this lets you write scripts that automatically get turned into bash commands. Super cool

got it

super cool

an easier way to create notes, FYI, is to call the dendron engine via HTTP since this is how the dendron plugin creates notes

you can launch just the engine independently using the

dendron-cli

https://dendron.so/notes/8b03ed06-4f46-46e0-8652-c6abf2266a79.html#launchengineserver

- example of connecting to the engine: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron-11ty/blob/main/_data/domains.js#L6:L6 - you can find engine type defintiions here: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/packages/common-all/src/typesv2.ts#L296:L296 (we haven't documented the api yet)

obligatory disclaimer that this is plugging into dendron internals and the api is subject to change 😅

fyi, @User , i realize this isn't the api schema but in case you wanted to play around with the current engine, the above might be interesting to poke at ☝️

Ohhh nice!

one of the items i want to do as a fun weekend project is to use @User alfred script on the dendron engine: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind and modify it to surface dendron notes locally (or on the published site if you have one). this will be super do-able when we get the 11ty changes done 🙂

currently you could do this using just the current engine api but it would show you a json blob which isn't the friendliest format for humans 😅

oh thats going to be a killer feature

The Doctor function is working flawlessly for me without error now. I was wondering - would it be possible to somehow blacklist certain notes? For instance - I don't want my daily template to have the frontmatter - I found that if it contains frontmatter, such as ID, then when a new note is made with this template the Doctor will not fix them - you will have 2 notes with the same ID. I also found if you leave the ID text but erase the number in frontmatter you will end up with an ID of NULL afte rrunning Doctor. Probably not great, but I don't know. So - in short - would it be possible to ignore template files, or is it OK to have duplicate IDs?

I have a question that might be about VSCode, as I am using it for the first time with Dendron. Have tried to google this, but lack the right terminology... forgive me if off topic! Anyway... I am struggling with the editing behaviour of VSCode - specifically the cursor which keeps changing to a “fat cursor” and I have to type

i

to get into edit mode and insert text. I am used to editors like Atom where the cursor is always in “edit mode”. Is there a setting that gives an Atom-like behaviour? Also moving the cursor with the arrow keys has completely alien behaviour to me. When pressing ⬆️ to move the cursor to the previous line in soft-wrapped text the cursor ignores that the text is soft wrapped. Pressing ⬅️ at the start of a line does nothing, when I would expect the cursor to move to the end of the previous line.

It sounds like you have the vim plugin enabled. Somewhere in the set up I think you enabled it. If you disable that plugin you’ll have a more standard experience

Thank you @ianjones! That did the trick! Is Vim a recommended plugin with Dendron @kevins8 ? It is in my recommended list and I must have just installed it when setting up VSCode for the first time.

can you share the schema you are using to initialize the template? id's should be re-generated so if dendron is re-using the same id, then thats a bug

and yes, we fixed a bunch of doctor issues in the last release. thanks to @User for helping me debug 🙂

it's not. sometimes vscode will recommend plugins based on your file extension so it might have come from that? i think markdownlint is another extension that vscode will recommend to you for markdown

How can I customize the theme? I was trying to change to a dark theme as per the Just the Docs instructions, but my changes to the _config.yml didn't do anything. I'm previewing locally, and my terminal keeps telling me it's using the remote theme even though I've commented that line out.

Alternatively, can I try a different theme?

hmm, can you share your

_config.yml

? currently, dendron's fork of just-the-docs is the only "supported" theme for dendron though there's nothing stopping folks from creating new themes. we do want to open this up in the future to support existing themes but that'll be a mid 21 action item

theme: "dendron-jekyll"
color_scheme: dark
#remote_theme: dendronhq/dendron-jekyll
title: Dendron
logo: "/assets/images/logo.png"

This is the top few lines of

Dendron\docs\_config.yml

— I haven't changed anything below.

hmm, it worked for me. one additional step I took is to go into

Gemfile

and add

dendron-jekyll

as a theme.

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins
gem "jekyll"
# uncomment to preview locally
gem "dendron-jekyll"

i then ran

bundler

and then

bundler exec jekyll s --watch

to get the dark theme

Oh that's perfect! Thank you 😄

Thanks for the explanation! I’ll be more careful installing recommended extensions in future.

Hi - the template was basically something like this:

---
id: bf5fddc6-b8dc-43f2-836b-35f20c69e606
title: '10'
desc: ''
updated: 1607438219292
created: 1606011727566
---

# Notes

# Key Points

With the ID already filled in, the new notes created using this template had this ID number - and after the Doctor runs the ID doesn't change - therefore there are two notes with this ID - the template file and the note created with the template. I then changed the template to have:

---
id 
... etc

Where ID is blank, then Doctor filled in NULL.

ah, so when you say template, you mean a note that you copy and paste? if so, you can simply not include the frontmatter at all and doctor will generate it when you run it

No, this was a template file. Initially the template file, called "template.daily.md" did NOT have the frontmatter section. I ran Doctor to bring in some notes from Obsidian, and Doctor added the frontmatter to my template.daily.md file, which is used as my daily note template. I then created a new daily note, and sure enough, EVERYTHING in the template.daily.md file came over. I have since removed the frontmatter and shoved the template.daily.md in the assets folder - now Doctor ignores this file and doesn't generate frontmatter for it (which is the desired result).