Question about debugging notes that might contain issues/errors/etc

[megalithic]

@mickael-menu .. while i've been working on zk.nvim, it's shown that a lot of my notes mnight have some sort of issue or issues with their formatting/content/etc. I'm wondering how we might go about debugging these? Thanks!

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[mickael-menu]

Yeah the output is not very useful here... I added the note path in the warning message in main, that should help. The yaml part means that the error is in the YAML frontmatter. If you share the frontmatter of one of the notes I can help you debug it.

zk-v0.3.0-10-gb82b217-macos-x86_64.zip

[megalithic]

Thanks so much @mickael-menu!! Will give this a shot to dig further. Just having path info for erroneous files is uber helpful!

[megalithic]

Yes, so helpful! So, it turns out my tags line is erroneous in my frontmatter:

tags: [#something,#meeting,#oneonone,#person_name]

Thoughts?

[mickael-menu]

Yeah the problem is that # is the start of an inline comment in YAML, so you need to quote these tags if you really want to prefix them with #:

tags: ["#something", "#meeting", "#oneone", "#person_name"]

But the idiomatic YAML frontmatter would be without the #, which works without the quotes:

tags: [something, meeting, oneone, person_name]

[megalithic]

🤦 thank you @mickael-menu!