I've had this problem in tech docs. I work with Sphinx for docs on Python projects, and because there is an

.. include::

directive (pretty much like note refs), you can choose to include the contents of the

README

file,

CONTRIBUTING

file,

LICENSE

file, etc. from the root of the repo within a note somewhere in

docs/*

files that ultimately get published to the site. This, among other things, led to me to opening this issue: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/1565 At the moment, since Dendron supports the files inside of

notes/

, but not the notes inside of the root of a vault (community docs like

CONTRIBUTING

,

README

, etc.), they sort of sit separately when it comes to note ref inclusion support and lookup support. These may be considered as "non-note" files, in a sense, which could also be an extension of the discussion here: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/discussions/1975