This is great, just read through both. I didn’t know about the preview option from vscode. A few things I did differently that may not be essential to a quickstart but could be useful for others 1. I’m using yarn instead of npm so I adapted all the commands slightly 2. I saved the cli commands to my package json so I just run “yarn run dev” or “yarn run build” 3. I avoid checking in the built files by having Netlify or Vercel do the build step (since I’m not hosting my notes with gh pages).

thanks for the feedback. i'll add a

yarn section

and also the

package.json

scripts. as for not checking in the build files, i was debating that. we actually have a github actions tutorial (https://dendron.so/notes/877f4347-f013-43ba-aec4-87412b2e1bec.html) but I found that it was hard for first timers to follow. I might add it as a third step in the tutorial (eg. now that you've published by pushing, we're going to show you how to do it without checking in the built file)

I was trying to figure out if we could completely generalise the workflow so you just have to put your CNAME (if you have one) into a secret and turn on GH Pages. I think it would be nice to provide an action that handles setting the right node version, installing the CLI, running it and pushing the result

that should be doable. it would have to check the repo and potentially edit ‘dendron.yml’ to set the correct ‘assetsPrefix’ depending on how the user configured their repo

This makes sense to me. 🙂

@User heads up that using the title for links is now supported 🙂 https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/448

Awesome! Excited for this

Looks like you found something to directly optimize, or memoize, in the startup path between 0.25 and 0.26. Opening my primary archive in ~5 seconds, rather than 2+ minutes, was very welcome.

@User daily journal notes should have their titles fixed now in the latest release

also, i think you mentioned a while back about moving notes between vaults. dendron now has a command for that 🙂

Awesome great stuff. I'll try it first thing tomorrow morning

@User finally a survey not lying about being short! 😄

I used i successfully this morning but now received an error. I'll DM you the logs

New note ref is gorgeous! It works with hour format (hh:mm)! Thank you!

I tried to rename a note today which caused an error: "TypeError: Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined\\n\\tat p.refreshNotesV2". @User I DMed you the logs

I find I'm tripping over the tree view format a little. 1. What I mostly want to do is expand / collapse a node. But where that node doesn't have a corresponding note, it creates a new note if I click anywhere except on the expand / collapse icon. Since it's an unusual case that I want to create a note higher up in the hierarchy, I'd prefer that only happen if I click on the +. 2. I'd rather turn off the + symbols completely (via a config setting) because they throw off the appearance of the hierarchy making it less obvious what's nested below what:

There is just one note in that example: sample.note.hierarchy but it's not clear at a glance (to me) that 'hierarchy' is below either 'sample' or 'note'.

I also regularly create notes this way by accident and would rather remove the

+

symbol in the the configuration, if that were possible.

Regardless of the option to disable the plus symbol outright, moving things around a bit would likely reduce the frequency of accidental incorrect clicks.

I got here through a blog post on personal knowledge bases

@User new release of dendron has some updates with the preview. let me know if your are still seeing preview issues after updating to 0.29

@User new release includes fixes to both the

move note

command and the

site preview

command. let me know if these fix the issues you brought up

Well, with the 0.29 release, site preview finally works for me on Windows, (Yeah). Only problem so far is with a SVG image, works in Enhanced Markdown Preview, yields a broken link icon, (plus the alternative text) in Chrome, and just the alternative text in Firefox

Here is the HTML as served:

html
Syntax | Markdown Guide</strong></h1>
<p> <img src="assets%5Cimages%5Cmarkdown-mark.svg" alt="SVG image" title="Large 'M' followed by downpointing arrow"></p>

Looking around at the served HTML, I see that none of the Dendron svg imagery is visible either.

FYI I don't think this is related to the Preview issue I was seeing but I did receive the following error when starting up 0.29 the first time:

{
  "ctx": "h:run",
  "err": {
    "status": "unknown",
    "msg": "",
    "payload": "{\"msg\":\"Unexpected token \\\"\",\"stack\":\"SyntaxError: Unexpected token \\\"\\n\\tat B (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:357:25016)\\n\\tat G (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:357:25383)\\n\\tat /home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:357:25898\\n\\tat Q (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:357:26060)\\n\\tat Object.parse (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:357:26485)\\n\\tat Object.t.readJSONWithComments (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:78:10104)\\n\\tat async Function.upgradeOrCreate (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:129:11450)\\n\\tat async Function.update (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:129:10394)\\n\\tat async h.execute (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:661:53429)\\n\\tat async h.run (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:9:102919)\\n\\tat async /home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:9:78209\\n\\tat async /home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:286:92406\\n\\tat async k (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:286:91757)\\n\\tat async S (/home/archfae/.vscode-oss/extensions/dendron.dendron-0.29.0/dist/extension.js:286:95956)\"}"
  }
}

Seems like it only occurred during the initial startup since the upgrade though; subsequent startups don't show that error.

baby steps. glad to hear the preview is working. when you say dendron svg imagery is not visible, do you have a screenshot that you can share as well as the html?

this means that we had trouble reading

dendron.code-workpsace

file. if it shows up again, you can run

Diagnostics Report

command and DM me the output

how is the preview? are you still seeing the loading issue?

Here is the served page:

Here's the Enhanced Markdown Preview: