Welcome to your new foam workspace, let’s get you started.
if you are already familiar with Foam and don’t need help, just remove the
docsfolder for a clean repo.
Let’s go through this to set up your repo:
if you are new with VS Code, see how to [[get-started-with-vscode]] and how to [[use-keyboard-shortcuts-for-editing]]
you can navigate the links between your notes by cmd+click (or ctrl+click on Windows) on a wikilink. You can go back with ctrl+-. Here, go to your [[inbox]]
to see how your notes are connected, execute the Foam: Show Graph command. See [[graph-visualization]].
#tags can be used to further organize your content. Look at the Tag Explorer view on the left panel to find and navigate the tags in your knowledge base. See [[tags-and-tag-explorer]].
Foam supports [[spell-checking]] via VS Code.
You can also paste images in your Foam, just press cmd+alt+v to create the image file and link to it from your note. See [[paste-images-from-clipboard]].
You can use Foam for your daily notes, or journaling. Execute now the Foam: Open Daily Note command to create a new file in your journal folder. See [[daily-notes]].
Want to see how to manage your tasks? Go to the [[todo]] note
The section at the end of this file contains wikilink definitions, which enable navigation of your notes from GitHub’s web UI, and in general to make [[wikilinks]] understood by any Markdown parser. See [[link-reference-definitions]].
To explore all the Foam settings, press cmd+,, then Extensions > Foam
Living within VS Code, Foam can be customized in many ways! Look at the Foam Recipes for ideas!
Join the Foam community on Discord, introduce yourself and leave a message on how you found Foam and how the onboarding went :) We are always keen to do better
Take the Foam Welcome survey! It helps us better understand your need and how we can make Foam better and better for you :)
Foam doesn’t do all this magic on its own, it relies on some amazing extensions. Look at their documentation if you want to fully unlock the possibilities!
Here they are:
A special mention goes to Markdown Links and Markdown Notes which have now been replaced by our own implementation but were foundational to Foam’s beginnings.