Denote

Take notes using a strict file-naming convention. Denote does not do anything else:

• Want to search your notes? Use M-x grep, M-x find-name-dired, M-x consult-find, M-x consult-grep, and so on.

• Want to quickly jump to the directory of your notes? Visit it with M-x find-file RET path/to/notes and then make a bookmark with M-x bookmark-set. Access bookmarks with M-x bookmark-jump, M-x consult-buffer, and the like. And/or treat your notes as a project with the built-in project.el.

• Narrow the list of notes? Do it from the completion UI and export the results with embark (or equivalent). To achieve the same in Dired, do M-x dired-mark-files-regexp RET type-regexp-here RET t k. The t k will toggle the match so that it marks all files that do not match the regexp and k will remove them from the buffer (restore them by reverting the buffer).

• Create links between notes? Use Org's standard linking facility.

You get the idea: Denote is a small part of an existing toolkit. Think of it as an opinionated template for org-capture (it can be integrated in org-capture-templates, though it can work without that mechanism).

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This is successor to usls: https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/usls, which I had been using for more than a year. Denote is intended for private use, until I eventually turn it into a package that others can use. As such, there is no manual for the time being and the code may change considerably.