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Learning to use Org-roam (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by beppi@sh.itjust.works to c/emacs@lemmy.ml
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Hey guys, I think I get the basic idea, but I have a few questions..

  1. How do I just open up a note to check it out? I can see just opening the file regularly, but having each file start with a long sting of numbers leads me to think there's some nicer, easier way.

  2. How do I go about having multiple "networks" one for work and one for home, etc. Do I just use folders?

Thanks guys!

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[–] Beteigeuze@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago
  1. You can use org-roam-node-find which (maybe depending on your default completion framework, I use doom emacs btw. so some things are preset) let you type substrings of the actual title of the node to find it.
  2. This is a bit complicated, because there is no built-in way for having distinct buckets in Org-roam. But you can set directory-local variables in .dir-locals.el to achieve this.

For example, put this inside the file /home/username/work/.dir-locals.el:

;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp; -*-

((nil . ((org-roam-directory . "/home/username/work")
         (org-roam-db-location . "/home/username/work/org-roam.db"))))

Whenever Emacs opens a file inside the work directory, it will load and apply any variables in this file. Therefore you first must open a file inside the folder to access this files; open a file outside the directory to access the default ones.