Yeah but mainly how I can interact with it with the hotkey

does Dendron have support for adding plugins/scripts for added functionality?

Someone can suggest a nice Theme I could use for dendron? Not happy with how mine represents checkboxes:

I like to think of dendron as a extending the plain markdown itself, so you can extend it with anything you want, even obsidian if you’d like for example. But more likely you’d extend with other VSCode extensions I think, or you can use handlebars.js as well and inject javascript. Just my .02

hey @kevins8 what are you using for slide deck type presentations in markdown?

what are thoughts on empty parent notes? where the only purpose they serve is removing the "+" icon and providing a table of contents of sorts. is it an antipattern / dendron code smell?

I do that a lot personally.

I'll often add those notes—and also include a sentence or two that is a sort of "explain like I'm seven years old" rationale for that hierarchy. I've found that what is so painfully obvious to me that it goes without saying in May can make no sense whatsoever in September. 😅

Yeah, I’ve been doing it a lot as well, but at the same time I want the structure and naming to imply the meaning of the parent if that makes sense, instead of a written description. Then it’s also more refactorable. It probably depends on the hierarchy where I’d decide to do it or not. But I did notice that having them made refactoring more difficult as the note could be “overwritten” and would need to delete it first.

Anyone here though of composing notes over API like from other vaults

Or ones that are published / publically hosted

Or would it make most sense to do a local sync of that repo

Like let’s say I wanted to note embed a note from dendron s wiki

Maybe this exists lol

this is what we currently do with the dendron dev docs and the dendron wiki. one of the use cases for multi-vault is to be able to compose different vaults together like npm packages.

Hey guys! Has anyone heard of it http://www.morphic.live/ No information when it comes out?

Anyone got good books on technical writing / documentation? Specifically developer docs. Trying to get better at it for an upcoming project 🙂

Not books, but I found reading through https://diataxis.fr/ while working on internal docs, and taking the free course here https://developers.google.com/tech-writing helpful

thanks cameron, looks like these will help a ton.

I need some help, because i don't know how to interact with the api of vscode basically i want to pipe the content of my current document in vscode to echo, is someone so nice help? (I'm on Mac OS, bash shell)

Could you say more about what you're trying to do? as far as I know,

echo

doesn't take input from stdin, so I don't know if piping to it would actually do what you want. Are you just trying to output the contents of a file you're looking at in VSCode to a terrminal?

> Are you just trying to output the contents of a file you're looking at in VSCode to a terrminal? Exactly that. Mac scripting supports Javascript for automation, JXA but I've zero experience with Java 🙁

Is there a reason you can't just

cat <file>

? I think I still don't what you're trying to do here or why

In my case I want to get the content of a unsaved file which I wanna process further. Otherwise it would be easy to read from the file path, yeah

ah, I see

you can use the [TextEditor](https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#TextEditor) object to get contents of the current note. use the following to get the active text editor

ts
vscode.window.activeTextEditor

One more option : if you’re not developing a plugin and just testing one offs, you could copy your current document to your clipboard, then output the result to the shell with pbpaste (a Mac builtin) https://ss64.com/osx/pbpaste.html

I think I'm prepared to move to Dendron once a couple issues get resolved. If anyone is willing to review my desired state (i.e. how I expect to set Dendron up) and give me feedback, I'd really appreciate it - assuming the feedback is constructive: https://github.com/jeep/DendronTesting/blob/main/Dendron/notes/desired-state.md