[Question] Handling many attributes per daily note

[PAK90]

I really like the look of Trilium; I've been looking for personal logging software for a while now. One thing that I want is many daily attributes, like the 'weight' example one. And by 'many' I mean probably 15+. Another thing I want to store is series data, for example an array of hourly temperature values. I could store this by using a string label presumably (unless it has a length limit), but the main problem with 15+ daily labels is the UI would get really crowded. Is there any alternative/preferred solution for this?

[zadam]

Hi, currently UI with a lot of promoted attributes can be busy, this was discussed in #1037 

But you mention series data and for that I'm not sure if labels are the best way to store it. Personally I do something very similar to what you do - storing quite a lot of daily data - I store them into per-day "data" note (actually JSON code note). See e.g. https://zadam.github.io/trilium/backend_api/BackendScriptApi.html#createDataNote

Advantage of this approach is that you can also easily store structured data. Disadvantage is that you need to script it which requires some programming effort ... (see https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Scripts )

[PAK90]

Oh that's cool, I didn't realise data notes were an option! That should solve a lot of issues. Is it possible to explicitly link a data note to a daily note? Or would it be implied by the creation date of the data note?

As for #1037 , will it be part of 0.43, and if so, when might we see 0.43? I might try to make a PR for this specific issue if 0.43 will still be a while.

[zadam]

Is it possible to explicitly link a data note to a daily note

I simply create data note under a daily note. Or if that's messy for you, you can also create in some other place and link it through a relation attribute. For some other things I create a label date=2020-05-27 using which I can retrieve it ...

Since this is something you kind of need to script, it's up to you how exactly you do it ..

As for #1037 , will it be part of 0.43, and if so, when might we see 0.43?

In a couple of weeks probably.

[Suncatcher]

Personally I do something very similar to what you do - storing quite a lot of daily data - I store them into per-day "data" note (actually JSON code note). See e.g. https://zadam.github.io/trilium/backend_api/BackendScriptApi.html#createDataNote

@zadam are data notes still an option? I didn't find mentioning about them in the Trilium wiki and Trilium help

[eliandoran]

@Suncatcher , they were removed somewhere in 2021. The implementation of the API is really simple, it just created a code note whose content was the JSON representation of the data you were passing to it.

You can see the implementation here: 79e7762

Nowadays you can also do the same with attachments, which does a better job of hiding the file from the tree, depending on the use case.

[Suncatcher]

is there any note type to store multiple attributes except attaching a JSON file? for me creating a JSON file is an extra step I'd like to avoid

[eliandoran]

@Suncatcher , no. Attributes are metadata for the note, not for the note content. It doesn't have to be JSON, it can be a simple text file like:

attribute1=value1
attribute2=value2