doomemacs/modules/ui/deft

ui/deft

• Description
  • Maintainers
  • Module Flags
  • Plugins
• Prerequisites
• Configuration
  • Note

Description

Deft is a major mode for creating, browsing, and filtering notes written in plain text formats, such as org-mode, markdown, and LaTeX. It enables you to quickly jot down thoughts and easily retrieve them later.

Maintainers

This module has no dedicated maintainers.

Module Flags

This module provides no flags.

Plugins

• deft

Prerequisites

This module has no prerequisites.

Configuration

To use deft, you first need to specify the directory in which your notes are stored:

;; ~/.doom.d/config.el
(setq deft-directory "~/notes")

The default note format is org-mode. You can change this by setting the value of the variable deft-default-extension. Replacing the value with "md", for example, will change the default note format to markdown:

(setq deft-default-extension "md")

You may also want to alter the way titles and file names are automatically created by editing deft-use-filename-as-title and/or deft-use-filter-string-for-filename.

Further customization options can be found here: https://github.com/jrblevin/deft#other-customizations

Note

It is not recommended to re-enable deft's buffer auto-save.