In the `book` template, the sidebar is rendered on the left side. The sidebar tree is determined from the directory layout of the Markdown or Org files.
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The sidebar tree is collapsed by default. But this can be disabled by setting
template.sidebar.collapsed
tofalse
in YAML configuration -
The ordering of children in the tree is determined in the following order (this is also the order in which Obsidian-style queries results are rendered by default):
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if
template.sidebar.folders-first
is set totrue
(defaultfalse
), directories are put before single notes, respecting the other order criteria. Otherwise, directories and notes will be interleaved. -
If the
order
frontmatter metadata exists, use that as the primary sort key. - If the note has a H1 title, use that as the secondary sort key; otherwise, use the note filename as the secondary sort key.
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if