### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/1912

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<sup>Originally posted by **betweenwater** August 16, 2022</sup>
Hello,

I keep a journal of separate .md files, where the file name is just the creation date of each .md file. I just tested rendering it after using the `create-project <name> --type book` which is nice, but it doesn't look like wildcards can be used in the `chapters` option in the .yml file, akin to how it works for projects (see: https://quarto.org/docs/projects/quarto-projects.html#render-targets)?

Since I don't keep a daily journal and I have a growing number of entries I'd like to avoid adding the chapters manually. Could wildcards be added or are there other ways to automatically identify all .md files in the book directory and render them?</div>
dragonstyle
2022-08-16T11:11:49Z
jjallaire
books
v1.4
open
ability to include wildcards when defining book chapter targest
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1917