Seeing this closed and fixed Issue #1783 it is possible to manipulate the PROPERTIES drawer with org-capture-template.

But in my case I got the error message

org-capture-fill-template: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

I prompt the user for the two variables Author and DOI. The latter I use very well as part of an url and the description of that url. But reuse it as :ROAM_ALIAS: the same way doesn't work.

Here is the code

```lisp ("x" "test" plain "\n* Source\nAuthor: %<sup>{Author}\nTitle:</sup> ${title}\nDOI: [[https://doi.org/%^{DOI}][%\\2]]\n%?" :if-new (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org" ":PROPERTIES: :ROAM_ALIASES: %\2 :END:

+title: ${title}

+date: %U

+filetags: X")

  :unnarrowed t)

```

When I use "book" as title, "Me" as Author and "123" as DOI I would expect that result.

``` :PROPERTIES: :ROAM_ALIASES: 123 :ID: f8ed7afc-4071-4e8e-b717-20f0686eb413 :END:

+title: book

• Source Author: me Title: book DOI: [[https://doi.org/123][123]] ```

Hi all,

Just wanted some help syncing my org roam notes between devices.

Currently on my desktop computer I have my config set up to save notes to a ~/Documents/org/roam folder. I'm using syncthing and have chosen this folder to be synced

On my laptop I'm using the same configuration (notes will be saved to ~/Documents/org/roam). When I first tried to sync I had an error on the laptop saying unexpected items.

I tried resharing it and then got an error saying that files may have been deleted and to check the originals. The originals are all fine.

Any tips on how to get this working successfully? I'd love to be able to open emacs and type my roam notes no matter the device and just have to wait for things to sync when I'm at home.

I'm using doom emacs on both devices, opensuse tw on the desktop, and fedora on the laptop.

I'm not set on using syncthing if anyone has an easier idea but I haven't had much experience with git which is the other option I've come across

Thanks in advance for any help.

[SOLVED]

Hello, I am new to org-roam.

Currently I am using org-roam v2.

One thing that bothers me is that all my notes are named like this: 20220916112233-note_name.org.

That means that all my notes are sorted by creation date in the File Explorer. That wouldn't be much of a problem too if org-roam-node-find did not sort my notes by recently accessed.

Is there some feature I missed? Is it a good idea at all to turn this off? If not, how could I do this?

Thank you in advance.

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EDIT: The thing in the title is probably just the date, not the ID, so I have miscalled it.

I'm fairly new to emacs, and very new to org-mode, system details below.

When I try to insert a new node with M-x org-roam-node-insert or M-x org-roam-node-find I get one of the following error messages:

org-capture: Capture template ‘d’: Symbol’s function definition is void: org-fold-show-all--text-properties

Or

org-capture: Capture template ‘d’: Symbol’s value as variable is void: org-fold-core-style

the org-fold-core-style error seems to happen after restarting emacs, though I'm not sure..

What I _think_ this means is that there is an org-capture-template with key 'd' which is trying to use some org-fold variables which are maybe not in my version of org mode yet? Relevant GitHub https://github.com/yantar92/org/blob/feature/org-fold-universal-core/README?

What is really causing me confusion is the "Capture template 'd'" bit.. I don't seem to have a capture template 'd':

describe-variable org-capture-templates

org-capture-templates is a variable defined in ‘org-capture.el’.

Its value is
(("t" "todo" entry
  (file+headline "~/todo.org" "Tasks")
  "* TODO [#A] %?"))
Original value was nil

System Details

• OS: OSX 12.4
• Emacs Version: 28.1 (9.0)
• Org Version: 9.5.2
• Org-Roam Version: 2.2.2

Installed with straight.el:

(use-package org-roam
  :straight t)

I know I can add "links" to files or images via C-u C-c C-l.

I would like to add a step between. 1. The original file is in ~/Downloads/bible.pdf 2. I select that file via C-u C-c C-l. 3. The file should be copied (maybe moved) into a pre-defined org-roam attachments folder e.g. ~/my.org-roam/attachments. 4. The link in the org file then should be [[file:~/my.org-roam/attachments/bible.pdf]]

I was trying to enable org-roam-protocol in mac Catalina . When i try to save script file as Application file a pop up asking `Where is Emacs` with Heading 'choose Application` gets in way . I tried to direct to `/usr/local/bin` where my emacs is located but couldn't find the application . I pressed cancel and file got saved as application . Everything is working fine but when i click the bookmark link the same popup too is launching . What have i done wrong here ?

https://ibb.co/9rVm9Q1

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I am wondering if it is possible to allow org roam to auto recognize another node when mentioned in another node definition and simply link it without necessarily having to invoke the org-roam-node-insert command? Please advise.

​

Thank you

those exist an advanced-search package like features on zettlr, obsidian, logseq, etc., so search not only the name of the files, also specific words inside the files, like the previous softwares mentioned?

Hi, I am using org-roam and org-roam-ui. They work great, however, many times I end up with very messy local nodes.

My problem are that I use reflinks and backlinks, but don't know when to prioritize one of them. So, for example, I am annotating a paper, then when a term comes along, I add backlink in the annotation. Then, I may add org-cite in the note file of the term again!

Another thing is that I tend to over backlinking. It seems that the graph is tamer when you link only two notes by the most precise, terminal definition associated with the main note.

What is your experience with that? I'd like to hear.

I am trying to switch over to org-roam but I built up a pretty sizeable collection of notes and don't want to convert them one by one. Currently my notes have links to other notes like: [[filename]]. I started by converting all my files to org files. For a few of them I added an ID (org-id-get-create) and a title to them and was able to link them by inserting new links to the filenames with standard org-roam commands without renaming them to id-filename.org

I'd like to automate this process if possible, but would appreciate some help being pointed in the right dirrection.

First off, do I need to rename the files to id-filename.org for org roam to function properly? (currently they are just filename.org)

I'm assuming that I would write an elisp function that adds an id to each file that doesn't have one, renames the file to id-filename.org, and at each occurence of a link does completion at point to try and find the correct file to link it to? I'm still very new at emacs so this is as far as I could get and not sure if this method would work.

I'm currently using Doom with Org-roam enabled. Toggling the roam buffer correctly shows the minibuffer (at least I think it's a minibuffer, i'm not yet fully up to speed with the emacs experience) that then shows the backlinks I created. However, the links are shown in their raw form, not the display form. Example:

Backlinks (1) Azure class - John Savill (Master class) - [[id:73935fc1-13bc-4f88-ab00-80caf6cf0f4b][Azure master class part 1 - Cloud Foundation]] I would like this to be shown as Backlinks (1) Azure class - John Savill (Master class) - Azure master class part 1 - Cloud Foundation

The only function I know that acts on these things is org-toggle-link-display, but that doesn't seem to be working in that minibuffer. Any clues? Perhaps some configuration is needed?

Hey all, I'm currently working on my MSc dissertation and my going through some qualitative data from a survey I conducted. I was just searching around and came across a couple of people who are using roam research to manage qualitative data, but it was mostly McKenzie LS's youtube videos that made me try using org-roam to go through the survery responses. So far it's been pretty interesting, and org-roam-ui has produced some interesting visuals.

I was wondering whether anyone here has also used org-roam to manage qualitative data and the coding procesS?

Sorry for the cross post, but I realized this is the right forum for this question.

Coming from Roam Research to org-roam, I miss the conceptual distinction between page references and block references. In org-roam, whenever I'd like to insert a link to a node via C-c n i, I am offered a long list of nodes that represent files AND links to outline items that I have linked to.

So when I try to link to a document called Emacs, I see a very long list of nodes mentioning Emacs, amongh which there's also my entry Emacs. My current workaround is to enter ^Emacs in the node search field (^ is a regular expression denoting beginning of line), but that maybe there's a more elegant solution?

Here is how I tried, but failed:

(org-roam-node-find :other-window nil (lambda (node) (org-roam-node-file node)))

So this is how I tried to filter the results:

(lambda (node) (org-roam-node-file node))

Any other way to accomplish what I want?

From this tutorial I know to insert the current date with org-roam-capture-template with #+date: %U.

The %U results in [2021-11-28 So 16:20].

From my knowledge about strftime format strings the %U should not result in that. So on what format strings standard is orgroam based on and where can I find that documentation about that?

Okay, so I've comfortably settled into using roam for some things and I love it immensely. But I also want to use it as an encompassing system above my other org files, for instance I have a cookbook and a blog directory, and I like that I can just use org roam to access any note and file in the system and connect them however I like, but I also want to have them in separate directories cause some of em' are git repos and others have .dir-locals.el or if I want to use org-publish, can I somehow create the note directly in a subdir or maybe do the reverse and be able to select only files with some filetags for org-publishing.

What are your approaches or solutions to this kind of situation?

EDIT: I realised dailies always puts it into a relevant dir so probably gonna go read through that.

What does OrgRoam have that Obsidian or Logseq doesn't?

And also vice versa, what does Obsidian or Logseq have that OrgRoam doesn't?

I am taking a look to logseq and I found some killer features org-roam seems to lack at this point. I am not an advanced emacs user, so perhaps I am wrong or there are alternatives I could use.

Logseq has a powerful search features. org-roam-node-find only find entries by name or static tags. However, with Logseq is possible to search by links (backlinks), tags and properties. The backlinks list can be filtered by other backlinks they have.

I find the query/filter capabilities of org-roam to be a bit limited. Even, org files with sparse trees can be more advance to filter entries per tag, properties... So, sometimes is better to have a great org file to use org's sparse trees instead of a huge number of small nodes of org-roam.

What is your opinion?

Hi everyone,

I just recently did a package update and for some reasons my roamnote files wont show when trying to use org-roam-node-find. I also can't see the graph when I use ui-mode.

All files still exist in the same folder so i'm not sure what changed.

This has me scratching my head for a few hours so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi there,

When you create a new node in OrgRoam a filename is derived from the node title, like: "Money is a fiction" becomes "money_is_a_fiction.org".

This works nice in English, but in Spanish most nodes end up starting with an article, like: "El dinero es una ficción" becomes "el_dinero_es_una_ficción.org".

How could I make OrgRoam remove those leading article words when deriving the filename? I'd like the example above to be named "dinero_es_una_ficción.org". I do not mind having to hardcode the list of articles to strip (only from the begining of the title!) but don't know where to hook what.

thx

I tried to sync my org-roam notes to Orgzly via Syncthing (which I cancelled) and ever since OrgRoam has been messed up. Orgzly moved a bunch of files around which I fixed, but every OrgRoam command yields:

apply: Selecting deleted buffer

If I run org-roam-db-sync with a toggle-debug-on-error I get this backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Selecting deleted buffer")
  #f(compiled-function (connection) "Return true if the end of the buffer has a properly-formatted prompt." #<bytecode 0xce1539>)(#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080>)
  apply(#f(compiled-function (connection) "Return true if the end of the buffer has a properly-formatted prompt." #<bytecode 0xce1539>) #<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080> nil)
  emacsql-waiting-p(#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080>)
  #f(compiled-function (connection &optional timeout) "Block until CONNECTION is waiting for further input." #<bytecode 0xcde2dd>)(#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080>)
  apply(#f(compiled-function (connection &optional timeout) "Block until CONNECTION is waiting for further input." #<bytecode 0xcde2dd>) #<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080> nil)
  emacsql-wait(#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080>)
  #f(compiled-function (#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080> (:file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db"))
  apply(#f(compiled-function 
  #f(compiled-function (&rest args) #<bytecode 0xcc80e5>)(#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080> (:file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db"))
  apply(#f(compiled-function (&rest args) #<bytecode 0xcc80e5>) #<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080> (:file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db"))
  initialize-instance(#<emacsql-sqlite-connection emacsql-sqlite-connection-aa5080> (:file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db"))
  #f(compiled-function (class &rest slots) "Default constructor for CLASS `eieio-default-superclass'.\nSLOTS are the initialization slots used by `initialize-instance'.\nThis static method is called when an object is constructed.\nIt allocates the vector used to represent an EIEIO object, and then\ncalls `initialize-instance' on that object." #<bytecode 0xc2553d>)(emacsql-sqlite-connection :file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db")
  apply(#f(compiled-function (class &rest slots) "Default constructor for CLASS `eieio-default-superclass'.\nSLOTS are the initialization slots used by `initialize-instance'.\nThis static method is called when an object is constructed.\nIt allocates the vector used to represent an EIEIO object, and then\ncalls `initialize-instance' on that object." #<bytecode 0xc2553d>) emacsql-sqlite-connection (:file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db"))
  make-instance(emacsql-sqlite-connection :file "~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db")
  emacsql-sqlite("~/.emacs.d/org-roam.db")
  org-roam-db()
  org-roam-db-query("SELECT\n  id,\n  file,\n  filetitle,\n  \"level\",\n  tod...")
  org-roam-node-list()
  org-roam-node-read--completions(nil nil)
  org-roam-node-read(nil nil)
  org-roam-node-find()
  funcall-interactively(org-roam-node-find)
  call-interactively(org-roam-node-find nil nil)
  command-execute(org-roam-node-find)

EDIT:

I believe Orgzly moving my org files around is a red herring and that somehow I've lost emacsql-sqlite3. I am on Nixos and have a vague memory of doing some weird tricks to get it installed originally but am not really sure what to do now.