hi y’all ,
Motivation for asking this question
until recently I have become aware of the drawback of having my journal in individual notes for each day, each week, each month, etc. Having too many individual notes creates clutters in the vault and makes it hard to make sense from past to present into the future - there’s more friction switching between notes than just scrolling down.
What I’m trying to do
Therefore, I am thinking about merging ALL of my previous journal notes into one single large note, and distinguishing each day, week, month, etc. using the 6 headings that markdown syntax allows me (i think that would be adequate), so the original filenames of the small notes turn into headings in the big note;
I imagine doing that will also allow backlinks pointing specifically to a particular day, week, month, etc., by typing for example [[Big Journal#2023-01-01]], but this is to be tested in real-life use.
The question in specificity
So does anyone have any experience to share regarding this topic? know any way to merge multiple .md note files into one .md note file while retaining the original filenames in the result automatically?
Got hundreds of journal notes. It will take ages to get this done manually.
My thanks for your time reading this xx