Foam

Recipes

A #recipe is a guide, tip or strategy for getting the most out of your Foam workspace!

• Contribute
• Take smart notes
• Discover
• Organise
• Write
• Version control
• Publish
• Collaborate
• Workflow
• Creative ideas
• Other

Contribute

• Start by reading [contribution-guide]
• If you discover features not listed here, we’d love to have them! [how-to-write-recipes].

Take smart notes

• Introduction to Zettelkasten [todo]
• Clip webpages with [web-clipper]
• Convert Microsoft Word files into Markdown with [markup-converter]

Discover

• Explore your notes using [graph-visualization]
• Discover relationships with [backlinking]
• Simulating [unlinked-references]

Organise

• Using [backlinking] for reference lists.

Write

• Link documents with [wikilinks].
• Use shortcuts for [creating-new-notes]
• Instantly create and access your [daily-notes]
• Add and explore [tags]
• Create [note-templates]
• Find [orphans]
• Use custom [note-macros] to create weekly, monthly etc. notes
• Draw [diagrams-in-markdown]
• Prettify your links, [automatically-expand-urls-to-well-titled-links]
• Style your environment with [custom-markdown-preview-styles]
• Paste and link [add-images-to-notes]
• [shows-image-preview-on-hover]
• Markdown All-in-One features [todo] [good-first-task]
  • Manage checklists
  • Automatic Table of Contents
  • Live preview markdown
  • More…
• VS Code Advanced Features [todo] [good-first-task]
  • Focus with Zen Mode
• Display content of other notes in the preview tab by [including-notes]

Version control

• Quick commits with VS Code’s built in [[git-integration]]
• Store your workspace in an auto-synced GitHub repo with [write-your-notes-in-github-gist]
• Sync your GitHub repo automatically using the GitDoc VSCode Plugin [automatic-git-syncing].

Publish

• Publish using official Foam template
  • Publish to [publish-to-github-pages]
  • Publish to [publish-to-gitlab-pages]
  • Publish to [publish-to-azure-devops-wiki]
  • Publish to [publish-to-vercel]
• Publish using community templates
  • [publish-to-netlify-with-eleventy] by @juanfrank77
  • [generate-gatsby-site] by @mathieudutour and @hikerpig
• Make the site your own by [publish-to-github].
• Render math symbols, by either
  • adding client-side [math-support-with-mathjax] to the default [publish-to-github-pages] site
  • adding a custom Jekyll plugin to support [math-support-with-katex]

Collaborate

• Give your team push access to your GitHub repo
• Real-time collaboration via VS Code Live Share [real-time-collaboration]
• Accept patches via GitHub PRs [todo]

Workflow

• Capture notes from Drafts app on iOS [capture-notes-with-drafts-pro]
• Capture notes from iOS Shortcuts [capture-notes-with-shortcuts-and-github-actions]

Creative ideas

Creative ideas welcome!

• Support Anki cards from notes like Remnote [todo]

See [contribution-guide] and [how-to-write-recipes].

Other

Thought of a recipe but don’t see a category for them? Add them here and we’ll organise them once we detect a theme.

See [contribution-guide] and [how-to-write-recipes].

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