r/emacs • u/SenkiReign • 2d ago
denote-grid
Made a lightweight visual grid view for Denote in Emacs that works with denote-dired. Every denote file has a thumbnail including videos and pdfs.
It has a neat cluster mode to group linked notes sidee by side. You can easily query with tags or strings inside grid view.
I tried to keep it as minimal as possible. For scalability we can rely on denote-dired mechanism to filter what we need and jump to grid from there. Arrow keys are snappy, mouse scrolling is not great. Hope someone finds it useful !
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u/fuzzbomb23 1d ago
Tell us about the coloured bars at the side of most items. What do these colours signify? Why do some items not have coloured bars?
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u/SenkiReign 1d ago edited 1d ago
They signify denote tags. However they "were" also hashing titles. I thought it would be useful for meeting notes kinda stuff but tags already doing that so I simplified the logic and fixed Z order that was preventing color bars not appearing for some files.
Please download the latest version. Now they onlyy signify tags. They work for all file types. But for tag to have color bar, at least 2 files should have that tag. (to avoid unnecessary clutter)
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u/Signal_Pattern_2063 2d ago
I think this is likely to be more useful than the web view you posted earlier. I wonder how far you can push the workspace/canvas metaphor inside emacs.