you can right click and click

go to definition

to verify

Ah. Yes. When I right click and click

go to definition

, it creates a file called

erin | People.family.erin.md

and opens up the dendron window for me to choose either the new file or the existing

people.family.erin.md

file.

And the Backlinks only works for that newly created file

Man. I am so sorry for wasting your time. It's all working correctly now.

> Developer: Reload Window

did it for me

all good. glad it was resolved.

reload window

usually solves 99% of problems 🙂

Hi @User I've found a post about visualizing a Zettelkasten. I thought you could like it. https://www.alexchamessian.com/post/visualizing-your-zettelkasten/

thanks for the tip, will add that to my reading list. zettelkasten seems to have really risen in popularity this year

Yep this is the Zk year! I found the article googleing about if it is possible to write zettls with R markdown.

👋

Good to be here! For some reason, the Preview panel is not rendering checkboxes..

is the background of your preview pane white?

if not, you might be using the wrong preview (see https://discordapp.com/channels/717965437182410783/735365126227493004/736960518312558613)

otherwise, make sure there's a space

[ ]

btw the brackets

Gotcha, would recommend adding that in the Wiki!

on the todos for this week 😅

welcome @User @User 👋 let me know if you have any thoughts or questions about dendron or non-dendron related things 🙂

Hi! I thought I might as well check out Dendron as I'm using Foam myself (which im sure is something youve heard of), to see the differences and hopefully contribute ideas to both projects 😄

yep, i've heard of it 🙂

my thoughts of the dendron vs foam comparison:

Foam pieces together a bunch of different plugins to create a markdown based note taking experience. It's highly flexible and provides a "Roam like" way of taking notes. It is otherwise un-opinionated about note taking methodologies and is a [testing ground](https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo/issues/9#issuecomment-658381111) for note taking ideas. Dendron is a highly opinionated note taking tool that focuses on what I'm calling "structured note taking". It provides the freedom of Roam's "every note exists everywhere philosophy" while offering structure through flexible hierarchies. To that end, we've introduced some Dendron specific ways of doing things - eg. path based lookup and schemas.

Dendron is all about letting you work with notes at scale - I created it to handle my personal knowledge base of 20k markdown notes.

I think both approaches are very valuable 😄

agreed - I think this is a space that benefits from multiple approaches, especially since the way people learn and retain information is highly personalized to a specific individual. overall, excited that the note taking space is getting more buzz lately and looking forward to collectively pushing it forward!

> How does the dendron graph handle 20k notes? For me the original graph lags heavily with 1.5k notes

the graph view is still experimental, which is called out in the docs: https://www.dendron.so/notes/587e6d62-3c5b-49b0-aedc-02f62f0448e6.html 😅

when we talk about scale, we specifically mean that lookup continues to scale past 20k notes. by scale, i'm referring to both machine and human performance. the reason is the hierarichal structure of your notes: this partitions the number of items that both the human and the computer have to filter to get to a specific note. this is actually more important on the human side (a computer can hold 20k entities easily, a human will need to chunk it into something smaller)

now mandatory caveat that performance depends on how you construct your hierarchies (eg. if you put all your notes under a single note and effectively create a flat folder, then things might be difficult for you to find again). in that sense, its similar to how most databases scale - by finding better partitions (aka hierarchies) to more evenly distribute the information

Interesting insight. I remember TiddlyMap only showing neighboured notes up to a specific depth to make it snappy

yeah, i think that makes a lot of sense. in dendron, it might be just showing notes in your current hierarchy or limiting the number of notes at each level