neur0manc / sublime-notedown

Sublime Text package that helps you manage a collection of notes stored as Markdown files

Notedown for Sublime Text

The Notedown package helps you use Sublime Text for keeping notes stored as Markdown files.

Sublime Text, with its built-in Markdown support, is pretty good at managing notes. But it lacks one key feature: linking between notes.

Notedown fills this gap. It lets you to link to another note with

[[Note title]]

Follow a link with Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button or by positioning the cursor then pressing Ctrl + Alt + O or selecting Notedown: Open from the command palette.

Features

Features provided by Notedown:

• Link to another note with [[Note title]].
• Note title auto-completion. Type [[ and you're shown a list of notes you can link to.
• Note renaming. Change the Markdown heading and the note file is automatically renamed to match and all backlinks are updated.
• Open a URL conforming to the Markdown syntax with the same shortcuts you use for opening a note.
• Create a new note by attempting to open a link to a note that does not exist.
• Note link validation. On save, you'll be shown a list of broken note links.

Note keeping features built into Sublime Text:

• Search for a note with Goto Anything (Command + P or Ctrl + P).
• Goto a heading within a note with Goto Symbol (Command + R or Ctrl + R).

Note filenames and titles

A note has one or more titles defined by its file name:

<title>.md
<title> ~ <title>.md

The tilde character (~) is used to separate multiple note titles. <title> must not contain tilde characters.

Any Markdown file extension (.md, .mdown, .markdown, or .markdn) can be used.

Note links

Note link syntax:

[[<title>]]

For example, all of the following links,

[[Foo]]
[[Bar]]
[[Goo]]

link to the same file:

Foo ~ Bar ~ Goo.md

Links within raw markup are ignored. For example:

`[[This]] is a not link.`

Commands

Notedown provides these Sublime Text commands:

• notedown_open: Open the link under the cursor or mouse selection.

  • Default mouse map: Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button
  • Default keyboard map: Ctrl + Alt + O

• notedown_lint: Lints the current note. Runs automatically when a note is saved.

Settings

Notedown looks for settings in Notedown.sublime-settings.

Notedown supports these settings:

• markdown_extension: The file extension used when creating new notes. This should not include a leading period (.). If not defined, md is used. Example: "markdown_extension": "markdown".

• note_folder_patterns: Defines which folders contain notes compatible with Notedown. The folder patterns (which may use wildcards compatible with fnmatch) are matched against the name of a Markdown file's containing folder to determine if the file should be considered a note. If not defined or an empty list, then all Markdown files are considered to be notes. Example: "note_folder_patterns": ["Notes"].