I'm thinking about prefixing ALL my Dendron filenames with dates first, then topic. (I already use this for all non-markdown files such as PDF's, CSV's, etc.) Example: - 2022.04.18_topicA.md - 2022.04.18_topicA.research.md - Etc. Thoughts on adopting this approach in Dendron?

That looks good to me. I'd personally also put a dot between the day and the topic, but it's personal preference. You might want to tag these notes to make them easier to find later, because without the topic being the top of the hierarchy things like the tree view and lookup are a little less useful.

Right on. Any concerns with portability (escaping all the '.''s when using regex, etc.)?

You could probably regex with

[0-9.]+_topicA

to select anything with this topic. It's a bit harder than just typing

topicA.*

, but it should work.

When you say "tag these notes" do you mean a header

#### Tags

followed by

tagX, tagY, tagZ

or a

-tags:

parameter in the frontmatter?

Either one, whichever you prefer. I usually put the

#tagX

,

#tagY

etc. at the end of the note because I usually add the tags after writing the note, so I'm already at the end of the note.

Nice. Thanks for the insights 🙂

Hi there 👋 I'm looking for recommendations on improving my workflow together with Dendron, is it ok to do so here?

Yeah, sure 🙂 -- Although you may have seen that there's also a workflow-specific channel (#749641193322971238 )

Oh right, I'll ask my questions there then, thanks

meeting notes ❤️ love ittt

was inspired from feedback from you and a bunch of other folks 🙂

@User re: physical zettelkasten: i was actually super tempted to experiment/model Scott Scheper's Antinet zettelkasten in Dendron since it seems like analog zettelkastens rely on hierarchy to "cement" the position of notes. but Dendron also has hierarchy refactor which changes the game

Interesting, I currently have an antinet but thought of using dendron as a way to archive my notes. How much do you think the refactor element changes things?

not 100% sure--haven't used Dendron enough, lol. but i think it could "soften" the hierarchy a lot faster than if you relied on contextually congruent linking. so you lose the local "permanence" of numeric-alpha addressing, for a gain in global flexibility. suddenly the "trunks" can become "branches" and vice versa

Hello! TLDR: A non-dev writer guy here needs help with setting up PKM site. I love writing notes & I need help in managing them. Can I easily use Dendron to publish a digital garden/2nd brain/pkm site? Over the years of playing with blogging sites and journaling on pc, I ultimately grew fond of what is now called personal knowledge management. And I've tried finding a suitable tool. I come from the world of plethora of Word files, Dropbox, Dynalist outliner, Evernote, Notion, Roam & lately Obsidian while on my pursuit of finding an open source neat minimal yet functional tool for having/publishing a neat pkm site or digital brain with bidirectional linking, tags, graph & publishing capability etc. I tried finding such a tool and could only tinker with a static site generator I found on github. I haven't been able to use Jekyll and see if I can use that for my need. I was searching & just stumbled upon on Dendron in the Ycombinator news section in a comment by some legend and I'm wondering why is it standing quietly on one side of the internet. It feels like a long lost friend I hope I met years ago. Being the noob I am, I initially looked for a "download" page on Dendron website. As I scrolled down I realized it's a VScode plugin that I need to install. Now keep in mind that I haven't done anything on VScode ever until yesterday when I had to install it to edit a .toml file of a static site generator I am using to publish a test vault. So you can imagine how scary my experience might been when I installed the plugin & tried the tutorial section of Dendron. slowly cries inside I am hopeful because I think I can still use Obsidian to comfortably edit .md files in my vault like I used to do while trying to figure out the publishing part. Can someone guide me in the right direction?

hell non-dev writer guy!

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using dendron has introduced one hiccup into my life 😅 as someone who loves asciidoc, my brain now gets a bit confused when I go back to it, i might just switch to gfm overall. (by the power of pandoc).

(and no, i don't want to run everything through pandoc after using asciidoc for my normal stuffs). I personally just find asciidoc more intuitive and useful for things like the ttrpg game I'm trying to eventually finish making.

i considered using asciidoc as the main markup for dendron when first starting because its more powerful and consistent than markdown. but then realized that 98% of folks were using markdown and that wasn't going to change and ended up going with gfm with extras 😅

glad to know there's at least one other person out there who likes asciidoc more 😁

most of the circles i run heavy with are big org-mode fans tbh.

so i'm used to being the odd duck out there too, mostly because I have all sortsa problems getting emacs to run portably on windows, and vscode just smeggin works. (and it just smeggin works on linux too).

I should really get back into AsciiDoc. And yeah VS Code works so well on Windows. I was able to do a Pull Request on Github right from VS meowing Code!

I used to be one of those Org-mode fans, but nowadays I just use VS Code so no Elisp so no Org-mode there. I do kinda like their syntax though, clean and simpler to type. /italics/ and bold and all that.

yeah, when i was 20 years younger, working with things like vim and emacs and getting it juuuuuussssssttttt right felt rewarding, now it feels like i'm slamming my genitals in a door 😅

granted, i don't make shit easier on myself by requiring that my tools reside on portable USB sticks... but that's a me problem.

I'm probably 20 years younger than you and I already have less patience with stuff I have to almost build from the ground up. I mean I know a second brain thing takes time to build up, but I'd rather be working on that rather than that and the tools needed to build that. I did get pretty good with Org-mode though.

exactly