Modifiers

Modifiers allow you to update the behavior of lookup. You can trigger a modifier by clicking on the modifier icon or passing custom arguments to dendron.lookup when defining a custom keyboard shortcut.

Modifiers are divided into 6 categories:

• filter
• selection
• note
• split
• effect
• other

filterType

Filter notes that show up during lookup

directChildOnly

By default, unless you are at the root of your workspace, dendron does a fuzzy search of all notes that match your current hierarchy prefix. This is useful to see your entire sub-tree in one glance but can be overwhelming if you have a lot of notes.

Dendron's directChildFilter is a toggle that limits lookup to just the next level in the tree. This is useful for exploring your hierarchy one level at a time.

• filter all notes that are not the direct children of the current note

selectionType

Determines behavior of selected text when creating a new note via lookup

selectionExtract

selection is extracted to newly created note (default)

selection2link

selection is turned into a link to newly created note. note path is set to {current-path}.{slug-of-selection}

• a slug is the human readable portion of an url

• you can control this behavior using dendron.linkSelectAutoTitleBehavior

noteType

Modifies note path

journal

Create a journal note

scratch

create a scratch note

splitType

If set, open note in a new split

horizontal

When opening a note via lookup, you can decide to have the note open in a horizontal split.This works when you're creating new notes or opening an existing note

effectType

Effects modify lookup in additional ways that are not covered by the other modification categories

multiSelect

You can toggle multi-select within lookup. This lets you work with multiple notes at once. You can combine this with other modifiers like splitType and the copyWikiLink modifier.

copyWikiLink

Copy the results of a lookup as a wikilink.

Other Modifiers

Dendron has a few additional modifiers that can only be set programatically

noConfirm

If set, select first option from lookup without confirmation

• type: boolean

value

If set, have a custom value for lookup

• type: string