Dendron #questions

Francobar

11/26/2020, 11:16 PM

Or how to import several files?

kevins8

11/26/2020, 11:45 PM

@User backlinks are documented here: https://dendron.so/notes/3472226a-ff3c-432d-bf5d-10926f39f6c2.html for import, you can import markdown from your file system using the markdown pod: https://dendron.so/notes/13c4a608-0a32-4c62-9c7e-2b7f9f2d18bf.html#import

user

11/27/2020, 2:14 AM

Is it OK to put my PDFs into the ASSETS directory? Nothing has exploded "yet" but I figured I would ask.

user

11/27/2020, 2:15 AM

Done!

kevins8

11/27/2020, 2:23 AM

yep, that's what they are meant for. moving forward, we'll also have separate vaults specifically for assets. more announcements on that in a week or so 🙂

Francobar

11/27/2020, 2:38 AM

👍 Thanks!

user

11/29/2020, 1:35 AM

Sorry to pop in with a quick question. I originally had all of my markdown files in folders. To allow better compatibility with Dendron I've renamed them in the dir.filename.md format. Now I am initalizing a new Dendron workspace via VS and the "Starting Dendron" is spinning for a long time. The folder has about 1400 markdown files... is it normal for it to take so long? There is no error message, just endless spinning. Thanks!

user

11/29/2020, 1:37 AM

Oops, I did get an error message: ''{"ctx":"ReloadIndex.execute","error":{"status":"unknown","msg":"","friendly":"error initializing notes","payload":"{\"msg\":\"Maximum call stack size exceeded\",\"stack\":\"RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded\\n\\tat Object.iterator... (c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:676:327086)\"}"},"msg":"unable to initialize engine"}''

kevins8

11/29/2020, 2:16 AM

my bigger vaults have around 10k markdown files and it starts up in under ten seconds. dendron actually has a built in means of importing markdown files that also adds the appropriate metadata to the notes. i would try that vs manually renaming. https://dendron.so/notes/13c4a608-0a32-4c62-9c7e-2b7f9f2d18bf.html

user

11/29/2020, 2:17 AM

I'll give that a try!

user

11/29/2020, 2:32 AM

I've triggered the dendron.markdown pod, and I'm being asked to configure config.import.yml I'm plugging in the folder as an absolute directory... is that correct? -- Never mind, it looks like it's going, but I now have this error.

user

11/29/2020, 2:37 AM

error message

user

11/29/2020, 2:47 AM

looks like it was caused by double (( )) parenthesis

kevins8

11/29/2020, 3:21 AM

ah yeah, this is the syntax we use for note references (embedding notes within other notes)

kevins8

11/29/2020, 3:22 AM

we do have a check that stops this from going more than two levels deep

user

11/29/2020, 3:22 AM

interesting what I'm seeing is that it's importing my folders full of images but when it gets to my folders full of md files it stops

kevins8

11/29/2020, 3:23 AM

for

(())

, our parser is a little agressive and will throw an error if it doesn't see

((ref: ...))

syntax. we're planning on making this more permissive

user

11/29/2020, 3:24 AM

OK, thanks for the information. I'll try wiping the entire thing clean and making a new dendron workspace

user

11/29/2020, 3:29 AM

Now I'm getting a different error. Sorry, hate to use this channel for tech support. I can submit a ticket instead.

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{
  "ctx": "d:run",
  "err": {
    "status": "unknown",
    "msg": "",
    "payload": "{\"msg\":\"Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined\",\"stack\":\"TypeError: Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined\\n\\tat l.refreshNotesV2 (c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:102:53207)\\n\\tat l.writeNote (c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:102:54147)\\n\\tat async Promise.all (index 5)\\n\\tat async f.plant (c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:602:27791)\\n\\tat async d.execute (c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:897:167005)\\n\\tat async d.run (c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:11:100070)\\n\\tat async c:\\\\Users\\\\xxxxx\\\\.vscode\\\\extensions\\\\dendron.dendron-0.17.0\\\\dist\\\\extension.js:11:77405\"}"
  }
}

kevins8

11/29/2020, 3:52 AM

all good. is this on a clean workspace? can you dm me the out of

Dendron: Open Log

user

11/29/2020, 4:20 AM

Is there a step by step guide for dummies for managing your vaults in Git? The use case should include editing on the PC and a phone app - like Working Copy or something on the iPhone.

kevins8

11/29/2020, 5:35 AM

there will be in december. multi-vault is still experimental and we're still working to get it to feature parity. current goal is to make it stable by end of next week at which point we'll put out detailed guides and best practices

Bassmann

11/29/2020, 5:07 PM

My current workflow is quite simple: I keep the vaults in Git repos (one of them being the one Gitjournal uses). I simply added the vaults to Dendron as usual. Then I cloned the repos into the workspace and changed the

fspath

entries in

dendron.yml

to point to the repo folders. On top I use the autogit extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zeitnergmbh.auto-git) which regularly commits and pushes the repos. On iPhone and Android I use Gitjournal which works quite well. Two caveats there: 1) To use a hierarchy I need to call the entry something like ref.git and then manually add a title 2) Gitjournal uses a slightly different YAML frontmatter so I need to run `Doctor`to have proper ids once it's synced back to Dendron. Hope this helps. If anything is unclear happy to explain and also happy to get any feedback if this isn't best practice for any reason

kevins8

11/30/2020, 12:00 AM

this is basically what I would recommend. only thing I would stress is that the hiearchies should be relative to the workspace so the setup is portable between machines

user

11/30/2020, 12:19 AM

I was thinking of something even more simple - step by step - for those of us not so familiar with GIT. What should .gitignore contain? I currently have my Dendron folder initialized as a git repository on GitHub. I can git add, git commit and git push from my laptop and all seems well. I put .dendron.* in my gitignore file. I am OK using my iPhone to just create a scratch named file to be renamed later - basically my iPhone is just for capturing an on the fly note - once I am back at the PC I can refactor it. If there is nothing glaringly wrong I can start working on a guide to share.

kevins8

11/30/2020, 12:42 AM

right now, i would add the following to .gitignore

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.dendron.*
.jekyll-cache
.sass-cache

user

11/30/2020, 12:52 AM

Thanks. Should the entire Dendron folder be in the repository or ONLY the Vault folder?

kevins8

11/30/2020, 1:00 AM

i typically recommend one repo per vault

kevins8

11/30/2020, 1:00 AM

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.
└── Dendron
    |── .git
    |── dendron.code-workspace
    |── dendron.yml
    |── pods
    |── docs
    ├── vault1
    │   |── .git
    │   ├── foo.md
    │   └── foo.two.md
    └── vault2
        |── .git
        ├── foo.md
        └── foo.one.md

user

11/30/2020, 1:02 AM

Sorry - newbie here - I have the .git at the Dendron level, it sees everything. Would I setup ANOTHER repository for vault1 and vault2 - for a total of 3 repositories?