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  • k
    @User getting started can definitely take a little getting used to. this is why I offer a 30min onboarding for new users 😅 feel free to book one if you want to dive into this in more detail: https://calendly.com/thence/dendron
  • g
    Thank you @User the pictures are showing now. Yes, I was trying to get things working by myself but I think I'm gonna do a walkthrough with you. Thanks for the suggestion!
  • k
    @User 1. for terms that I want to backlink, what I use is two level hiearchies. so [[people.freud]] and [[terms.unconcious]]. I will create vscode snippets for anything longer than two levels that I use on a regular basis. the nice thing about this approach is that you can use wiki-link autocomplete to see entries you already have in any given hierarchy (and refactor them later if need be) 2. there is the markdown web-clipper but this is probably overkill for what you're looking for since it clips the whole article: https://dendron.so/notes/301e4129-6933-4be7-a4bd-8125171360d8.html#web-clipper we currently don't do any magic to create pretty urls but that would be a great addition. 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=
  • t
    1. Alright, that does make sense, I haven't really considered how autocomplete might help. Will check out VSCode snippets too. 2. Right - or maybe it's not overkill, I might as well have a copy locally if I'm linking to it already :) But I'm going to create the feature request anyway. Thank you!
  • g
    @User Not sure if you know but as kevin mentioned "markdown web-clipper", there is a highlighter for Chrome that you select a phrase/a block of text and it exports to Markdown with the link Here is the link for ithttps://bit.ly/3ew18Y7
  • t
    Cool, good to know too! Unfortunately I'm using Firefox and this extension seems to be Chrome-only :/
  • b
    I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/markdownload/ for Firefox. It lets you also copy a selection. It works well for me
  • i
    Hey @User did you manage do sort out the autocomplete? I'm having the same issue. autocomplete in wiki-links stopped working altogether. All of a sudden. I uninstalled everything, VSCodium, extensions, restarted the computer, but no luck. Even create a new workspace from scratch, but nothing.
  • i
    So it's something to do with VSCode's Intellisense, I'm messing with it to see why the settings are different and which settings are different.
  • u
    Hi. Is there a way of sorting by modified date the results of Dendron's lookup?
  • u
    > Hey @User did you manage do sort out the autocomplete? I'm having the same issue. autocomplete in wiki-links stopped working altogether. All of a sudden. I uninstalled everything, VSCodium, extensions, restarted the computer, but no luck. Even create a new workspace from scratch, but nothing. @User I did not. If you're able to find a solution let me know. I was on a work computer which is Windows. I did not try my Linux box. What are you using?
  • k
    @User not right now. since its been brought up a few times now, 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=
  • i
    @User hey, I'm on Windows 10. I think I'm not understanding how IntelliSense of VSCode works. I think it learns the files you have in your workspace and when you have a lot of files the dropdown autocomplete will show up. Right now, if I write half a word in [[poe]] and hit tab it completes to [[poems]] and if I keep hitting tab it gives me other results from the files I have. I'm rebuilding the Dendron workspace (It wasn't thaaat big) and I'll try to see if that works again.
  • k
    @User @User autocomplete is handled by the dendron-markdown-notes extension. it's based on files in your workspace. it can be slow to load (currently) if you have over 100K+ files in your workspace. one thing I would check is if you haven't accidentally included an extra directory in dendron. you can see what files are in your workspace using 
    > Open Workspace Settings (JSON)
  • i
    Copy code
    {
  "folders": [
    {
      "path": "vault"
    }
  ],
  "settings": {
    "dendron.rootDir": ".",
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "files.autoSave": "onFocusChange",
    "workbench.colorTheme": "GitHub Light",
    "pasteImage.path": "${currentFileDir}/assets/images",
    "pasteImage.prefix": "/",
    "markdown-preview-enhanced.enableWikiLinkSyntax": true,
    "markdown-preview-enhanced.wikiLinkFileExtension": ".md",
    "vscodeMarkdownNotes.noteCompletionConvention": "noExtension",
    "vscodeMarkdownNotes.slugifyCharacter": "NONE",
    "editor.snippetSuggestions": "inline",
    "editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions": false,
    "editor.suggest.showSnippets": true,
    "editor.tabCompletion": "on"
  },
  "extensions": {
    "recommendations": [
      "dendron.dendron-paste-image",
      "equinusocio.vsc-material-theme",
      "dendron.dendron-markdown-shortcuts",
      "dendron.dendron-markdown-preview-enhanced",
      "dendron.dendron-markdown-links",
      "dendron.dendron-markdown-notes",
      "github.github-vscode-theme"
    ],
    "unwantedRecommendations": [
      "shd101wyy.markdown-preview-enhanced",
      "kortina.vscode-markdown-notes",
      "mushan.vscode-paste-image"
    ]
  }
}
  • i
    I can't tell how these settings should be by default.
  • i
    Should there be a JSON object with all the files?
  • k
    just the top level folder. your settings are fine
  • b
    I'm on win10 as well and autocomplete only works by Ctrl+Space for me but that works reliably. I'm at ~150 files now and it's almost instantaneous
  • t
    Hm, is there a way to publish my vault without converting all the filenames to their permanent IDs? I know it has its benefits, but I don't think I'll be moving around the notes too often, so I'd prefer to have readable URLs
  • i
    @User thanks! I had CTRL+SPACE set globally to a launcher on my computer so even if I wanted to use for autocomplete it would never work, as it would bring up a "launcher". that solves it for me!
  • k
    @User not at the present. if you submit a feature request, I can add it to our roadmap https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title= in the future, we will implement SEO friendly version of the unique identifier using the same trick that stack overflow does (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/820493/can-an-seo-friendly-url-contain-a-unique-id) this preserves seo friendliness as well as making sure the links don't break
  • u
    > @User not right now. since its been brought up a few times now, can you submit a feature request so we can track it in our roadmap? @User Will do that. Thanks anyway!
  • t
    Ah, I feel kind of bad for asking questions that are basically just feature requests ATM 😅 Right, "SEO friendly URLs" would also help, even though I'm not really doing this because of SEO, I just like human-readable URLs (and the dendron 
    flat.hierarchy.approach
    kind of lends itself to translation into URLs nicely). Anyway, thanks, and keep up the good work, I've already got a lot of use out of Dendron!
  • u
    > @User > > Will do that. Done!
  • k
    @User all good, if you look at our backlog of features, we have quite a lot of those. a big portion of each month is reserved to user feature requests and some of our core features (eg. scratch notes) came out of them 🙂
  • r
    How do tags work in dendron? I did this [[#covid|tag.covid]] and i want to be able to find all entries with this tag. How can I do thid?
  • t
    @User either open the tag.covid page and look under "backlinks", or just through vs code search I imagine
  • r
    tml: ahhhhh i see ok thanks
  • r
    hmmm were would "backlinks" be on the tag.covid page?
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