Notes discovery: Random notes and recent notes (dashboard?)

[j-steinbach]

There should be ways to discover random/recent/orphaned notes.

• Google offers a "I am feeling lucky" button that takes one to a random page/function. Wikipedia offers a "random article" page
• Wikipedia displays curiosities and timeline events on its start page
• Modern browsers offer a custom "new tab" experience, with recent searches

The most important thing here is giving the user choice -- those features shouldn't feel gimmicky, but instead be optional and enhance the side menu or "main entry page" of the personal knowledge base / Zettelkasten

[j-steinbach]

Just noticed that there is/was srid/neuron#427

[j-steinbach]

So one could create a "random" query and add it to their index note?

[srid]

Yes, the Query type can be extended to accommodate such 'dynamic' cases.

emanote/src/Emanote/Model/Query.hs

Lines 22 to 27 in e0229f1

	data Query
	= QueryByTag HT.Tag
	| QueryByTagPattern TagPattern
	| QueryByPath FilePath
	| QueryByPathPattern FilePattern
	deriving (Eq)

But we need to come up with exact semantics. Is it just "give me a link to a single random note"?

[j-steinbach]

I would go with "any random note" and "random note with tag XYZ", for example "random note tagged with 'learning'".

Does it just return (and display) a link or does it actually take you to the queries page? (The latter makes more sense to me)

[srid]

Note: this can also be subsumed under #106

Does it just return (and display) a link or does it actually take you to the queries page?

Queries always render inline (they don't create a new dedicated page and then take you to it). In regards to what to display, it is best to let the user customize the HTML template for it, with Emanote providing a default one, as described here.

[j-steinbach]

Then I would split my suggestion into two:

• Improvement of the queries
• An actual button (maybe some dice) in the UI that takes you to a random, unspecified note