How can I create an Index file?

Troubleshooting
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I have a handful of pages made with org-roam-find-file and there are some links between them. Looking at the documentation, it seems like I should be able to bring up a list of all my pages with org-roam-jump-to-index, but when I enter this command, it says “Index file does not exist. Would you like to create it?”. I create it…it’s an org file with no contents. I kill the buffer and then re-enter the command, still a blank org file. I rebuild the db, re-enter the command, same.

Where have I gone wrong?

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When you use org-capture to create a file, as here, you need to issue a command when you’re done. I think that command is C-c C-c.

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Thanks @bruce, I should have said that in my original question – I am closing the capture buffer with that command.

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I see same thing. Looks like a bug to me.

I added a bug report linked to here.

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I don’t think the index file is intended to self-populate with any content/links at all. My understanding is that it’s just a convenience function for getting to an index page that I maintain myself. I use it as an index of links to documents I’m currently interested in for whatever reason. It’s my version of the sidebar of starred “Shortcuts” in Roam.

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@jbaty - the point is after creating the file through these steps, O-R does not subsequently find the file.

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It seems to work for me, but I’ve had an index.org file for a week or more already so maybe it’s only an issue with newer versions?

The “it’s supposed to be empty” part of my answer was based on @rcorty writing that "…it seems like I should be able to bring up a list of all my pages with org-roam-jump-to-index" which I thought meant they expected something different than what I was used to. Sorry if I misunderstood.

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I believe the thing that I saw in the documentation actually has to do with the deft package. I mistakenly thought it was something org-roam made. Might be a good idea in the long run to have the screen shots in the documentation taken on something pretty close to vanilla emacs.

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Could be. It had been about two weeks since I updated this morning.

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Makes sense. It does make me wonder about a function that would let me mark a bunch of entries in the db (ala Dired) and have org-roam generate a list of links to all of them in the current buffer. I’d use that in the index file for sure :slight_smile:

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Not too hard to add :smiley:

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