recipes

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.