# chat
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Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:06 AMagreed. Tho I've never used "relation" heavily when I was in obsidian / github wiki. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:13 AMI never used anything besides Dendron in this space, I'm currently moving the contents of... Lots and lots of text files (and stuff from "the guide") into Dendron, and that's one of the things that really popped to me with the "front and center" presentation of children pages and backlinks, and how tags can be utilized as well. - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:16 AMI spent a few hours comparing for the best tool, the tops three for me are Dendron and nb(https://github.com/xwmx/nb) and foam(https://foambubble.github.io/foam/). Idk why Foam gets more stars and forks on GitHub than Dendron. It seems just less ideal for me.. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:38 AMFoam is better if you don't inherently think in hierarchies and the ability to refractor them. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:39 AMI also looker at zettler, but the hierarchies and refactoring of Dendron really are my jam and jelly - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:40 AMhierarchies and refractor are two of the three most important capabilities I'm looking for.😅 - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:40 AMnb looks nifity, very light and minimalist - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:40 AMand why you think Foam is better? - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:41 AMFoam is better for a certain brain style - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:41 AMNot mine - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:41 AMagreed.. but it's too nifty, I don't even use vim.. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:41 AMFoam is less concerned with structure and organization, and for something like notes and knowledge, that doesn't work for me. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:42 AMI use vscode 99% of the time. I'm stuck on windows so emacs and vim are a bit persnickitty - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:43 AMI do love that with Dendron I can just start taking notes and then refractor them out when I figure out where they fit. - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:44 AMYea. Although you can just rename a folder in obsidian 😂 - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:44 AMDoes that automatically update all links? - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:45 AMSure .. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:46 AMI only ask because I never really looked at obsidian - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:46 AMBut I don’t like it being not open source and lacking of some features - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:46 AMYeah, that's a big part of the reason I did not persue obsidian much in my searching - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:47 AMThe highest contender for me was org-roam*, but emacs on windows is painful for me 🤣 - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:49 AMLike it will can focus on the file you open, hard to run multiple instances,and I don’t want to feel like a dumb being charged $16 monthly to use the features that should be free. - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:50 AMYeah, I can relate to that sentiment - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:50 AMNether do I use emacs - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:52 AMI think Dendron is the best solution for me and I’ll try to PR the export thing tomorrow - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:53 AMGood luck! Maybe Dendron will be my motivation to get better at JS/TS - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:55 AMActually I change my plan. Tomorrow I’m going to import everything from obsidian to dendron and then PR another repo (paste rich text to markdown). The publishing can wait. - p
Pablo LION
04/05/2022, 4:56 AMNice to talk with you - s
Slaytanical(LamentConfiguration)
04/05/2022, 4:56 AMLikewise - k
kfischer_okarin
04/05/2022, 10:22 AMI'm quite fresh to Dendron (only few days now)... and it's crazy how much of a difference a few central quality of life features make for me: - Easy wiki style linking into not yet existing pages - Note extraction with leaveTrace - Backlinks - All available from the Command Palette make for my willingness to actually created interconnected notes and content maps