Integrating https://gitlab.com/protesilaos/denote with KDE. Inspired by a previous project, https://git.lneely.de/lkn/denotesrv, designed to make denote work with http://acme.cat-v.org/.

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README.md

kdenote

KDE integration plugins for Denote notes.

Components

Baloo extractor — KFileMetaData plugin that indexes denote file metadata (title, tags, date, signature) so Dolphin search, KRunner, and Baloo queries work on your notes.
Dolphin context menu — "Rename with Denote..." action for files that don't yet conform to the denote naming scheme.
Shared library — Denote filename parsing/building and frontmatter handling (YAML/Org/txt), used by both plugins.

Building

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DBUILD_TESTING=ON
make
make install

Dependencies

Qt 6
KDE Frameworks 6 (KFileMetaData, KIO, WidgetsAddons, ECM)
C++20 compiler

Configuration

If Baloo already indexes your home directory (the default), no configuration is needed — the extractor plugin activates automatically on the next index pass.

To immediately reindex existing notes after install:

balooctl index /path/to/your/notes

Denote filename format

YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS[==signature]--slugified-title[__tag1_tag2].ext

Examples:

20240315T120000--my-daily-note__journal_daily.md
20240315T120000==1a--project-plan__work.org

License

GPL-3.0-or-later