Organize Your Knowledge

Group documents by source directory with patterns, includes, and excludes. Search specific collections or across everything.

Key Benefits

• Multiple document sources
• Glob patterns for filtering
• Include/exclude rules
• Per-collection search

Example Commands

gno collection add ~/notes --name notes gno collection list gno search 'term' -c notes

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Quick Start Guide CLI Reference

What Are Collections?

Collections are named groups of documents from specific directories. They let you:

• Organize different types of content
• Search within specific scopes
• Apply different patterns per source

Creating Collections

At Initialization

gno init ~/notes --name notes --pattern "**/*.md"

Adding More

gno collection add ~/work/docs --name work
gno collection add ~/research --name papers --pattern "**/*.pdf"

Collection Configuration

Each collection can have:

collections:
  - name: notes
    path: /Users/you/notes
    pattern: "**/*.md"
    exclude:
      - .git
      - node_modules
      - "*.tmp"
    languageHint: en

  - name: work
    path: /Users/you/work/docs
    pattern: "**/*"
    include:
      - "*.md"
      - "*.pdf"

Searching Collections

Search Everything

gno search "important topic"

Search Specific Collection

gno search "meeting notes" -c notes
gno query "project deadline" --collection work

List Collections

gno collection list
gno collection list --json

Use Cases

• notes: Personal Obsidian/Logseq vault
• work: Company documentation
• papers: Research PDFs
• code: Project README files