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Curious about why .mw instead of .md #6
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Because Markwhen is a seperate thing; it uses .mw files; it probably predates obsidian? more: https://markwhen.com |
As an Obsidian user, I am looking for a timeline plugin for planning and scheduling for a long time. So when you bring markwhen into Obsidian, I really like it and I think it is the best solution for my needs. So I really appreciate your great work on this. I think .md is more acceptable than .mv in Obsidian(I mean the file type). As we see the most popular and successful community plugin in Obsidian, Excalidraw. Excalidraw is a power sketching tool first and then brought into Obsidian by Zsolt Viczián. The file type of excalidraw file in Obsidian is .md instead of .excalidraw(the original file type of excalidraw file). Using .md can get a lot of features from Obsidian and many other community plugins. How to parse .md files as excalidraw in Obsidian? The answer is frontmatter. As we see all excalidraw files in obisidian with below frontmatter.
The other popular plugins use the similar way. kanban plugin:
markmind plugin:
Above plugins are using .md as the file type in Obsidian. Markwhen plugin has enormous potential to be popular in Obsidian. So I highly recommond you guys to consider using .md as the file type for markwhen files. (export .mw for using outside Obsidian just like what excalidraw plugin did) Again, thanks for your great work! |
On a related note, neither the title nor the content of the .mw files are returned in the obsidian search results (same with Omnisearch plugin, no results when I search for a note I created with mark-when plugin). I wonder if it is because Obsidian doesn't recognize them as notes, but as files. On the other hand, when searching for the notes created by excalidraw, I can find them using Omnisearch plugin, probably because the notes are stored as .md files behind the scene: |
Well if you were to check the omnisearch plugin you can see that the file population is done via "this.app.vault.getFiles" with an added filter I have checked if the obsidian detects the .mw files same way using the following
and getting the confirmation I checked the code over omnisearch for the filter behaviour the and it leads to the following: Red marks are unintended, so the solution is either enabling "index paths of unsupported files" which will index paths of any and all files without looking at the extensions, while this will index the path of .mw files, the content will not be indexed and paths of files with other extensions such as .mp4, .jpg etc. will be indexed which might be an unwanted side effect or adding mw to the additional TEXT files to index. with the second option above check will turn true, which will read the contents and upload to the cache |
Using the .md extension I guess the tasks created in the Gantt could be integrated with the Tasks and Reminder plugins. Combining with these plugins would be very beneficial in my opinion. |
While it would technically be possible to index |
Appreciate your work for bringing this great tool into Obsidian!
It is powerful tool and simple-to-use. I really like it.
I am very curious about why .mw instead of .md?
In Obsidian, .md can be manipulated by lots of plugins. So i think .md is better then .mw.
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