@dakerDraws - eviltoast
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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Sure, I do something similar. I have a note for a person and I have a note for a recurring meeting. In a recurring meeting I have a Dataview field called Host.

    #Meeting
    This is my meeting note
    
    Host:: [[John Doe]] 
    

    In a Person note, I have a section for meetings the person hosts. I use Dataview to search for the Host field and see of it matches the current Person note.

    #Person
    This is John Doe's note.
    
    # Meetings
    
    dataview
    table without ID file.link AS "Meeting"
    from #Meeting
    where contains(Host, this.file.link)
    
    

    The new Properties feature sounds like it’ll be what Dataview fields are. Except now it’ll be in a native interface where I can easily change the information about the note.















  • Just to make sure I understand, you want your Author notes to have a Dataview table containing all the books they’ve written?

    For each Book note, do you have a field (either in YAML or inline Dataview) pointing to the Author note? What I personally do is have an inline field that links to the Author note:

    Author:: [[Stephen King]]

    Then in the Author note I’ll have this:

    table without id link(file.link,title) AS Book, Year FROM "BOOK FOLDER" WHERE contains(Author, this.file.link)

    Replace BOOK FOLDER with wherever your books are. Then you can paste this into all your Author notes. Even better, make an Author template so you don’t have to type it each time you make an Author note.



  • I think of MOCs as “topics” that naturally arrise through my notes. Let’s say I had notes for Kayaking, Snowboarding, Rooftop Parkour, Sky Diving, Hiking, and Rock Climbing all written months apart. I may later realize I should create a MOC called “Physical Activities” that captures all of them.

    I try to utilize folders sparingly, but it’s a tough habit to break. The problem with folders is that they’re hierchal. I don’t want an “Physical Activities” folder, because that limits things. Perhaps I’ll have another MOC called “Fear of Heights” that also has Rooftop Parkour and Skydiving. It’s about creating maximum discoverability.

    Tags I use to group things so I can find them with Dataview. For example, if I create a literature note, I’ll tag it “Source” and have a sub tag for type, like “Source/Newspaper”. As with MOCs, multiple tags can be used which helps with not seeing notes as a folder hierarchy.