at least dendron has an active github and wiki, it's a knowledge base after all but there are some major projects out there that just keep it all in discord and that's pretty awful

it seems like an area that dendron will improve upon

yeah, I can't imagine how we could have everything here as ephemeral messages and maintain the project.

It's weird to me that you have some incredibly talented people in tech failing to realize this

I'm sure their internal docs are great, but that's the same situation almost

documentation isn't a solved problem I guess 😄 and Dendron aims to be flexible for everyone.

It would be beneficial to post directly to Discord (or StackOverflow, etc) directly from Dendron. Where each "post" turned into a thread synced between your local machine and the Discord server. Same thing with email. Writing posts, emails and responses first in Dendron and keeping them in sync would be a huge foot forward in PKM.

The goal is to live in your text editor, cutting all disparate programs down to 1.

But VS Code (and by proxy Dendron) still have a ways to go in this arena (writing emails/posts, surfing the web from inside vsc, etc.). You can already do these sorts of things from say, Emacs. But good luck getting over the learning curve!

My style of computing is quite different from yours, I think - I tend to prefer lots of small, specialized tools integrated together over monolithic programs. I hope Dendron will continue to be useful for both of those disparate kinds of workflows!

Right on. I want to break context as little as possible. Multi-window views of the same program vs. many programs. Only one set of keyboard shortcuts to learn!

I make all of my stuff as vim-like as possible 😆

dendron integration with other tools

Does anyone know how to automatically create tag notes after a #tag is used within another note? Also does anyone know how to visualize all of the notes that are linked to a specific tag note within the note graph? Or can this only be done by looking at the backlinks?

if you hit

ctrl-enter

while the typing cursor is over a the text of a #tag, it should make the note, unless there's something interfering with the binding - not sure if that's automatic enough for your use case. As for visualizing the notes with the tag, running the show note graph command from the page corresponding with the tag should show you that by default - the toggle between showing the full graph and showing the local graph around the currently opened note should be in the top right of the graph UI

the greenhouse talk event time is in which timezone?

It's at 4 PM Pacific Time. Sorry, I realized I mangled the timestamp a bit! Should be fixed now. The lu.ma and discord event descriptions have the correct timing, in any case. The discord timestamp formatting is supposed to show you the event time in whatever timezone corresponds with your locale

Do you find yourself writing a LOT of HTML in your Markdown notes?! - I do! - Especially around

<img>

formatting, images with

<a>

tags (hyperlinks),

<pre>

formatted text

(I know Markdown is meant to be lightweight and easy. I just always find myself expanding it with HTML 🙂 )

when it comes to images, we have some extended syntax to better support formatting without diving into html -> https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/a91fd8da-6895-49fe-8164-a17acd8d9a17.html#extended-images

For sure, those help quite a bit!

A formatting problem I'm stuck on atm, is how to preserve whitespace when publishing.

There are

,

&ensp

,

&ensm

ways to preserve whitespace, but these are distraction to me in the Markdown.

<pre>

tags are the easiest, but then the md loses its formatting (like bold, etc)

seems like the kind of thing that table formatting is suited for, although that has its own inconveniences, of course

Good point! I'll try that!

Thank you

Hm. Yeah, it looks pretty good in preview, but youre right, when used as a snippet, the tables has some inconveniences.

How does the

=foo

search work? Is it searching only the filenames and not the note titles? Does it need to match the entire note? I can't figure it out from experiments...

I had similar troubles trying to track habits in the most compact form that looked nice both in preview and editor without using tables (which are not compact by any stretch). Ended up with using

-

as a spacer since whitespace will collapse in preview and I didn't want to mess with non-standard characters:

Seems that it tries to match the value perfectly. For some reason, only first level notes will match, so

=root

and

=inbox

will match, but not

=inbox.ref

. Using double quotes doesn't help. 😦