Here is a good summary of the two: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-markdown/

Here is the section on images: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/macros/images/

And positioning images: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/macros/image-position/ (😆 )

The macros are awesome. And the best thing is you can extend them. For example we have one for github issues (is documented in asciidoc docs) and you write something like

issues::dendron,345

and that transform into a link for that issue on gh

Thank you to make this amazing note taking tool! It feels at home when use vscode to manage my note with markdown 😆 I'm migrating from obsidian

we have a migration guide (and tooling) for obsidian users here -> https://dendron.so/notes/f9b4fc21-7613-4c8a-9257-cec4c06b67f9.html#obsidian 🙂

Comming back to the org-mode subject, I've just remembered this parser that has been written by (I guess) one of the org roam contributors https://github.com/rasendubi/uniorg This one is the most org-mode compliant that can be found IMHO

why is it sometimes so hard to get my thoughts down onto paper xD

same reason why communication is hard. there's always something lost in translation between whats in your head and when it makes contact with the world

This isn't directly related to Dendron, but I think this group might be the right kind to ask this question: How do you embrace being a generalist? I feel like I'm juggling too many interests and often times I find myself in a plataeu on the depth of knowledge / efficacy in the interests I have. Not to mention constantly failing to keep all my interests happy and fulfilled and feeling guilty for choosing to spend time on A rather than B, etc... Normally the cycle that I go through with a newfound interest is : 1. Find an interest (not actively looking for a new one, just happen to find one). 2. Dig deep into the rabbit hole, absorb as much information as I can (Dendron is helping in this front 😅). 3. Feel guilty that I'm abandoning my existing interests. 4. Step away from newfound interest for a while. 5. Come back only to hit a plataeu and not being able to allocate enough time on it to go past that wall. 6. Rinse and repeat. I've made it a goal to focus more on incremental growth than to beat myself up for stagnating, so I shall see how this goes. I'm curious of how other people in the similar situation managed.

(I should specify that I'm struggling to find the right mindset, rather than the right method.)

this resonates with me - i've spent a greater part of the last decade moving from interest to interest. what has helped me is to draw lessons and generalizations from my experience. this is what got me started on schemas in programming languages, instead of feeling like i'm learning yet another language, each language adds to my larger understanding of what a language is its extremely hard in a world of +7 billion people to go really deep into something and be the best at that. but being the best at an intersection of multiple things is very doable (eg. note-taking, taxonomies and programming) tldr: the mindset i try to use is learning - as long as I can learn from the experience and have a way to reference it, then its okay

i know @User does this thing where he bounces between interests but goes really deep when he's into something. he might have something more to add

Oh yeah this has been a challenge for me too. One change I've made that's working is to always have one (and only one) new goal at a time. Everything else is secondary and I'm not too worried if it drops but I have to make progress one the one thing at a time.

This goal can be either job, life, hobby etc. But the key is to have one

Great. You're doing reference to some theories from Philosoohy of language.

I can relate. I've had many interests, each of which took time away from the others. At the end of the day, there are many ways to go about alleviating the guilt you feel. It just depends on what you want from your experience of life. I used to struggle with this, until I changed my frame of mind around how it affects me. I have settled on the understanding that we will never have enough time to do everything we're interested in, and much less to discover ALL OF THE THINGS you could be interested in. So, to me it just made sense to stop thinking too much about it and welcome it as a part of my life experience. When I relaxed about it, I found that many of my interests dissipated and only those that resonated on a deeper level stayed with me.

when new interests arise(note-taking is a good example for me) I allow them in, knowing that at the very least I will have learned something new about it and how it relates to me, regardless of their longevity as an interest of mine.

Thanks for the advices @User @User and @User . These points were things that I've probably thought about at some point and made sense logically but couldn't make peace with. I guess I'll have to learn how to do that.

I've made a lot of poor life decisions in my young adulthood that conditioned myself to seek for instant gratification and that didn't help coping with the struggle with no apparent/visible personal growth 😅

I was dealing with it pretty well so far this year but looking at all the new notes I've created in Dendron that had little to no content in it made me think again this morning.

Welcome to the club!!! Hindsight is 20/20. All we can do with the past is learn and grow from it. 🙏🏼

I would suggest not creating a new note until you feel the previous one is contributing something to your experience. Quality first, and then as you get used to that I’m sure the volume will rise naturally.

With dendron it’s easy to create lots of notes because it’s just so fun to use and play with all the bells and whistles. This happened to me. Then I realized I wasn’t writing, just playing. For someone like me who is starting from scratch, the tools aren’t nearly as useful as they are for someone who has many notes and an established pattern of writing, probably daily. I’m still working my way into that becoming a habit. Any way, just rambling now, but these types of conversations I imagine contribute not just to the community, but to the development of the tools we use more than you’d think.

Glad you put yourself out there @hikchoi

In addition to what @User said about having workable goals—I think of these goals almost as a way to "filter" my interests—you might reconsider what you're doing with each note? For instance, you might consider archiving any mostly empty ones into a "someday" vault? I have a lot of notes with links to websites or books that I'd like to read, if that interest becomes more truly "useful." It's sort of a "someday / maybe" list, like GTD recommends, as well as a way for me to document what I've been interested in, in case I'd like to pick those interests up again later. It's not as satisfying as having infinite time & resources, of course, but it does at least let me feel like whatever inertia / progress I've made on learning a new topic won't just disappear.

| I think of these goals almost as a way to "filter" my interests—you might reconsider what you're doing with each note? 💯 👍

Glad I sparked a bit of discussion 😄

I think for what I've been doing pre-dendron, a

someday

vault will end up becoming a write-only vault and not much use. I'd rather have a session to go through my notes periodically and do some leaf pruning.

We need more 👍 on the github issue for the frontmatter query feature hehe