Note group

A group is a named configuration section used to override note creation rules for specific directories. This allows you to use your notebook very differently depending on the type of note created. For a practical example, take a look at maintaining a daily journal.

Declaring a new group

To add a new group to your configuration file, declare a new [group.<name>] section. It takes a single optional property paths, which is the list of directories belonging to this group.

[group.journal]
paths = [
    "journal/daily",
    "journal/weekly"
]

You can also use glob patterns in paths.

[group.journal]
paths = ["journal/*"]

If you omit paths, the directory named after the group will be inferred. Note the double quotes when using spaces or slashes for subdirectories.

# This will automatically apply to the `citations/web` directory
[group."citations/web"]

Overriding note configuration and extra variables

You can override the global note configuration and extra user variables for a given group.

[group.journal.note]
filename = "{{format-date now}}"
template = "journal.md"

[group.journal.extra]
author = "Mickaël"

Choose a group dynamically

If you prefer to keep multiple groups in a single directory, you can specify which group to use when creating a new note explicitly.

$ zk new --group journal