@User just was about to give the same feedback regarding the cmd + arrow left / right, especially in non-dendron windows it says "engine not initialized" and the keys can't be used properly

What do you think about adding something like this: https://markmap.js.org/repl As notes are hierachical one could create mindmaps out of the headlines along the hierachy 🙂

> @User just was about to give the same feedback regarding the cmd + arrow left / right, especially in non-dendron windows it says "engine not initialized" and the keys can't be used properly @ewaTch To get around this I disable most VS Code extensions globally (leaving my themes, EditorConfig and some Markdown stuff) globally and enable them only in specific workspaces. It’s a bit of a faff when setting up new projects, but I find it pays off in editing experience 🙂

@User markmap looks awesome! I think we could implement this as a webview and a command to toggle between views if you give us a feature request then i'll add it to the roadmap 🙂 https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=

Thanks @User. That sounds like a good idea. I will give that a try.

Great @User will create one soon 🙂

So, i have been trying out dendron for a week or so now. It is a pleasure to categorize and take notes, watching the web of notes slowly grow. There is a few things that is what i could call 'friction points' at this date. As a pretext, i have read the roadmap, and know that most of my thoughts are already planned/in development. Dendron-related - I can't wrap my head around using schemas and templates in its current state (I am thrilled over the planned improvements regarding this) - In it's current state, pasting images is a bit unintuitive. I like to take screensnippets from sources i find, and having a streamlined process of this would be nothing other than fantastic. - An option to lock what kind of content each window should have - I rarely want to have md-files where i have set Note links or previews to be. Assumed limitations of vscode - When opening vscode or reloading the window, the preview and note links are not opened. (i would assume this is default behaviour for vscode?) - When using vscode on multiple computers, disabled extensions (everything unrelated to dendron in my case) does not follow through. + This issue is discussing the culprit, so i assume it will be solved if/when dendron goes standalone - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/18386 I hope my (relatively short) experience with using dendron is of any value, and i'm genuinely stoked to see where this goes in the future. I really want to use this as a daily driver, but now i will experiment with it a bit. Thanks you so much for developing dendron!

@User thanks for the detailed feedback. some specific responses > I can't wrap my head around using schemas and templates in its current state (I am thrilled over the planned improvements regarding this) schemas and templates are definitely not easy to use. they are getting a re-write in october and should be much more intuitive afterwards > In it's current state, pasting images is a bit unintuitive. I like to take screensnippets from sources i find, and having a streamlined process of this would be nothing other than fantastic. you mean using

paste images

command to paste pictures? what would your ideal workflow be? > - An option to lock what kind of content each window should have hmm, so this would be having pre-defined layouts for your notes? > - When opening vscode or reloading the window, the preview and note links are not opened. (i would assume this is default behaviour for vscode?) you can have the preview always open by setting the following in your settings

"markdown-preview-enhanced.automaticallyShowPreviewOfMarkdownBeingEdited": true,

> - When using vscode on multiple computers, disabled extensions (everything unrelated to dendron in my case) does not follow through. yeah, this is a vscode issue. my workaround is to have a separate version of vscode for dendron (either insider edition or vscodium)

@User Wow, that was faster than i anticipated! Thank you for responding > schemas and templates are definitely not easy to use. they are getting a re-write in october and should be much more intuitive afterwards I'm exited for this! > you mean using

paste images

command to paste pictures? what would your ideal workflow be? That is correct. I may have been spoiled with just using

ctrl+v

whenever i have an image in the clipboard. > hmm, so this would be having pre-defined layouts for your notes? Sort of. My main thought is to prevent "contaminating" my preview and graph window, if that makes sense. Lets say i have clicked in the preview for a link or whatever, and i try to open a new note. Given that the preview window now is the active one, the new note will now be opened as a new tab over the preview. > you can have the preview always open by setting the following in your settings(...) Apparently i did not think of checking the settings of mk-preview. This one will be used, thanks! > yeah, this is a vscode issue. my workaround is to have a separate version of vscode for dendron (either insider edition or vscodium) I did not think of that, brilliant!

@User forgot to mention this but you can override all keybindings in vscode. the command to paste images is "paste images" so you can change the keybinding to it https://www.dendron.so/notes/c8e99b84-8a5a-42d3-838d-3d5cdebf32e5.html

Even better! Thanks a lot, Kevin 😁

I'm not sure if I should file an issue or just ask here first, but I have a file that I can't rename or refactor: - the file is called

weekly.journal.W39.md

- I tried to both refactor the hierarchy and rename the note through the

Dendron: XXX

commands - I get an error at the bottom of the screen:

"weekly.journal.W39 not found"

This happens with its sibling as well, but they both exist:

❯ ls -l weekly.journal.W*
-rw-r--r--  1 mtl  staff  615 Oct  3 20:25 weekly.journal.W39.md
-rw-r--r--  1 mtl  staff  428 Oct  3 20:25 weekly.journal.W40.md

Any thoughts? I did manually rename them and reloaded the index and everything seems fine again.

that's a bug with mixed case file names. we normalize everything to lowercase when refactoring. could you file a bug report?

(just repro'd)

will do, thanks 🙂

Is there some sort of caching involved as well? If I manually rename the note to

weekly.journal.w39.md

, close the tab and re-open it, when I try to refactor again, I still see

weekly.journal.W39

as the note name.

dendron doesn't cache (yet) between sessions so if you manually rename and do a

reload index/reload window

, it will read everything from the file system. i believe this is a vscode thing. i've noticed if i create

FOO.md

via the terminal, remove it, and then

touch foo.md

, vscode will show it as

FOO.md

I guess a non-case-related-change is enough to get VSCode to sort itself out then. Good to know.

Took some time but finally made my feature request. Do you miss anything ? https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/264

this is great. will add some comments soon. thanks for the request 🙂

sure you're welcome

Mindmap-style rendering would be a killer feature for me as well - One of my favourite aspects of The Brain (app) is being able to view notes and hierarchies of notes in siloed chunks like that (makes it easier to focus), as well as the fact that the text is arranged neatly in a legible way (as opposed to how a lot of graph visualisation libraries spread things out randomly which makes scanning the notes under a particular domain difficult). So, very much looking forward to something along those lines being implemented in Dendron.

To add to LLV: I also like The Brain's organized view. if you look at a network graph library like this one: https://js.cytoscape.org/#eles.neighborhood it has concepts to talk about what relationships you want to pull into view. 2 views I want are: 1) The view similar to the Brain (

focusedNode

shows immediate neighbors and children) 2) Kanban view `focusedNode`(board) shows children (lists) and then their grandchildren (tasks) not sure if that makes sense, but its kinda what I've been working on

@User since dendron just finished its server mode migration, it now opens up the door to built rich UI's like the mindmap-style renderings of the brain app. timeline wise, the next major project on our roadmap is enabling multivault (https://dendron.so/notes/45cfb9f2-46cf-4f67-a41e-834818fbd06e.html). after which, we'll invest in building out UI's like the schema builder and projects like mindmap visualizations. probably a november/december timeline. in the meantime, I've written the skeleton of a proposal for what the feature could look like: https://dendron.so/notes/533857a4-3dcb-478e-9877-5ab7f94ed6e6.html what would be helpful is if you could flesh out the details of what you want to see in this feature 🙂 you can use [this](https://dendron.so/notes/a4252774-0c08-4bca-a1b5-b6f369908aeb.html) as a reference

@kevins8 That’s brilliant. I will definitely put forward some ideas for this.

Just did my first refactor while using LSP. So fast!

Agreed. It is now super fast. I've also noticed a huge improvement with how fast the outline calculates on very long notes.

And last night when I was submitting my feature request, I noticed that I can right click on the markdown preview and I get like a million different ways to export my note. Is this a Dendron feature? Either way, works great!

@User the export comes with the markdown-preview-enhanced extension so can't take credit for that 🙂 https://github.com/shd101wyy/vscode-markdown-preview-enhanced

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