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Foam File Format#

This file is an example of a valid Foam file. Essentially it's just a markdown file with a bit of additional support for mediawiki-style [wiki-links](../wiki-links.md).

Here are a few specific constraints, mainly because our tooling is a bit fragmented. Most of these should be eventually lifted, and our requirement should just be "Markdown with [wiki-links](../wiki-links.md):

  • It needs to have a single top level # Heading.
  • This will be used as document title.
  • File name should not contain spaces, e.g. foam-file-format.md is a valid name, but Foam File Format.md is not.
  • This is a temporary limitation and will be lifted in future versions.
  • Technically this actually works already, but may have some edge cases you don't want to deal with if you can avoid it.
  • File name should have extension .md or .markdown
  • This is a temporary limitation and will be lifted in future versions.
  • At least .mdx will be supported, but ideally we'll support any file that you can map to Markdown language mode in VS Code
  • In addition to normal Markdown Links syntax you can use [[media-wiki]] links. See wiki-links for more details.