![]() Trunk also uses ] syntax for internal links, but the namespacing lets you use bare Development:ObjC if the second part is a WikiWord. But it might be worth a try for others, and could also be by nv users to other tools where some customization is possible, such as GitHub's Gollum wiki system which also uses a flat structure (but not the colon convention by default).Īlso noteworthy for Trunk users: the happy coincidences go both ways. I know Mike that you've already adopted your scheme across other tools, and this one may not work so coincidentally well everywhere. It's pretty sensible and it's easier to type than dashes, at least on qwerty. ![]() Type "blog" and you'll get all the noise of other notes that contain the term, but tack on the "/" for the same effect as "x". I might often start with Work/SomeProject when prospecting a client, and end up breaking up its content into sub-pages when I win a bid and the project becomes detailed.įollowing from that, it addresses your search disambiguation need like Blogx, at least in nv. The namespace itself can be a note with content, i.e. It keeps some of familiarity of the hierarchical file path abstraction while also having benefits of a flat structure. The notable part, even if you're not interested in Trunk, is that when I set nvALT to use my Trunk Notes Dropbox folder, it automatically renders the note titles with a slash in place of the colons, like Work/SomeProject, and if you create a new note like Work/AnotherProject, it creates a file on disk with a colon, keeping the flat folder structure. txt if you want to migrate old notes and you're lazy). I found a support thread where the author said you can simply add the extension to your old pages through Dropbox and the app would pick it up seamlessly, which I did. for any long-time Trunk users who may want to edit notes in desktop tools: in the past the file extension was not automatically applied. This page is actually saved as a file called Work:SomeProject.markdown (n.b. Trunk Notes has a convention for namespacing wikiword links with a colon, like Work:SomeProject. So far nvALT is turning out to be a pretty great companion to it, and brings me to the note naming topic. One of them that I've come back around to a few times is Trunk Notes for iOS, a Markdown wiki with Dropbox sync. I'm new to nvALT but, like many of us, I've tried a lot of systems over time. I should blog about this myself as I refine it, but thought I would chime in on this thread with something that I've come across as a happy accident of my own legacy of auditioning note tools and workflows.
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