Beginning with Bear

Posting on behalf of @cls whose Discourse is being a little odd. :slight_smile:

New user question. Is it correct that if one selects the “Method 1: Individual notes, one per index entry” under index creation, then there would not be a separate single file master index (.txt or .md) as well (under 00-09 system management)? If so, it would necessitate inefficiently having to change two things in the event a category would be added or altered. Thanks!

And I’ll reply as me. :upside_down_face:

Correct: if you have one-note-per-ID (which I recommend and use myself), you do not also have a master note at 00.00.

@johnnydecimal with Obsidian you could use datavies to query all index notes to make an automatic master note.

Yes thanks - I had previously downloaded that from dataview example from github and played with it. Worked great [Of course, that behavior created the underlying problem - bear, apple notes, devonthink, craft, notion, etc, etc].

Also, if the notes in bear constitute the jdex, should you have hundreds of other notes in bear as well (even if appropriately numbered), since it is much less ‘clean’?

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My preferences here show that I’m not a massive note-taker: my notes are just in the ID files themselves.

Otherwise this is where the + syntax from extend the end works well. Every sub-note related to an ID can be called 11.11+ Whatever you want to call the note.

The Obsidian users amongst us do this differently: some tend to prefer JDex entries to be their own separate thing, distinct from the rest of their notes.

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