Show HN: Tiles – yet another Emacs package for note-taking

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4 months ago

In TILES, each note (or tile, if you will) is a single plaintext paragraph stored in its own .org file, organized through tags and bold keywords. TILES tries to keep it simple: there is no note title (to reduce friction when creating a note, and honestly a note title is not something I find very useful anyway), there are no dependencies (except for Emacs, version 27.1 at least), no links between notes, no backlinks, no graphs, and no database; every note is a paragraph in its own plaintext file.

Other notable features are: - a dashboard offering a quick glance and a preview of your notes; - note stitching (borrowed from Howm) and the possibility to get note content by using Dynamic Blocks in Org Mode (borrowed from Denote); - tags are mandatory and used for hierarchy; - keywords are optional and automatically extracted from bolded content inside the notes; - search is performed exclusively on tags and/or keywords; - subnotes (or undertiles, if you will), a kind of meta-content (or private content) inside a note, which is a paragraph prefixed with '&&' hidden everywhere except in expanded view in the dashboard and, of course, in the note editing buffer (it's not exported trough Dynamic Blocks actions, nor through stitching); - color coding in the dashboard, depending on the note's age.