3 ms·
Similar feeling here. I found that simple full-text search goes a long way to scale without needing to impose structures (and things like backlinks). It will pr
by natrys 2y ago
Similar feeling here. I found that simple full-text search goes a long way to scale without needing to impose structures (and things like backlinks). It will probably not be enough for prolific note takers but I think it's enough for people with say <1000 files.
(although I use Xeft[1] which is spiritually the same but I find the UI cleaner and snappier because it uses Xapian rather than elisp for full-text search).
[1] https://github.com/casouri/xeft https://github.com/casouri/xeft
- setopt 2y agoI actually switched from Deft -> Xeft -> Howm as my main UI for searching and creating notes :). Xeft is indeed great, and I still keep it around for more involved searches (like “+key1 -key2” and “key1 NEAR key2”). But most of my searches now go through Howm, which supports fulltext as-you-type searching (can be invoked by pressing “g” for “grep” from its note list), and it can shell out to Ripgrep to speed it up.