Thanks for writing this up :) I also added this to our dev documents here to track the salient points of this dicussion: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron-template/blob/master/vault/dendron.dev.design.files-vs-folders.md#L25:L25 I agree that moving to folders will simplify integrating with existing tool chain around files/folders. I think there are workarounds we can implement to smooth over the differences but they will be workarounds at the end of the day. Moving from files to folders will be a significant development effort without any immediate change in functionality so I'm just wary about undertaking this until we have more resources or a significant portion of the community wants this change. As part of the deliverables for this month, I want to make the dendron roadmap public and open it up for voting. @User , can you create an issue for this as well and link it to the design docs? Maybe we can do a vscode thing where if enough people vote for it, then we'll take it on. Some additional questions: - if we do switch to folders, is it worth keeping the

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syntax at all? have it as a legacy fallback and slowly deprecate? - if we switch to folders, do we also switch the lookup syntax to use '/' instead of '.'? @User as part of the search, I believe you can achieve the same using '/' instead of '*'