Configuration file

Eleventy Notes provides several configuration options to customize the app. All of them are optional, but a basic configuration is recommended.

Basic configuration

Create a new file app.js in the root of the project, next to your notes. Add a custom title (shown in the header), a description (not shown but used by search engines) and define the language of your content:

const { defineConfig } = require(".app/app-config");

module.exports = defineConfig({
  title: "John's Notes",
  description: "The personal notes of John Doe",
  lang: "en",
});

TypeScript

If you use an editor like VS Code, you can add type-checking to your configuration file by adding the following comment at the top of the file:

// @ts-check

This will warn you about invalid configuration options.

Supported configurations

In addition to the basic configuration, you can also:

• Adjust the URL of your notes, see Files and Folders
• Add an edit link to your notes, see Edit link
• Customize the notes in the sidebar or add links to other websites, see Sidebar
• Customize the content of the panel, see Panel
• Configure custom properties in the panel, see Custom Properties
• Change the color scheme, see Themes
• Customize the behavior of Wikilinks, see Wikilinks
• Create mappings for your tags, see Tags

Summary

The following example shows the supported configuration options:

modul.exports = defineConfig({
  title: "John's Notes",
  description: "The personal notes of John Doe",
  lang: "en",
  customProperties: {
    properties: [],
  },
  theme: {
    color: "sky",
  },
  editThisNote: {
    url: "https://example.com/edit/{{file}}",
  },
  sidebar: {
    links: [],
    sections: [],
  },
  panel: {
    tableOfContents: true,
    tags: true,
    customProperties: true,
    incomingLinks: true,
    outgoingLinks: true,
    externalLinks: true,
  },
  wikilinks: {
    autoLabel: "ref",
    anchorLabel: "none",
  },
  tags: {
    map: {},
  },
});