Version 2.2.4 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 2.2.0, released on 2023-12-10. 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 2.3.0-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://git.sr.ht/~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 2.2.0 on 2023-12-10 1 Version 2.2.0 on 2023-12-10 ═════════════════════════════ The present version covers four broad themes: 1. Denote rename commands are more user-friendly and featureful. 2. An optional sorting facility makes it possible to produce a filtered and sorted Dired buffer with Denote files. 3. The optional Denote Org dynamic blocks have received a lot of attention. 4. Bug fixes and internal refinements. [ Remember that you do not need to be a programmer to contribute to Denote. Report a bug, make a suggestion, or just describe how you want to use this package. Every idea counts and we may implement it if we can. ] 1.1 The rename commands can remove a Denote file name component ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The commands we provide to rename files using the Denote file-naming scheme—`denote-rename-file', `denote-dired-rename-files', and `denote-dired-rename-marked-files-with-keywords'—can now remove Denote file name components. This is done by providing an empty string at the relevant prompt. For example, to remove the `TITLE' component from a file called `20231209T110322==sig--title__keywords.ext' we provide an empty string at the title prompt. The end result will look something like this: `20231209T110322==sig__keywords.ext'. All prompts now include a hint that leaving them empty will ignore the given field if it does not exist or remove it if it does exist. Note that you must *check how to input an empty string* with your minibuffer user interface of choice. For instance, with the `vertico' package you can do that with the `M-RET' key binding or by selecting the prompt line directly (notice the counter showing something like `*/5' instead of `1/5'). Please make sure to consult the documentation of the package you are using as this behaviour is not controlled by Denote. Vertico, and others like it, selects the first candidate if you type `RET' without any input, which is not the same as an empty string—it is the first candidate. Also read the Denote manual on the matter of [Renaming files]. In short, we use this facility to name all our files, regardless of file type, in a consistent way that makes them easier to find (I do this with my videos, for example, and I do it across my filesystem for all personal files). [Renaming files] <https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote#h:532e8e2a-9b7d-41c0-8f4b-3c5cbb7d4dca> 1.2 The file-to-be-renamed is easier to read in the minibuffer ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The commands `denote-rename-file' and `denote-dired-rename-files' show the name of the file they are operating on in the minibuffer prompt. This is now produced relative to the current directory, meaning that instead of `/some/rather/long/path/to/file-name.txt' Denote only displays `file-name.txt'. Our rename commands never move files to another directory, anyway, so we do not need to remind the user of the entire file system path. To make things easier for users/themes, file names highlighted in Denote prompts are fontified with either of following faces, depending on the specifics of the case: • `denote-faces-prompt-old-name' • `denote-faces-prompt-new-name' • `denote-faces-prompt-current-name' These faces inherit the attributes of basic faces, so they should look decent without further tweaks across all themes. 1.3 Prompts for title, keywords, and signature accept an empty string ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── :PROPERTIES: :CUSTOM_ID: h:5897bcc1-4637-4268-8518-8404d939b4b9 … …
