Comment by flkiwi
1 day ago
I essentially have that with the templates I'm using with Silverbullet. Organically developed metadata based on categories that don't actually exist anywhere.
I'll spin up a Trillium instance soon and see if it's still not for me (but I uh won't approach it with that mindset).
Does Silverbullet support amending existing instances with the updated metadata when modifying the template? Does it let you extend templates from templates (e.g. a "Colleague" is a "Person" + some specific properties like "Department", "Joined on")?
One way to go with your experiment would be to create an inbox¹ where all the new notes go (or use a day note² if you want calendar support) and a side notes hierarchy called "Collections" with subfolders like "Persons", "Companies", … each having their own Template³. That way, when you are in a new note and need to create a reference to a note that doesn't yet exist, it will pull from the available templates and create the new note from it. The template note under "Collections" will retain the backlink to all instances. Just like that you got yourself something as capable as Tana's supertags⁴.
¹: https://triliumnext.github.io/Docs/Wiki/attributes.html ²: https://triliumnext.github.io/Docs/Wiki/day-notes.html ³: https://triliumnext.github.io/Docs/Wiki/template.html ⁴: https://tana.inc/supertags