Normally dont leave comments, but had to leave message here. THANK YOU for this video, it was amazing. I've been meaning to learn Org Roam for awhile and this video was amazing for me. Subscribed and cant wait to see more
About the tags, they are space separated but unfortunately, by default, org-roam limits the display to 10 characters max, that's why the tag following "#Project" was truncated to " #". You can customize the display with the org-roam-node-display-template variable.
About searching with the tags, if set the foolowing: (setq org-roam-node-display-template "${directories:10} ${tags:10} ${title:100} ${backlinkscount:6}") It will show the directory, tags, title and backlinkcount in the search. Thank you for showing the file template, this makes it much easier for me to manage. I have tens of capture templates and this makes it much easier to manage.
Thank you for your Build a Second Brain in Emacs series! It helps a lot! Mostly, we take notes when we reading or watching videos. How can we take notes when we read PDF or epub papers or books or when we watching videos, so that in the captured notes we can automatically record the location of the files, the position of the books, or the timestamp in the videos? Thanks!
Thank you for the amazing video! I am following along all your videos and I noticed today that :if-new must be substituted with :target (as per org-roam documentation if I read correctly)
Hi David, why is the first heading () highlighted in orange at around 12:54? Sometimes I get that behavior for some headings in org files and I don’t know what I’ve typed to make it happen or what it means….
Thanks for these videos! I'd like to see you cover the capture of webpages from a bookmark in your browser using org-protocol and roam. Not sure this is even possible. I'd love to capture the website I'm on in my browser into a note with a custom bookmark-notes template using a bookmark in my browser.
This works for me: - Add new bookmark - Set URL to : javascript:location.href = 'org-protocol://roam-ref?template=r&ref=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href) + '&title=' + encodeURIComponent(document.title) Will open a capture buffer with ROAM_REFS set to the URL of the website and the title likewise.
is there a template for capture templates or do you have to memorize the format? I'm sure I could just create an interactive macro or an elisp function to do it
Any talk about org-roam-server? It doesnt' seem well described on its page (or its options), but the idea is tempting.. ie: put up a VM somewhere to host an emacs session as a roam server (?), and then have multiple Emacssen (work? home? multiple VMs..) all referring to that hosted roam content? .. is that possible?
how do i create nodes under a folder? example I got the org/roam folder then under it i have folder 1 folder 2 folder 3 and for example, when I do org-roam-find to create a note, the folder names are displayed in the display with @folder 1 @folder 2 @folder 3 but ... if i try to create a file there, it actually creates it under the /roam folder instead, and then i have to manually move the note ... o.O
Is it possible to specify a subdirectory under the org-roam directory for specific templates? E.g. a journal template that has new files created with it created under something like ~/org-roam/journal.
You should be able to include a subdirectory in the template's target path, but make sure the directory exists first because I've found that capture fails when the target folder doesn't exist.
You'd only use these if you wanted to customize how Org Roam notes get created, they don't replace the normal Org Mode capture templates that you might use in other cases
Hi David! Thanks for this amazing video! I was wondering whether it would be possible to use the org-roam-directory variable in the path of the template file. Since it was defined beforehand it should be possible, or am I wrong? I was trying to do somethins like (file (concat org-roam-directory "/path/to/template.org")) but had no luck and ran into an "org-capture-get-template: Wrong type argument: stringp"-error...
Do you know if it's possible to create a file with Emacs and import a template, depending on the type of file? Like a hook, or a tag. I have to write a lot of stuff that requires the same kind of headers (example: General Information header, Details header, Age etc.). So far what I do is keep a blank file with only headers, then I create another file and copy the headers over the new file. Sorry if it's confusing, I will try to rephrase if that's the case. Thank you for the video, sir! Still learning roam, it's an awesome tool. Edit: I just started the video, it seems like it covers that topic heh Edit 2: yes! Awesome. That's exactly what I needed. That's what I get for posting before watching the video haha
Dude this is amazing, I thought it was too much to ask, but nope, really easy to implement this functionality. Thank you very much, David, you have no idea how many hours this will save me.
@@SystemCrafters sorry to bother with so many comments, I get very excited tweaking Emacs haha. But yeah, I already implemented what I needed, thanks to this tutorial!
Org Roam v2 uses #+filetags for file-level tags to be consistent with general Org Mode usage, this is different than in Org Roam v1. #+roam_tags is still used for tags for the heading level nodes though.
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I am really happy I found this channel. The presentation is very clear and very focused. Thank you!
a real chad of the emacs community 🐱👓
Normally dont leave comments, but had to leave message here. THANK YOU for this video, it was amazing. I've been meaning to learn Org Roam for awhile and this video was amazing for me. Subscribed and cant wait to see more
Glad you liked it, thanks a lot!
About the tags, they are space separated but unfortunately, by default, org-roam limits the display to 10 characters max, that's why the tag following "#Project" was truncated to " #".
You can customize the display with the org-roam-node-display-template variable.
Excellent, thanks for the clarification!
This has also been fixed in the master branch. They are still truncated by default, but now the truncated contents are still searchable.
About searching with the tags, if set the foolowing:
(setq org-roam-node-display-template "${directories:10} ${tags:10} ${title:100} ${backlinkscount:6}")
It will show the directory, tags, title and backlinkcount in the search.
Thank you for showing the file template, this makes it much easier for me to manage. I have tens of capture templates and this makes it much easier to manage.
That's a really excellent tip, thanks!
Such a great channel! Thank you for the amazing content. I’ll become a supporter.
P.S. were you skiing shortly before recording this video?
Thanks! Nah, probably just wearing hats and sunglasses too often
Excellent video!
You'll get used to the time restriction (I speak as a teacher).
Great intro, Wil. Always improving, just your system craft
Thanks for the videos - learning a lot from these!
Big fan of the new intro style ngl
Thanks, glad to hear that!
It's really helpful. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for these great videos.
Thank you for your Build a Second Brain in Emacs series! It helps a lot! Mostly, we take notes when we reading or watching videos. How can we take notes when we read PDF or epub papers or books or when we watching videos, so that in the captured notes we can automatically record the location of the files, the position of the books, or the timestamp in the videos? Thanks!
Thank you for the amazing video! I am following along all your videos and I noticed today that :if-new must be substituted with :target (as per org-roam documentation if I read correctly)
Might be true, Org Roam keeps changing things that break my instructions!
Hi David, why is the first heading () highlighted in orange at around 12:54? Sometimes I get that behavior for some headings in org files and I don’t know what I’ve typed to make it happen or what it means….
Honestly, I don't know why that happens! I see it pretty often too, I can't think of a good reason why the face would change.
Love roam great video :)
Thanks for these videos! I'd like to see you cover the capture of webpages from a bookmark in your browser using org-protocol and roam. Not sure this is even possible. I'd love to capture the website I'm on in my browser into a note with a custom bookmark-notes template using a bookmark in my browser.
Definitely possible! I'll cover it in a video in this series
This works for me:
- Add new bookmark
- Set URL to :
javascript:location.href = 'org-protocol://roam-ref?template=r&ref=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href) + '&title=' + encodeURIComponent(document.title)
Will open a capture buffer with ROAM_REFS set to the URL of the website and the title likewise.
is there a template for capture templates or do you have to memorize the format? I'm sure I could just create an interactive macro or an elisp function to do it
Any talk about org-roam-server? It doesnt' seem well described on its page (or its options), but the idea is tempting.. ie: put up a VM somewhere to host an emacs session as a roam server (?), and then have multiple Emacssen (work? home? multiple VMs..) all referring to that hosted roam content? .. is that possible?
how do i create nodes under a folder?
example
I got the org/roam folder
then under it i have
folder 1
folder 2
folder 3
and for example, when I do org-roam-find to create a note, the folder names are displayed in the display with @folder 1 @folder 2 @folder 3 but ... if i try to create a file there, it actually creates it under the /roam folder instead, and then i have to manually move the note ... o.O
how do you make the capture buffer to open on a window with a vertical split?
Is it possible to specify a subdirectory under the org-roam directory for specific templates? E.g. a journal template that has new files created with it created under something like ~/org-roam/journal.
You should be able to include a subdirectory in the template's target path, but make sure the directory exists first because I've found that capture fails when the target folder doesn't exist.
Is there an immediate benefit of switching built-in captures for Roam's, or is it all a part of a bigger plan?
You'd only use these if you wanted to customize how Org Roam notes get created, they don't replace the normal Org Mode capture templates that you might use in other cases
Hi David! Thanks for this amazing video! I was wondering whether it would be possible to use the org-roam-directory variable in the path of the template file. Since it was defined beforehand it should be possible, or am I wrong? I was trying to do somethins like (file (concat org-roam-directory "/path/to/template.org")) but had no luck and ran into an "org-capture-get-template: Wrong type argument: stringp"-error...
Is there any way to visit/find nodes by tags?
4:30 I would love to learn how to create headings by default. Specifically for an org roam dailies
Do you know if it's possible to create a file with Emacs and import a template, depending on the type of file? Like a hook, or a tag.
I have to write a lot of stuff that requires the same kind of headers (example: General Information header, Details header, Age etc.).
So far what I do is keep a blank file with only headers, then I create another file and copy the headers over the new file.
Sorry if it's confusing, I will try to rephrase if that's the case.
Thank you for the video, sir! Still learning roam, it's an awesome tool.
Edit: I just started the video, it seems like it covers that topic heh
Edit 2: yes! Awesome. That's exactly what I needed. That's what I get for posting before watching the video haha
Dude this is amazing, I thought it was too much to ask, but nope, really easy to implement this functionality. Thank you very much, David, you have no idea how many hours this will save me.
Yep, sounds like this functionality is exactly what you need!
@@SystemCrafters sorry to bother with so many comments, I get very excited tweaking Emacs haha. But yeah, I already implemented what I needed, thanks to this tutorial!
Wouldn't use of #+roam_tags make more sense in roam context? At least org-roam-tag-[add|delete] functions work with those.
Org Roam v2 uses #+filetags for file-level tags to be consistent with general Org Mode usage, this is different than in Org Roam v1. #+roam_tags is still used for tags for the heading level nodes though.
@@SystemCrafters Thanks for clarification! 😊
"JavaScript is basically a scheme" ... spoken like a true LISPer.
I've written a org-roam template for org-gcal - are you interested? 😉 Thank you David for your great Videos! Happy New Year! 💫
Capture notes efficiently, after spending 7 months configuring emacs and learning org and roam on top of that... that is.
Pen and paper are as efficient in as it gets. This is the opposite of efficient.
Only if you could've made these videos last month. I recently moved out of Org-Roam and got back again on Obsidian.
You can always switch back ;)