Good news for those of you who been following my posts [1, 2] on Protesilaos Stavrou’s Denote. The changes that I wrote about are now officially available in Version 2.2.0. The two main changes are the ones I wrote about—sorting in dynamic blocks and the denote dired buffer—but there are other significant enhancements as well.
One of those is a revamping of the rename functions to allow blank name components. You can read about these and the other changes in Prot’s announcement, which also links to some videos that describe and demonstrate these changes.
One of the really great things about this project is that Prot has taken pains to write a good manual and keep it up to date. As he says, the videos will eventually go out of date but the manual will always be the source of truth.
If you’re interested in a vaguely Zettelkasten-like note taking application, you should take a look at Denote. Its distinguishing feature is the systematic naming scheme that captures most of the significant metadata about a file in its name. That makes it easy to tell what the file’s about just from the name. If you want more information, take a look at the manual.