According to their docs, it should be compatible with VSCode extensions, but you have to get them from a non-proprietary extension repository, i.e., not the VSCode marketplace: . Also, since Dendron has a CLI, if you can run shell commands from an editor, you can get it to work with Dendron to at least some degree

To me, the core ideas of vim are highly linked with the core ideas of the unix computing philosophy. I've found that the more I grokked the unix philosophy, the more I grokked vim, which is to say- it makes sense to me that vim would be counter-intuitive from a Windows-computing perspective. The koan in this collection ["Master Wq and the Windows developer"]() illustrates this with a humorous story

(unrelated) I remember I had just read "Stranger in A Strange Land" by Heinlein like 10 years ago or so, and then at the companies I joined after college I was hearing people using the word "grok" and I was like, "Whoa! Fans of the book?" but it was more like a word that had been adopted by a lot of people in tech. Is this a common thing for people in academia to use? Grok? I've heard people in tech use it, at meetups and at work, but I haven't heard it used much outside that context, though that may be more a reflection of my social circles

I haven't read Heinlein's stuff - I think the book I got it from was Ron Hale-Evans' Mind Performance Hacks, but I've seen it used in multiple sources. As far as I know, it's a term more commonly found in tech culture, but especially oldish tech culture. It's in the jargon file, for example: I think it may be trending out

Definitely one of my favorite words, and I try to use it and promote its use 😊

I love it too and should use it more myself haha

Just gave this a try btw, they don't seem to support enough of the VSCode API to actually run Dendron. No Dendron command seems to work unfortunately

Yay. Thanks for tapping in and test the water 👍

(Not sure if right channel) - Google docs is getting in on the markdown game http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/03/compose-with-markdown-in-google-docs-on.html

Thanks for sharing about Andy Matuschak! I quickly got lost in his website! 😂 Tons of gold found in there! Thanks @User

idk why i'm so hesitant to start copying my notes into dendron format....

i know it lets me refactor and re-organize easily 😅

Do you think you'd be more comfortable if you had a set of maybe 10 pre-made notes to use while you're trying to "kick the tires" ? I've tried doing that for other platforms. For me at least, it seems like separating form and content (a little like css and html) can help me figure out new tools better.

part of my brain is also mad at me for being a devout asciidoc supporter, but commonmark doesn't seem all terribly different, at least for basic note-taking.

hmmmm, having an "interactive getting started" tutorial definitely is something up my alley, especially if it was easy to reset the project to the start/default.

Yeah. I recently made something very vaguely similar for people learning Pressbooks (a WordPress fork) at my college. I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but I could try to maybe come up with that kind of tutorial with a dozen or so files, tags, a schema or two, etc. Going through the motions is often how I personally learn best.

i like to read something, then work with something "malleable but reset-able"

big win today. moving from confluence to markdown repo for all our technical documentation.

next win: convince everyone to use dendron xD

seems the next one is much harder

nice! how are y'all structuring the markdown repo?

how do you handle the tables in confluence.. AFAIK confluence cannot export to markdown directly?

great question. @User .. so right now it is in folders... which is a bit of an issue. basically in the beginning we are taking advantage of the fact that we can use the built in web IDE in gitlab to edit things. i could easily move this to hierarchies, and i think i will do that. my concern with using hierarchies is that it might be more difficult for people visually inspecting the repo to look at where to find documentation, but i believe they can just use the search feature and that would work fine. i'm also going to turn this repo into a dendron published site, so that will definitely help with organization. @User we are actually a very small team, so there is not a lot that we need to export. if we do need to export things we will probably do so manually, but it's really not a big deal for us right now. to support tables and graphs i am going to try to lead by example by using text tables / mermaid syntax.

Good to hear that. One thing I value dendron over confluence is the possibility to export.

oh yeah definitely. once you get into the markdown ecosystem ur just instantly super portable wherever you go which i love.

actually not that much. the

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link is not so easy to work with when refactoring. But generally markdown is the most popular one to me (not counting HTML)

but its much much better than confluence anyway

Let's continue here @User https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/735365126227493004/960736211394256917 What exactly is "program with graph"? google can't answer me

it's just a way more visual approach to looking at your code

example?