<h1 id="stub-note">Stub Note<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#stub-note"></a></h1>
<p>A stub note is an in-memory creation (without writing files). Stubs mainly exist to help with navigation and to make it easier to create missing notes in the hierarchy. </p>
<p>This is best explained with an example. Let's say you have the following real notes:</p>
<ul>
<li>a1</li>
<li>a1.a2.a3-I</li>
<li>a1.a2.a3-II</li>
<li>a1.a2.a3-III</li>
<li>a1.b2.b3-I</li>
<li>a1.b2.b3-II</li>
<li>a1.b2.b3-III</li>
</ul>
<p>Two stubs will be created in the above scenario:</p>
<ul>
<li>a1.a2</li>
<li>a1.b2</li>
</ul>
<p>These stubs help with navigation so that instead of having 6 notes directly under note <code>a1</code>, <code>a1</code> now has 2 children: <code>a1.a2</code> and <code>a1.b2</code>. Each of these in turn has 3 children of their own. <code>a1.a2</code> has <code>a1.a2.a3-I</code>, <code>a1.a2.a3-II</code>, and <code>a1.a2.a3-III</code>, while <code>a1.b2</code> has <code>a1.b2.b3-I</code>, <code>a1.b2.b3-II</code>, and <code>a1.b2.b3-III</code>, making the hierarchy much more manageable.</p>
<h3 id="characteristics-of-a-stub-note">Characteristics of a stub note:<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#characteristics-of-a-stub-note"></a></h3>
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<li>A stub cannot be a leaf note.</li>
<li>A stub must have a descendant that is a real file note.
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<li>If all stub children are removed, the stub note disappears.</li>
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</li>
<li>A stub can have a stub as a child. Inversely, a stub can have a stub as a parent.
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<li>As long as there is a descendant leaf that is a real note.</li>
</ul>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
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<li><a href="/notes/ixsw1r23lg9pc4lkr19f94s">ConnectorNoteInBundle</a></li>
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