Foam
👋 Welcome to your new Foam Knowledge Base!
Getting started
This documentation assumes that you have a GitHub account and have Visual Studio Code installed on your Linux/macOS/Windows machine.
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If you haven't yet, browse over to the main Foam documentation to get an idea of what Foam is and how to use it.
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Press "Use this template" button at foam-template (that's this repository!) to fork it to your own GitHub account. If you want to keep your thoughts to yourself, remember to set the repository private.
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Clone the repository to your local machine and open it in VS Code.
Open the repository as a folder using the
File > Open...menu item. -
When prompted to install recommended extensions, click Install all (or Show Recommendations if you want to review and install them one by one)
After setting up the repository, head to getting started to get familiar with your new knowledge base!
To learn more about how to use Foam, read the Recipes bubbles of the Foam documentation workspace.
And remember that you can always join our Foam community on Discord!
Using Foam
We've created a few Bubbles (Markdown documents) to get you started.
- inbox - a place to write down quick notes to be categorized later
- getting-started - learn how to use your Foam workspace
- todo - a place to keep track of things to do
In the docs directory you can find everything you need to learn the basics of Foam.
Submitting Issues
As you may have noticed, issues are disabled. With the goal to keep the project fairly easy to maintain, please file your issues in the main Foam repository: