With respect to the notes of the same name - you can key the items with a generated id and "namespace" the keys with a journal specific id to avoid conflicts.

With respect to the notes of the same name - you can key the items with a generated id and "namespace" the keys with a journal specific id to avoid conflicts. In this way two notes having the same name is 'ok' as they have different keys. It would help to have a user guided merge feature that can be manually triggered by combining items (not just on conflict)