Notes and Organizing

The note layer

This is the part that is not Notepad, and the only part. Everything on this page is optional, local, and off the network.

The product keeps a small index of documents you have opened -- their paths, their titles, and keywords drawn from their text. Nothing leaves your machine, and what is recorded at all is governed by your privacy profile; see Privacy.

	Windows	Linux
The index	%LOCALAPPDATA%\bachelorpad\data\organize.sqlite	$XDG_DATA_HOME/bachelorpad/organize.sqlite, else ~/.local/share/bachelorpad/organize.sqlite

Note

About the document in front of you.

Row	What it tells you
Suggest Title	The title found in the document, and where it was found
Semantic Rename...	A proposed Title_DDMMMYYYY.ext filename, for you to approve
Summary	A short summary drawn from the text
Keywords	The terms this document is indexed under, read from the text in front of you
Outline	Its headings, as a structure
Document Statistics	Words, lines and characters, computed on the click and never on the typing path
Tags	What the store recorded for this document. The sibling of Keywords -- that reads the text, this reads the record, and they disagree exactly when there are unsaved edits
Recovery Checkpoints	What the journal holds, and before the count, whether this profile writes one at all

Organize

About this document's relationship to the others.

Related Notes opens a collapsible panel of documents sharing tags with this one, most related first. Clicking a row opens it and takes you to the relevant place.

Duplicate Detection works two ways: a notice when you save something that closely resembles a document already indexed, and a menu row that asks on demand.

Suggested Folder answers a narrower question -- where do documents sharing this one's tags already live? It counts what you have actually filed rather than imposing a scheme on you, and it never moves a file. File > Save a Copy is where that already lives.

Research

Research Report reads the index and writes a report about your notes as a whole: dominant themes, under-connected documents, what the store holds.

It says what it did not look at. The report is built from the 500 most recently seen documents, and if you have more than that the report says so, in the report, where you will read it. Each section names at most five items and each item at most a few documents, and it says that too.

That is deliberate and it is worth knowing why. An earlier version scanned 500 documents and mentioned it nowhere a reader could see, so a report about "your notes" was a report about some of them, presented as if it were about all of them. Being inspectable in the source is not the same as being honest to the person reading the output.

Open Questions and What the Store Holds are the other two rows. The first finds every question the document asks, at the line it begins on, skipping anything inside a code fence. The second reports the store's own contents -- and states, in the report, that it never holds the text of a document.

Turning it off

Set a privacy profile that records nothing. The menu rows stay and report that there is nothing to report, rather than disappearing -- a greyed row with its reason in its own label is more use than a row that is not there.

Deleting organize.sqlite empties the index. The product will make a new one if your profile permits it.

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