LSP features

Please see the cheat sheet for a reference on how to trigger the following features from inside your text editor.

Extract/Inline Notes

The extract note action enables the creation of a new document from a section (header). This involves:

1. Creating a new file containing the selected content.
2. Adding a link to the newly created file.

The reverse operation, known as inline, allows you to:

1. Embed the content into the document with Block-reference.
2. Remove the link and injected file.

Both operations automatically adjust the header levels as needed to maintain proper document structure.

Navigation

IWE supports multiple ways to navigate your documents, including:

• Links Navigation: Implemented as Go To Definition LSP command.
• Table of Contents: Provided as Document Symbols to the editor.
• Backlinks List: A backlinks list compiles references or citations linking back to the current document.

Search

Search is one of the key features. IWE creates all possible document paths by considering the block-references structure. This means it can come up with lists like:

Readme - Features
Readme - Features - Navigation
Readme - Features - Search

And provide this list to your text editor as Workspace Symbols.

This allows for context-aware fuzzy searching, making it easier for you to find what you need.

The search results are ordered by page-rank which is based on the number of references to the target note.

Text structure normalization / formatting

LSP offers auto-formatting, which typically kicks in when you save your work. This feature helps tidy things up. Here's what gets cleaned up:

1. Updating link titles to the header of the linked document.
2. Adjusting header levels to ensure tree structure.
3. Updating the numbering of the ordered lists.
4. Fixing newlines, indentations in lists, and much more.

Inlay hints

Note header inlay hint shows parent document title and links counter

Block reference hint includes indicator ⎘ with a counter of document usages ⎘³

Auto-complete

IWE can suggest links as you type using the standard LSP code completion feature.

Text manipulation

IWE offers a range of actions to help you perform context-aware transformations on your notes. The actions can be called with the "code actions" LSP menu of your editor. Some of the actions available are:

• Transforming lists to headers/sections and vice-versa.
• Changing list type (bullet/ordered).

Header levels normalization

IWE reads and understands nested structures based on headers. It identifies sub-header relationships. Markdown allows header structures where the nesting isn't clear, like:

## First Header

# Second Header

IWE automatically fixes the header levels to ensure they're nested correctly. So the example above corrects to:

# First Header

# Second Header

Removing unnecessary levels

IWE can normalize the headers structure by dropping unnecessary header levels, for example:

# First header

### Second header

Will be normalized by dropping unnecessary levels and will look like:

# First header

## Second header

Files renaming

With IWE, you can rename the note file and automatically update all the references throughout your entire library using the rename LSP refactoring feature.