I also new and I did a bit experimenting: Files are in markdown with what I believe a yaml header, enclosed in a couple of ---. They will be locked in a dendron workspace, which is a folder with a .vscode folder, and some tank and Jason files for configuration

The only this that doesn't sit well with me is that you cannot use subfolders

And I mainly organize my notes in subfolders

Ironic since subfolders are my most used form of hierarchy :).

It's not that you cannot, is that if you want to use then you need to register then as vaults in your workspace

Otherwise the graph thing will break a bit

Another thing: the file name will respect your hierarchy

Is it seamless if you register them? Could I for instance have users keep their contributions in separate vaults as a way to track contribution?

Can you distribute the vaults over a WAN?

And the file name can obscure the directory structure?

XXX "I created Dendron because I have over twenty thousand notes..." Kevins8 Para with Dendron That is hugely encouraging !!! Thank you so much Kevin!

I need to experiment with that actually, but I'd like to know also these things. Since I'd like to keep my workspace as a normal folder and have the magic only within vscode, so that I can open my notes seamless also on mobile

'Para with Dendron' - what is 'PARA' ?

This is so obviously the right tool for Kevin. Its a seductive and very honest case for project management and single line entries. How does it function for longer text in a more artistic setting. Can you write a book in it? Has anyone done so? I'd really like to become fabulously proficient with this and find a high powered job where I could hire the rest of their services... 🙂

A lot of questions here, @User @User haha so here we go: - Without VSCode being used to look at the files, a vault just is a single directory with all the note files (if there are images, too, those get stored in a subdir). A workspace involves some more files. These files can be opened in any text editor, too, but the VSCode extension helps with all the magic - All Dendron markdown notes have custom YAML headers that include things like

title

,

desc

, etc. and created/updated timestamps that are automatically managed by the Dendron extension in VSCode - If you never want to publish your notes, Dendron works great! It's a local-first approach, and the notes never have to be published (or even stored on) the internet if you don't want to - I use a multi-vault workspace, myself, that pulls in my vault that I publish to my website, also vault(s) that are private repos on GitHub, and I bring in vaults that are public GitHub repos. There are many paths here 🙂 - How well does it handle corruption: If using git to track your vault contents, this means all your notes are versioned over time. One benefit is that, if anything wonky may happen to a file, that you can retrieve an earlier version of the file if needed. Data/file corruption of plain text files rarely happens, but having versioned files is super helpful in the rare instance of it occurring - I've been playing around with potential ways to do Zettelkasten with Dendron, like how fleeting notes can be done with scratch notes, and how using Dendron tags can help further organize notes outside of hierarchy. Dendron has built-in support for backlinks by default, so you can see how others reference them, and also can visualize with the note graph Some resources that may be helpful: - Zettelkasten article: https://medium.com/@rebeccawilliams9941/the-zettelkasten-method-examples-to-help-you-get-started-8f8a44fa9ae6 - Another Zettelkasten article: https://zenkit.com/en/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-the-zettelkasten-method/ - Dendron tags: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/8bc9b3f1-8508-4d3a-a2de-be9f12ef1821/ - I use Obsidian (with mgit for git management, on Android) for accessing Dendron notes on my phone. Can see the blog post about mobile use, where I mention Obsidian with mgit: https://blog.dendron.so/notes/fDCVPEo3guCFWPdxokXHU/ - If looking for more iOS friendly tooling, there is a good catalog here: https://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/ - What is PARA: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/664c7980-f605-43ad-a931-c139740777c8/ and https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/ - For bigger projects: I myself am writing short stories, using Dendron, and also migrating my novels into Dendron. There is a word count extension that Microsoft makes, that throws a wordcount at the bottom status bar 🙂 I'm planning to use Dendron as the central source-of-truth, and use tools like

pandoc

and others when it comes to exporting out. I'm still getting the hang of things, but I'm interested in getting

pre-commit

,

vale

, and other helpful tools (maybe

codespell

?) working with my notes

@User I currently have my website setup when it comes to publishing a subset of my notes publicly: https://icanteven.io/ - it's a work-in-progress, but I think second brains will work that way haha always as a work-in-progress

Thank you so much for the thoughtful answers. I have this feeling that inertia will keep me using whatever system I choose now so I'm already worried about my one-thousandth note! 🙂

I'll say I've been very happy with Dendron's import/export capabilities and with being able to use a Dendron second-brain with non-Dendron-native tooling

One of the things I really like about Dendron is the focus on interoperability that will grow more and more in the future, when it comes to things like pods, where Dendron can become the layer that exports/imports knowledge, notes, blog posts, and docs to and from all over

yeah ^^

I really like this ZK youtube.

haha same!

(that's a high five)

Not a 'Stop ! You are evil I must vanquish you from the earth with fire! 🙂 🙂

Can't leave you hangin!

I'm currently working on using Dendron with a terminal + vim based interface

I'm cobbling together vim functions and shellscripts

I miss Vim.

Can you explain this a bit? This is exactly what I want to do

so you can interact with the Dendron engine through a CLI