Special Notes

Dendron has builtin support for a variety of special note formats. These notes can be created using regular lookup - these commands provide convenient shortcuts for frequently used notes.

Journal Note

A journal note is a self contained note that is meant to track something over time. Examples of journals include recording workout sessions, making meeting notes, and keeping a mood journal.

To create a journal note, use the command bar to select the >Dendron: New Journal Note command.

By default, Dendron will create the journal note with the following hierarchy {domain}.journal.{Y-MM-DD}. {domain} is the domain of the current active note when you execute New Journal Note.

Scratch Note

A scratch note is a self contained note that is meant to be used as scratchpad. Use it for thoughts or when you want to expand on a bullet point. Scratch notes are created in the scratch domain and have the following format: {domain}.journal.{Y-MM-DD-HHHHmmss}.

If you highlight text while creating a scratch note, the highlighted text will automatically be turned into a link to the new scratch note.

Configuration

All special notes support the following configuration options

• NodeType has the value of Journal or Scratch

dendron.default{NodeType}Name

Determines the node name.

Defaults:

• Journal: journal
• Scratch: scratch

default{NodeType}DateFormat

Determines the date format.

Defaults:

• Journal: Y-MM-DD
• Scratch: Y-MM-DD-HHmmss

default{NodeType}AddBehavior

Determines how note is added in relation to current hierarchy:

Possible values:

• childOfDomain: note is added as child of the domain of the current hierarchy
  • eg: dendron.demo.md -> create new journal note -> dendron.journal.2020-08-03.md
• childOfDomainNamespace: note is added as child of the namespace of the current domain if it has a namespace. otherwise behaves the same as childOfDomain
  • eg: pro.foo.md -> create new journal note -> pro.foo.journal.2020-08-03.md
• childOfCurrent: note is added as a child of the current open note
  • eg: dendron.demo.md -> create new journal note -> dendron.demo.journal.2020-08-03.md
• asOwnDomain: note is created under the domain dendron.default{NodeType}Name
  • eg: dendron.demo.md -> create new journal note -> journal.2020-08-03.md

Defaults:

• Journal: childOfDomain
• Scratch: asOwnDomain

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