caiych / vscode-memo

Markdown knowledge base with bidirectional [[link]]s built on top of VSCode

Memo

Markdown knowledge base with bidirectional [[link]]s built on top of VSCode.

Inspired by Obsidian.md and RoamResearch.

Why?

Because your knowledge base deserves to be powered by open source. Read more here.

Getting started

If you want to try out Memo just install it via marketplace using this link and open the help folder in VSCode.

Known issues

Image preview on hover is currently not compatible with VSCode 1.53 and 1.54. Possible fix is investigated, so use it at your discretion.

To enjoy all features, you can use VSCode 1.52 (November 2020), which can be downloaded from this page.

Features

• 🔗 Links support

  • Creating links

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  • Links navigation

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  • Embedding notes and images

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  • Automatic links synchronization on file rename

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  • Links rename via Rename Symbol command

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  • Links labeling

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  • Support for short and full links on filename clash

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  • Opening links with unsupported file formats in the system default app

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  • Find all references

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• 🖼️ Notes and images preview (built-in & on-hover)

• 🦋 Creating notes on the fly

• 🖇 Backlinks panel

• 🕹 Commands

  • "Open link" command support for links following

  • "Open link to the side" command allows you to open link in the adjacent/new column of the editor

  • "Open daily note" command which creates a note with a title in yyyy-mm-dd format or opens already existing one

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  • "Open random note" command which allows you to explore your knowledge base a little bit

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  • "Open link in the default app" command for opening unsupported file formats in the system default app

  • "Rename Symbol" command support for renaming links right in the editor

FAQ

• Memo vs Foam
• Memo vs Obsidian
• How to follow link on cmd+enter or ctrl+enter like in Obsidian?
  • Bind built-in editor.action.openLink command to cmd+enter (see example) or use cmd+click on the link
• Pasting images from clipboard
• Pasting HTML as Markdown
• Memo missing some feature? Please consider exploring other Markdown plugins from VS Marketplace first. There are plenty of them.

Contributing

• File bugs, feature requests in GitHub Issues.
• Leave a review on Visual Studio Marketplace.
• Read CONTRIBUTING.md for contributing to the code base.

Changelog

See changelog here.