Points of entry

There are seven main ways to write a note with Denote: invoke the denote, denote-type, denote-date, denote-subdirectory, denote-template, denote-signature commands, or leverage the org-capture-templates by setting up a template which calls the function denote-org-capture. We explain all of those in the subsequent sections. Other more specialised commands exist as well, which one shall learn about as they read through this manual. We do not want to overwhelm the user with options at this stage.

All these commands construct the file name in accordance with the user option denote-file-name-components-order (Change the order of file name components).

• Standard note creation
• Create note using Org capture
• Create note with specific prompts using Org capture
• Create note with specific values using Org capture
• Create a note with the region’s contents
• Open an existing note or create it if missing
• Maintain separate directory silos for notes
• Exclude certain files from file prompts
• Exclude certain directories from all operations
• Exclude certain keywords from being inferred
• Create a controlled vocabulary for keywords
• Use Denote commands from the menu bar or context menu