on thin ice

so i just created a PARA structure with folders in vault and was moving docs around. This doc has no frontmatter as it preexisted my Dendron inception date. I tried to add frontmatter from the Projects folder -- no love. Moved it back to vault, and it worked

is that expected or should i create issue

hmm... everything else w/ Dendron was working in the folder structure right? i.e. indexing/querying etc.?

i actually hand't pushed beyond moving the docs into folders and trying to add frontmatter

querying looks fine

The thing is... having things in separate folders isn't really a supported scenario. I remember I used to have my setup like this and most things worked.

just tested it

oh really? ok

I am not sure i am sold on folders -- I really prefer the hierarchy only in file names idea

Yeah, our longer term plan around folders is documented in this issue: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/210#issuecomment-813057609

I am doing BASB class and thought it would be visually less intimidating to organize into folders for sharing. I think I coulds get to the same place by creating an MOC or something like that as a doc though and just showing that

We'd like it to be compatible with a folder structure if you need it but it will still involve some auto-export/importing.

oh cool - is it Tiago's?

yeah

people are asking me Obsidian v Dendron v Joplin questions so I am jumping back and forth across the same file structure. Probably not a great idea, but I don't seem to have broken anything yet

it does seem to be true that the alias syntax is inverted between Obsidian and Dendron, so that is a gotcha

and I have discovered the Dataview plugin in Obsidian which is very very cool, but relies on certain formats for tags that I don't think align with Dendron's tagging philosophy (though I prefer the Dendron philosophy)

anyhow, thanks for your help