Org-Roam-Tips

Org and Org-roam hints and tricks

Find a Node

  • Updating keybinding for org-roam-node-find
  • can now use s-f

Daily navigation

  • binding previous and next daily notes to s-{ and s-}…
  • This now matches the strokes for changing tabs….
  • Should have done this a long time ago!!

Setup daily capture

  • C-n d n whic runs org-roam-dailies-capture-today and adds an entry into todays daily log
  • Can now use s-j

To link to work in tasks:

  • In Tasks: Create the link (org-store-link) Ive bound to C-c s
  • Then in the daily C-c C-l

Popup to asdd note in todays daily from another file

  • org-roam-dailies-capture-today
  • and adds an entry into todays daily log
  • C-n d n
  • Can now use s-j

How to turn org files into org-roam nodes

Put point in the file (or on the heading) and run M-x org-id-get-create — it generates and inserts the ID property in the right place.

Links

  • Create link with C-c n i
  • Backlinks buffer! C-c n l
  • Can use .org files for your template source!
  • Preview Bound to C-c p

Time Stamps

  • Insert date org-time-stamp can run with C-c .
  • Can due -7 or +7 in when selecting and org date

Text formatting

  • Wrap a text in characters to show in different modes
Markup Syntax Formatted Result
*bold* bold
/italic/ italic
_underlined_ underlined
=verbatim= verbatim
~red~ red
+strike-through strike-through

Tasks

  • org refile C-v C-w
  • Set tags with C-c C-q (calls org-set-tags-command)

Bullets

  • Control + enter makes a new bullet
  • Alt + enter make a new bullet right where you are
  • Cycles through done states C-C C-X C-b

Lists

  • Can get new list item with M-RET

Agenda

When in the agenda view, you can use:

key action
f Move forward one day
b Move backward one day
. Jump to today
'/' Filter task by tag
   

Can filter tasks by tag in agenda mode using / OR can use org-agenda m to filter by tags

Org screen shots Org-Roam-Tips

Can do org-download-clipboard to insert screen shots!!!

Link to Email

- org-store-line [C-c s] on the mail in view mail

  • C-c C-l where you want to put the link

Can link to files on the file system! Org-Roam-Tips

C-c C-l then do file: RET and then navigate to the file you want.

FAQ

Found org file that I could not link to.

  • Tried clearing the cache and restarted, but it did nothing.
  • But in the link by hand and when I opened it went to an other file.
  • Realised there was another file with teh same UUID… not clear how that happened
  • By changing the UUID of one of the file clearing the cache and rerunning the db sync, I was able to link to it

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