QOwnNotes + Github + Grav

[antonio24073]

Hi,

This question seems to be about grav but there is very little knowledge of grav that you need... it's more about qownnotes. This is an explanation if you want to see the possible solutions you can skip to the end.

I'm trying to sync my QOwnNotes and Grav with git and github.

I'm using this grav plugin:

https://github.com/trilbymedia/grav-plugin-git-sync

This is the grav user folder structure:

.git
.gitignore
accounts
cli
config
data
pages
plugins
themes

This user folder is the git root foder, so the .gitignore is in it. The .gitignore is like this:

/*
!/pages
!/media

So in the grav-plugin-git-sync, I'm syncing 2 folders, pages and I made a media folder to grav user folder.

In my github repo stay like this:

pages/
pages/01-home
pages//01-home/default
media/

I did the git clone in my local machine and open with the QOwnNotes. So when I save an image, it saves in the media folder.

But if I do git commit ... git push ... and sync in the grav it works fine, but the user folder isn't accessible in the front end in the grav. Consequently, the media folder isn't accessible too. The unique folder accessible is pages folder where are the markdowns.

Tries:

• If I open the QOwnNotes in the pages folder to let create a media folder inside pages folder, it create another .git in the pages foder. The attachments in the grav will be showed but QOwnNotes auto commit doesn't work and the attachments will not be showed in the grav admin.
• if I use grav prefixes like ![my image](user://themes/mytheme/images/my-image.jpg) I need to have changing all time the urls. And after change the image disappear in the QOwnNotes.

Some solutions could be:

• save the image in the nested folders, side a side with the markdowns. This is the better solution because the grav admin plugin recognize the medias in the dash.
• let change the media folder path. This would be an easier change to develop, but it wouldn't look as good

best regards

[antonio24073]

I was searching for another software.. and the zettlr does something similar.. it lets to save the image and it saves side a side with th markdown or in something that you specify, and resize it. It has too a unified view and editor that is interesting too. The qOwnNotes has another cool features but could you take as an example.

[pbek]

I had no issues with vuepress doing blog posts with QOwnNotes in https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/tree/main/webpage/src/blog.

Can you do symlinks to places where things need to go?

[antonio24073]

I'll take a look

[antonio24073]

I saw the vuepress Try it online. Maybe it works fine. But I use aapanel and, with it, the grav has an one-click install. The grav has more market share, more stars in github and apparently less learning curve. Vuepress could be better to a vue or javascript developer.

I always think that this QOwnNotes media system is strange. It leaves everything mixed up and you can't delete the media if you want to delete the markdown. It shouldn't be that big a change in terms of development to implement and it would help QOwnNotes a lot.

I had this same problem in the past with something else that I don't remember but there are other threads here on QOwnNotes git with people asking for this.

Well, that's a suggestion. I don't know the conditions under which QOwnNotes is developed. Whether or not you want to add it to the list of new features is your choice. Thanks

[pbek]

I always think that this QOwnNotes media system is strange. It leaves everything mixed up

Can you please elaborate on what you are talking about?
Btw. did you see that checkbox?

It means you insert a file and don't copy it to the media folder. And you can always just type markdown in by hand.

and you can't delete the media if you want to delete the markdown.

It shouldn't be that big a change in terms of development to implement and it would help QOwnNotes a lot.

If you think it's easy, I'll look at your PR. 😉

Be sure to do the same for attachments too, tho. And have fun with all the edge cases, for example when people are trying to use a folder that is anywhere in the file-system or on a different drive (on Windows) or when it's the same as the attachment folder or when a changes the folder in portable mode or when the new path breaks all the Markdown link detection systems. And then try to move a note and make sure the migration of the paths also works. And we probably need to migrate all media and attachment paths in existing notes, when the user changes the folder. Probably the settings need to be per note folder, because otherwise you will break the other folders. And the settings must somehow be part of the notes.sqlite file, because those settings need to be the same on all different installations of QOwnNotes... 🤔

Those are just the first few things that come to mind...

[pbek]

if I use grav prefixes like I need to have changing all time the urls. And after change the image disappear in the QOwnNotes.

You can do whatever you like with media files when you are inserting them with the help of:
https://www.qownnotes.org/scripting/hooks.html#insertmediahook

You can try to just rewrite the path to a grav path.

Anyway, I don't really understand what issue grav or grav-plugin-git-sync have. 🤷🏻