we are a community of people that care about note taking after all 🙂

TLDR: considering Dendron as an ideal tool for a workflow for penetration testing: enumeration and intel gathering (notes, screenshots); continued notes and artifact gathering throughout test; into a workflow for final report deliverable writeup. Combine that with some boilerplate statements of work templates and paperwork for pre-engagement communications and formalities...

Similarly for CTF and war games style write ups

the way its split - #749641193322971238 is to discuss or share workflows that you have or are thinking of

Yep I see what you mean

i used to do aws consulting not too long ago and used dendron for a bunch of client paperwork. will probably write about that soonish as well

okay, bedtime now. any more posts from me after this point will be from the bot 🙂

I do not blog currently but I write a lot privately. One of my current old year resolutions (years running out, what changes do I want to implement before The new year) is to get back to blogging... so maybe I can write up some of the ideas I have and then just submit the link for anyone who is interested to have a look

Goodnight and me too (sleep taking in my case)

FYI in case it helps anyone ... I was able to drag my Obsidian markdown files into the vs code file explorer while Dendron was active, then execute the "Reload Window" command. This imported most things fairly well. Some small things are off -- for example note links with spaces are broken because Dendron would've replaced spaces with _, but Obsidian didn't. All in all though, I've got my notes imported and am ready to rock and roll.

I'm pretty excited about trying Dendron, but I immediately have tons of questions: * How do I prevent newly opened files from replacing the preview pane (i.e. opening in the same tab group as the preview pane)? This even happens when using Dendron's own Lookup feature. I have to pay a lot of attention to which pane is focused when opening a file. * How do I go back after clicking on a link? I guess Command-W to close the file. VS Code's own "Back" (Control-Hyphen) doesn't work reliably * If I want to write a series of sections that are like "chapters" of a larger work, do I put them in one file, or multiple notes, and if I put them in multiple, how do I see a listing of them in order? I could make a note that's a table of contents with links, but links are very clunky. I could put numbers in the file names, but then it's hard to re-order them. Probably the less I need sections of a larger work I'm creating to exist in some kind of order, the better for this tool. I could possibly use "refs" to combine sections into a larger document, though I'm not sure if that's advisable. * It seems like there's no full-text search except for VS Code's exact string or regex search

Also wondering: * Is there a way to make journal pages automatically having a heading at the top with the date (which I was expecting) * Is there a way in this flavor of markdown to apply text colors, so I can e.g. make some todos red like I was doing in Notion

@User using a technique suggested by @kevins8 for date in template: place the keyword for a snippet and when you open the note you can tab complete it from the snippet

To my knowledge not directly in the markdown however you can define your own style sheets which should allow you to set that up

Have not run into documentation on or messed with style sheets yet but heard some mention of it

Ahh here it is

Hope that helps @User

@User Thanks for answering a couple of my questions. The CSS stuff looks interesting, though it is not per workspace, it would be machine-wide and not checked into the workspace's version control, which is unfortunate

my biggest gripe so far is definitely that if I end up focusing the preview pane somehow (like clicking on a checkbox) then I am likely to end up accidentally opening something on top of the preview pane or closing it

Don’t have the time to delve into it more at the moment but suffice it to say that from my reading you CAN override the style sheets for the preview specific to a given note or schema of notes (using templates)

Maybe someone who has used the feature can weigh in

Otherwise I’ll try to work up a quick example tomorrow

Are you on windows Mac Linux?

Mac

> @User yep, that’s the plan. probably will land sometime next week @User is it still on the roadmap? ;D

@User > * How do I prevent newly opened files from replacing the preview pane (i.e. opening in the same tab group as the preview pane)? This even happens when using Dendron's own Lookup feature. I have to pay a lot of attention to which pane is focused when opening a file. Set the following option in your workspace settings

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

> * How do I go back after clicking on a link? I guess Command-W to close the file. VS Code's own "Back" (Control-Hyphen) doesn't work reliably https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56077745/how-can-i-go-back-to-previous-tab-opened-in-vscode > * If I want to write a series of sections that are like "chapters" of a larger work, do I put them in one file, or multiple notes, and if I put them in multiple, how do I see a listing of them in order? I could make a note that's a table of contents with links, but links are very clunky. I could put numbers in the file names, but then it's hard to re-order them. Probably the less I need sections of a larger work I'm creating to exist in some kind of order, the better for this tool. I could possibly use "refs" to combine sections into a larger document, though I'm not sure if that's advisable. https://dendron.so/notes/e780000d-c784-4945-8e42-35218a3ecf10.html you can use note refs to have them all aggregate at a top level note https://dendron.so/notes/f1af56bb-db27-47ae-8406-61a98de6c78c.html

> * It seems like there's no full-text search except for VS Code's exact string or regex search this is true. for the brave of heart, we have a recipe for indexing your notes using elasticsearch: https://dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def4b4865.html#analyze-notes-using-elasticsearch > * Is there a way to make journal pages automatically having a heading at the top with the date (which I was expecting) can't currently insert the date except via vscode snippets (https://dendron.so/notes/9eca1992-7540-4d9d-97fb-328b27748b2c.html) would recommend using a schema template to set a snippet to set the date: https://dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75cbb1052.html#schema-templates we're planning on releasing snippet based templates soon to cut out the middle man 😅 > * Is there a way in this flavor of markdown to apply text colors, so I can e.g. make some todos red like I was doing in Notion you can apply custom css rules. see [this](https://dendron.so/notes/692fa114-f798-467f-a0b9-3cccc327aa6f.html#stylized-tags-using-custom-css) as an inspiration

@User thanks for the reminder! yes it still is, it got time shifted due to the craziness of october. +1/2 weeks for this 😅