Deft Filenames

I’ve written a couple of times about Deft, which I described as a lightweight alternative to Org Mode. I’m still not using it for the reasons that I gave in those posts but lots of people are. One of those people, Vivek Haldar, liked it very much but had a problem. He had a bunch of pre-existing notes that used the filename as the subject of the note whereas Deft uses names of the form deft-xxx. He wanted to integrate his existing notes with Deft so he wrote a patch for Deft that added an option to use his method. Jason Blevin, the author of Deft, accepted his patch and added it to his source tree. Thus if you’re interested in Deft but were holding back because you already had notes with descriptive filenames, you no longer have an excuse not to try it out.