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Backstory: So there is all these notes app like Evernote Onenote... but I do not want to be locked into a system and only are going to use my laptop. So I thought why not use vim to edit markdown files which are saved in a Dropbox folder. And it would be nice to have tags working on it as well but there are a few problems with tags, I can't easily rename them.

Problem: How can I change tags and files without changing the tag location? Eg a tag called flying potato project and I want to rename it to potato express and change the file from potato-idea.md to potato-idea-for-ever.md but still keeping the tag location.

Maybe something with ids? Eg the tag for the text about potato express could be @253

INFO EDIT: If you don't know what vim tags is then have a look at this website http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Browsing_programs_with_tags

Edit: This post has also been posted here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47932055/use-tags-in-vim-for-notes and https://superuser.com/questions/1279464/how-to-use-tags-in-vim-for-notes

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  • Please note that this is x-posted from superuser.com/q/1279464/572612
    – Herb
    Dec 27, 2017 at 14:11
  • Whats wrong with re-indexing the tags?
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Dec 27, 2017 at 15:07
  • @DavidBenKnoble It is fine if you can do it everywhere at ones. It's just a problem if some file I don't use often have a tag that is outdated.
    – J. Eng
    Dec 27, 2017 at 16:06
  • @HerbWolfe It is also here stackoverflow.com/questions/47932055/use-tags-in-vim-for-notes but it properly belongs here
    – J. Eng
    Dec 27, 2017 at 16:08
  • You shouldn't be cross posting the question, but when you do, you should refer back to the original posts.
    – Herb
    Dec 27, 2017 at 16:10

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This is not strictly speaking an answer to your question, but there are several plugins that provides a note-taking system for Vim, for instance:

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I've been experimenting with using Vim keyboard bindings for OneNote 2016 using this library: https://github.com/rcmdnk/vim_ahk

Blogged about it here: https://davemateer.com/2020/04/10/OneNote-with-Vim

It is so nice to be able to edit in OneNote using Vim bindings!

Update 23rd April 2020 Thanks to @D.Ben Knoble for pointing out that I really should answer this more fully. So this isn't really an answer to the question but rather a thought that OneNote 2016 (which is now supported again) with Vim bindings work quite well:

  • Use Autohotkey
  • Use bindings to give a Vim like experience
  • Use https://github.com/ililim/dual-key-remap to map the caps-lock key to escape (which is a C library, and I found preferable to another Autohotkey binding)
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  • Welcome to Vi and Vim, Dave! Thanks for sharing the knowledge. It would be great if you could put the relevant info from the links in your post, both to show how you answer the question and to avoid link rot. Thanks!
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Apr 20, 2020 at 13:24
  • Thanks @D.BenKnoble - have updated the answer.
    – Dave Mateer
    Apr 23, 2020 at 13:12

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