Is there a way to turn off publishing completely? Like, if I know for certain I never want to accidentally publish my notes, can I make it so I can't do that?

If you don't want to have a published site, your Dendron workspace shouldn't automatically publish (unless you have configured your repository to do so). If you mean you want to publish a subset of your notes, but by default not publish others, there are a few paths you can take: - Exclude a hierarchy of notes from publishing: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/WLDbhcr3EHlN3sSquMMLk/ - Exclude vaults from publishing entirely by marking them as `private`: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/6682fca0-65ed-402c-8634-94cd51463cc4/#visibility When you initialize a new workspace, and save to GitHub, it by default is not configured for publishing. If you have used one of our GitHub templates (

template.publish.*

) for pre-configured publishing, I can help guide for disabling depending on which template you used if you have.

It might help to explain what happened to brought me to this point. I hadn't converted a note to plain markdown in a while. I remembered that there was some command to do it, but it's not named what I expect. I remembered that the command was something to do with publishing. It's the command that puts plain markdown in your clipboard. I opened the command prompt found there was both "Publish [something that I forget]" and "Publish Pod [something that I forget]". The latter is the one I wanted, but I went with the former. It asked something about settings so I went with the default and it started building a next.js thing. I had to quit VSCode to get it to stop. The latter option asks what format you want to "publish" and if you select markdown, it'll put plain markdown in your clipboard. I don't want to ever accidentally let the actual publish command complete, but I still want to convert a note into plain markdown. Is there a different (safer) way to do what I want?

Ah, I can address these: - Having

Publish Pod

has historically been confusing for users, and good news on that front: we are changing the naming convention in the latest versions of Pods to only be

Export

. To use the latest Pods v2, for exporting Markdown to your clipboard, follow the quickstart here: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/j5wgTcRHQZomzSHsg41O8/ - When it comes to generating the Next JS static site, if that accidentally happens again in the future: publishing via CLI or VS Code command palette commands will only create a local copy of the site. This means that if it accidentally happens again, you are only generating the website locally rather than publishing to an external endpoint.

Oh cool! That guide looks great! I'll try that out later Today.

You can submit a feature request here if you'd like, and can detail having the publishing commands either include additional confirmation/prompts, or for a config value to disable the publishing command: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=