Version 3.0.7 of package Denote has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Denote describes itself as: ================================================= Simple notes with an efficient file-naming scheme ================================================= More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/denote.html ## Summary: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DENOTE: SIMPLE NOTES WITH AN EFFICIENT FILE-NAMING SCHEME Protesilaos Stavrou i...@protesilaos.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This manual, written by Protesilaos Stavrou, describes the customization options for the Emacs package called `denote' (or `denote.el'), and provides every other piece of information pertinent to it. The documentation furnished herein corresponds to stable version 3.0.0, released on 2024-06-30. Any reference to a newer feature which does not yet form part of the latest tagged commit, is explicitly marked as such. Current development target is 3.1.0-dev. ## Recent NEWS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHANGE LOG OF DENOTE Protesilaos Stavrou i...@protesilaos.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This document contains the release notes for each tagged commit on the project’s main git repository: <https://github.com/protesilaos/denote>. The newest release is at the top. For further details, please consult the manual: <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote>. Table of Contents ───────────────── 1. Version 3.0.0 on 2024-06-30 1 Version 3.0.0 on 2024-06-30 ═════════════════════════════ This major release comes about two years after the first version of Denote, which was published on 2022-06-27. A lot of technicalities have changed in the meantime, though the core idea remains the same. In fact, the original video presentation I did is still relevant, especially for those looking to get started with Denote (but remember to consult the latest documentation for up-to-date information—and ask me if you have any questions). Version 3 iterates on refinements that we made over the life cycle of version 2. Existing users will find that their workflow remains the same, though they now have even more options at their disposal. As usual, my release notes are detailed. Please take your time to read them: they are here for you. Special thanks to Jean-Philippe Gagné Guay, a long-time contributor to the project, for working on some of the items covered herein. I am not covering everything, as many important changes are not user-facing. Please consult the Git log for further details. 1.1 File name components can be written in any order ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── [ Relevant blog post: <https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-05-19-emacs-denote-reorder-file-name-components/>.] Users can now change the variable `denote-file-name-components-order' to affect how Denote file names are constructed. By default, file names are written using this scheme (consult the manual for the details): ┌──── │ IDENTIFIER--TITLE__KEYWORDS.EX └──── An optional `SIGNATURE' field can be added, thus: ┌──── │ IDENTIFIER==SIGNATURE--TITLE__KEYWORDS.EXT └──── By modifying the `denote-file-name-components-order', users can produce file names like these: ┌──── │ --TITLE__KEYWORDS@@IDENTIFIER.EXT │ __SIGNATURE--TITLE__KEYWORDS@@IDENTIFIER.EXT │ __SIGNATURE--TITLE@@IDENTIFIER__KEYWORDS.EXT └──── Note that when the `DATE' is not the first component, it gets the `@@' prefix to (i) remain unambiguous and (ii) make it easy to target it directly for search purposes. Thanks to Jean-Philippe Gagné Guay for the contribution in pull request 360: <https://github.com/protesilaos/denote/pull/360>. We discussed the possible delimiters for the `IDENTIFIER' in issue 332: <https://github.com/protesilaos/denote/issues/332>. Thanks to Jean-Philippe, Nick Bell, Maikol Solis, and mentalisttraceur for their insights. Our concern was to use characters that are stylistically fine, while they are not special symbol in regular expressions (as those make searching a bit less convenient). Please remember that the file-naming scheme is the cornerstone of Denote. If you do change how your notes are named, make sure to be consistent throughout, otherwise you will likely make it harder for yourself to find what you need. 1.2 Exclude certain files from all prompts ────────────────────────────────────────── Sometimes users keep files in their `denote-directory' that they do not want to interactive with. These can, for example, be what Org produces when exporting to another file format or when archiving a heading. The user option `denote-excluded-files-regexp' makes is possible to omit all those files from the relevant Denote prompts. This is in response to requests for such a user option done by Samuel W. Flint and zadca123 in issues 376 and 384, respectively: • <https://github.com/protesilaos/denote/issues/376> • <https://github.com/protesilaos/denote/issues/384> … …
