is this the proper way to center in markdown lol works in obsidian and dendron so i figure it might be a trick to center or? obv thats just html tags, or is there another way

I don't think there's a native way to align

What do you do when you have a concept that you know you want to make a note on, but you aren't sure yet where you want to place it in your hierarchy of notes? I was thinking that I could use scratch notes as a sort of inbox for "here is an idea or concept that I have thoughts on but isn't put in the hierarchy yet."

that sound like the Amoebe workflow https://www.dendron.so/notes/e780000d-c784-4945-8e42-35218a3ecf10.html

Interesting. So, let me explain what I've been thinking through here. I am learning a bit about the concept of "mental models." I have learned that this concept originated from cognitive science and specifically the domain of reasoning within cognitive science. I keep struggling to decide whether I put mental models as a child of cognition and reasoning, or just make it the parent, and then put that in the note (e.g., Mental Models originated from [[cognition]] and [[cognition.reason]]) so that there is connection for future me. I know this is a personal decision. Any opinions to share? 🙂

In this workflow, I would make Mental Models the parent, write about it, and then start to break the ideas into children.

I guess he ends up changing the hierarchy. 🙂

I have always had trouble with notes because I kept thinking about structure so when I started using dendron I adopted the amoeba pattern and made a point to not think about structure until it comes naturally.

That is a way you could go about it. Or you just put it as an Area Mental Models that links to cognition and Cognition.reason. or you just put it as a scratch note for now to get it out and worry later on where to fit it. you are not limited by the hierachy its a tool for convenience.

Yeah. Makes sense. There is no right way. After watching that video, I think making it the parent makes the most sense for now, and then later if I want to refactor the hierarchy, I can just do that. Thanks for the thoughts!

That would be my recommendation too. Just start and refactor later (one more killer feature in Dendron IMHO). Actually I use both options: if I stumble upon something interesting in a broader topic I start with a new hierarchy around this. However for things I'm not yet sure if and where they fit scratch notes are my way to go. It's only that I have to prune them during a weekly review

should I be following this quickstart in my vault directory or the one above? https://www.dendron.so/notes/861e4e48-dcc5-4813-a695-8940ba6e64d3

Node Version: 10.19.0 Dendron-cli: 0.21.0 Dendron-11ty: 1.3.1

its a node version issue. if you upgrade node to v12 or greater, you should see the error go away. i'll add the requirement in the docs as well

that fixed that error, good catch! That's what I get for never using node before lol Now I'm running into this one though:

Ive been getting that error too... I was on v13 and v14... downgraded to v12 and things worked... although now no content is showing up 😛

all the urls I hit are 404s, It seems that the pages arent being built. is there anything obvious im doing wrong? https://github.com/theianjones/theianjones/tree/migrate-to-11ty

im running

npx dendron-cli buildSiteV2 --wsRoot .  --stage dev --serve

in this directory

when you build under

--stage dev

content gets copied to

{workspace}/build

directory. run

--stage prod

to build to output specified in

dendron.yml

theres no output when I run

npx dendron-cli buildSiteV2 --wsRoot .  --stage prod

the cli will also inspect the

vaults

portion of

dendron.yml

to find files

it looks like yours is empty right now

ah

when dendron initializes, it will write vaults into

dendron.yml

you can see an example here: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron-site/blob/master/dendron.yml

Im not sure if this is silently failing

I added

vaults:
  - fsPath: vault

fsPath

is relative to your workspace root. I don't see a folder called

vaults

in your github repo

(the configuration is based on the typical dendron workspace layout --> https://dendron.so/notes/3bff1195-1d13-4e7a-bc2f-7e4cc617109c.html )