Automatic metadata / organization on captures
under review
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David Daniel
Beam is awesome at capturing content, particularly into notes, but saving info to daily notes makes re-discovery a bit more difficult.
What I’d love is to have something like an automatic “Captures” page, or some form of UI which aggregates all data I’ve saved across the web, organized by the domain (and ideally, subdomain / route) it was captured on.
So for example if i’m on somesite.com and capture something, I can go to somethign like a “captures” section in my notes, see “somesite.com”, and any notes I’ve taken there. It’d be _extra_ cool if that was hierarchical, ie captures from somesite.com/category would produce a “category” sub-section of somesite.com
Made a video to try and help explain: https://www.loom.com/share/98fb8e6a270749f4874c0c1c7498e315
Dom
under review
Thanks a lot for all the feedback. I think I get the idea and we’ll defintely do the “see linked notes when visiting website feature”.
The loom video has unfortunately expired.
Would you be able to re-upload it?
Thanks!!
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David Daniel
I don't love traditional folders like Obsidian, but the folder-concept (hierarchical structures) is super useful
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David Daniel
This sort of relates to https://beamapp.canny.io/feature-r/p/notes-manager, as well as https://beamapp.canny.io/feature-r/p/see-linked-notes-when-visiting-website which Dharam Kapila mentioned
FWIW, I really like Remnote's approach - 'folders' (documents in rem's language) can be created dynamically... a child block can be turned into a document, then later turned back into a block with no issue.
Fundamentally there's just one data structure ('rem') with children... 'documents' etc are just special metadata tags assigned to the basic data structure. Seems like beam is taking a somewhat similar approach with its data, so just want to make sure ya'll look at rem - I think it's a bit undervalued in the notes community, given their appraoch can do everything roam / logseq etc can do, but the opposite isn't true (converting a block to a page and back isn't straightforward in Roam / logseq, for example, and they don't handle hierarchy structures as smoothly)
Dharam Kapila
Plus one to this. Also maybe related to: https://beamapp.canny.io/feature-r/p/see-linked-notes-when-visiting-website
I would love for a way to filter and see all notes taken on a certain domain.
Dharam Kapila
A view akin to this:
