How to exclude daily notes from org-roam-node-find

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daily notes is not store in the same directory as org-roam-directory

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Do you want the daily notes to be still in Org-roam database for some reason and exclude them only from org-roam-node-find? If so, you can use the directory as the key to exclude them — you should be able to use the FILTER-FN — see the doc string of node-find command. I believe there are some examples in this forum if you search.

You can also exclude daily notes completely from the database. See a user option — I can’t look up the exact name right now (no PC with me) but something like org-roam-exclude… I think. It works with regexp.

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Assuming that your daily notes have a filetag, e.g., #+filetags: :dailies:, then one can also use this tag as a FILTER-FN.

E.g.,

(defun my/org-roam-node-find-no-dailies ()
  "Like org-roam-node-find but hides nodes tagged :dailies:."
  (interactive)
  (org-roam-node-find
   nil   ;; OTHER-WINDOW
   nil   ;; INITIAL-INPUT
   (lambda (node)
     (not (my/org-roam-node-daily-p node)))))

(defun my/org-roam-node-daily-p (node)
  "Return non-nil if NODE belongs to a daily file tagged :dailies:."
  (member "dailies" (org-roam-node-tags node)))

One can then remap the bindings for org-roam-node-find to my/org-roam-node-find-no-dailies, e.g., (“C-c r f” . my/org-roam-node-find-no-dailies).

Similarly, one can apply the filter-fn to other roam functions, like node-insert

(defun my/org-roam-node-insert-no-dailies ()
  "Like `org-roam-node-insert` but excludes nodes tagged :dailies:."
  (interactive)
  (org-roam-node-insert
   (lambda (node)
     (not (my/org-roam-node-daily-p node)))))