VS Knowledge Notes

VSCode extension for managing your knowledge.

Tested at Windows only.

Feature

• Quick access to your knowledge via activity bar.
• Use read-only mode for safely viewing.
• Open markdown as preview by one action when read-only mode.
• Add tags to your note and show tag tree view.
• Search in your notes via command pallette.

TBA

• Manage revision your note by git.

Get Started

Execute VS Knowledge Notes: Set Notes Directory or click Set Notes Directory button on side menu for set note saving directory.

File Operations

You can operate file in notes directory by GUI, commands and keyboard shortcuts.

Commands

• VS Knowledge Notes: New File
• VS Knowledge Notes: New Folder

Keyboard Shortcuts

Deleted files will be moved to the Trash.

Display Mode

VS Knowledge Notes has two display mode. You can toggle display mode via statusbar or VS Knowledge Notes: Toggle Display Mode command.

Edit Mode

Edit mode is the same mode as normal vscode, so you can edit file as you like.

View Mode

View mode is for reading only. File is added read-only attribute and markdown file is opened as preview.

To preview markdown, you can use vscode standard or Markdown Preview Enhanced. See Settings.

Tags

You can set tags for your notes. The tags you set will be displayed in the side menu.

You can set the tag as follows.

---
tags: [software/algorithm, math]
---

Tags can be hierarchized by delimiting them with a /. The delimiter can be changed freely. See Settings.

Search

You can search in notes via VS Knowledge Notes: Search In Notes command. Use the button in the upper right for toggling match case, match whole word and use regex.

Settings