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Default journal format #382
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Thanks for the suggestion. |
Thanks for the reply, not an AI hallucination here, just a person trying to learn more :) I understand the point that the markdown format is essentially just a construct that sits on top of plain text and the clear assumption of tui-journal is that all text is plaintext. You are correct that using the markdown format wouldn't improve fuzzy finding capabilities, I suppose that was just a link I formed in my mind because I usually fuzzy find based off the headers of a document, but the find by content option is format agnostic. The assumption that all text is plaintext may be true for tui-journal's rendering purposes, but it is not an assumption that holds once a document leaves the confines of the database. Thanks to the elegant mechanism for exporting it is possible to take journal entries beyond the database for other uses as well, but renaming every file being exported as the same .md filetype is a chore that should be automated. There are useful reasons for this feature that extend far past searching: A default file format used with importing and exporting would allow for syncing notes across machines and applications something would greatly extend the functionality associated with tui-journal. A plugin for batch importing/exporting could transform a shared repo used with other note taking applications like Obsidian into a home for tui-journal as well, allowing it to shine as a blazingly fast tui note application. I would be happy to help with development if you would consider supporting the feature and need community support. |
Thanks for the suggestion... I want to make sure that you are know all the current export and import functionality because maybe you can achieve you goal with much simpler way...
Do you think we need to improve on that mechanism or it's enough for your use-case? |
Tui-journal stores files by default as txt files. It would be nice to have an option to configure this to enable other formats like markdown--especially given the goal for a RESTful API. Having the ability to control note format could make for more powerful fuzzy searching and thus more powerful note taking/finding abilities.
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