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Does Deepdwn use a database for any data?

A topic by jerkwad_robot created Jun 20, 2023 Views: 300 Replies: 4
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I am looking for a new markdown editor (Win 11 / Linux)

I am a fan of .md file organization without the complexities of a database. Does Deepdwn use a database in any fashion?

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Hello!

Deepdwn does use a (local) sqlite database exclusively for tracking word count changes over time (for this feature). It contains only a word count, timestamp and filename.

For everything else, the markdown files themselves are the source of truth, and are processed when launching Deepdwn. This includes the content of your files for search and display, all file tagging and categorization, directory structure, and all other metadata (whether a document is pinned, or enforces a right-to-left direction, etc). This is actually one of Deepdwn’s core features/principles.

That said, there are some features that I would like to add that will rely on either external files or a database, namely more powerful search tools, and edit history storage that can’t realistically be stored in markdown(+yaml), so those may be added in the future.

A way to import databased into it? If thats possible.  And maybe a way to view them properly

What data would you like to import into it? How would you like to view that data? What kind of features are you looking for?

Now I tend to close the window a lot when I want to go back to viewing my data, Maybe a way to scroll the dataset table and note under it. Or open it in another nested window?  I work with CVS/Excel. I like the current ways to do tables but when it comes to something premade I have to do a lot of back and forth.