Is there anyway to do live excerpts between two notes?
If I have Note A, is there a way to have a section of note A show up in Note B?
If I update Note A, when I view Note B I would like to see the new updates I made to Note A. Other tools also sometimes call this “Snippets”
Welcome @hortitude
You need to define things more clearly. Notes aren’t a format. They’re just a use of a file.
It’s not clear what you’re trying to do but DEVONthink supports a thing called file transclusion in Markdown documents. This allows displaying the content of some file types in another Markdown document. Enter the name of the file to be transcluded (displayed) in double braces, e.g., {{Monday.md}}, in a Markdown document. Autocompletion is supported while typing the name. Also, you can Control-drag and drop a document to transclude it.
Of course…sorry for not being more clear earlier. Indeed file transclusion is 90% of what I’m hoping for.
In my case I’m often using markdown documents but just as happy to use another document format if another one will offer the feature in full.
The missing part from file transfusion for me is that file transclusion will display 100% of the other file. What I’m hoping to achieve is only displaying a portion of the other document.
Imagine Document A.md looks like this:
all my section notes
other stuff
In Document B.md I would like to say
{{A.md#section 1}} and have that include the section 1 content.
Thanks for your help and the great application!
No worries, you’re welcome, and thanks for the kind words!
Sorry but no you can’t transclude parts of a document and the syntax you propose isn’t part of MultiMarkdown. Such a change would ideally be made by that developer.
PS: The syntax would likely be more like {{A.md#section1}} sans spaces and using the section id.