Newbie question: I'm new to dendron but it looks awesome. I'm a developer, so it seems right to use git. It seems like it would be right to initialize git in the root directory rather than the vault directory, right?

> It seems like it would be right to initialize git in the root directory rather than the vault directory, right? @User depends on what you want to achieve. I only have the vault under version control which contains the content.

@User @User we recommend just having the vault under version control (though now that I think about it, I don't think this is documented 😅 ) we are working on adding multi-vault support this month: https://dendron.so/notes/45cfb9f2-46cf-4f67-a41e-834818fbd06e.html having git initialized on a per-vault basis allows you to subscribe to published vaults in the future using git

@User refactor works based on regex patterns. see the following for additional notes https://dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def4b4865.html#regex

> on Win 10, just upgraded to 12.4 -- enhanced preview errors on video content, says: "Your browser does not recognize any of the formats available" regular preview displays the video however @User Still seeing this, would like to install a markdown to HTML converter, (or maybe gulp and a gulp converter), so I can generate an html page and debug it in chrome. Does anyone have some recommendation from their setup?

Not sure if this is what you want but Pandoc is my go-to tool for markdown conversion. There's also a vscode extension for it

> Not sure if this is what you want but Pandoc is my go-to tool for markdown conversion. There's also a vscode extension for it @User Hmm, that would let me generate a single html page from a markdown file? I give that a try. Thx

I did see some gulp stuff Kevins8 directory,maybe he'll coment

> we are working on adding multi-vault support this month: https://dendron.so/notes/45cfb9f2-46cf-4f67-a41e-834818fbd06e.html > @kevins8 I'm totally looking forward to that feature. Right now I have two windows open each pointing to a vault. Having everything in a single workspace would ease things a lot. Would this include the option to move files between vaults?

I am new to dendron and just getting started. Is there a setting somewhere (or another plugin) which will always open the note in preview first and then if I want can go for editing? Once the note is created, most of the time goes into reading it so it will be convenient to open preview first and then go to edit unless I am missing something

@User the preview works on an opened text editor so there isn't a way of doing that yet (besides publishing locally and looking at the html version) a 90% answer is to use the auto-preview option which will always keep the preview open https://dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def4b4865.html#prevent-newly-opened-files-from-replacing-the-preview-pane

> Not sure if this is what you want but Pandoc is my go-to tool for markdown conversion. There's also a vscode extension for it @User Installed the vscode pandoc extension, but was getting errors trying to getting it to convert dendron.install.md, (the file whose MPE view chokes on Ed's embedded YouTube video). Turns out I had to close out all the open vscode instances, plus Window Terminal powershell instances, then restart vscode an get it working. When I viewed the converted HTML in Chrome, the video worked. Given that VSCode is from MS, I wonder if it favors its browser in MPE, and that is the source of the problem

@User i followed your adivce. deep nesting can be quite a hassle.

Is it possible to flatten the journal hierarchies in dendron tree view? via schema maybe? It gets excessive quickly:

- journal
    - 2020
        - 01
            - 10
                - sprint
                - feature-x
            - 11
                - review
                - foo

Something like this would be useful

- journal
    - 2020.01
        - 10.sprint
        - 10.feature-x
        - 11.review
        - 11.foo

I could achieve this via manually naming my notes accordingly and using

-

instead of

.

as separator. But this feels and looks somewhat odd.

@User Am I right in assuming that arbitrary (non hierarchical) links are not yet rendered by Show Note Graph command?

Moving reporting on "Video Error in MPE" to dev

@User not currently possible though I agree with you that the multiple levels can be excessive. some thoughts - as you mentioned, one way of solving this is to use

-

instead of

.

in your journal date format setting - the better way to do this is to treat journal notes as a special case. we are already planning on doing this for auto-generated journal titles (eg. title should be full date instead of just last component) so it makes sense to do this for the tree view as well we might add this as an option in

dendron.yml

to start off with unless folks want to customize this per-schema.

yml
# control how levels are displayed in the tree view
pathDisplayMiddleware: 
    - id: mergeDates
      format: `{YYYY}.{MM}.{DD}`

in any case, can you submit a feature request so we can track it in our roadmap? https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=

@User done. https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/326

Hi - I'm new to Dendron, and I'm looking at the order of notes within the DENDRON (Workspace) in the hope of being able to set up the PARA system in projects/areas/research/archive order in the explorer. Looking at https://www.dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75cbb1052.html, you can see pro.md precedes pro.home-renovation.md. However, I created notes with the same titles, but I get the pro.home-renovation.md note preceding pro.md. Is there some way of ordering the notes? Is there a better way of achieving my goal?

@User when you say order, can you specify what part of the workspace are you referring to? the dendron tree view? the lookup results? the regular explorer results? depending on which one, i will have a different answer :) https://dendron.so/notes/f7ebd4aa-8ba7-4bc5-bd00-a1efc5315f07.html

Hi @User - I mean specifically the DENDRON (WORKSPACE) pane of the Explorer (View->Explorer), but the same would apply to the DENDRON TREE VIEW pane.

to sort the workspace, you can follow the instructions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51543871/sorting-files-in-vs-code-explorer

dendron tree view currently doesn't support sorting though its something we can add if folks want it. can you submit a feature request so we can track it in our roadmap? https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=

Hi - looking at the Explorer sort order options, I don't see any that get me pro.md pro.home-renovation.md How did you get it in the screenshot on dendron.topics.schemas I referred to earlier?

hmm, trying to re-create the files, I see the explorer is sorting it differently for me as well. by default, explorer is alphabetical, so

pro.m < pro.h

. i'm not actually sure how that was not the case in the gif I published 🤔

something i do for my projects is pre-pend it with a {date-month} pair. so

pro.2020-11.home-renovation

this helps with sort as well as organization

Hmm indeed! I wonder if there's an option to ignore the file extension somewhere... I will put an FR into the appropriate repo.

👍

I am trying to find a way to bulk rename notes for example place one sub hierarchy underneath another hierarchy. For example Research.Wales.* is moved to Animals.Mamals.Wales. ?

refactor hierarchy is what you want :) https://dendron.so/notes/eea2b078-1acc-4071-a14e-18299fc28f47.html#refactor-hierarchy