@User switches btw typora and dendron. vscode has a extension for the workflow: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cyberbiont.vscode-open-in-typora&utm_source=VSCode.pro&utm_campaign=AhmadAwais

thanks Kevin. and great work

and if you haven't already come across it, this is our revamped getting started tutorial: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/678c77d9-ef2c-4537-97b5-64556d6337f1.html

Open in Typora confirmed as working in Linux

It is not necessary to use an entire plugin for this, just setup a custom task for example:

{
  // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
  // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "label": "Open in Typora",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "typora",
      "args": ["${file}"],
      "presentation": {
        "reveal": "never"
      },
      "problemMatcher": []
    }
  ]
}

Then this task can be mapped to any custom keybinding that you want to use

And this same pattern can be used for any opening any external editor or shell script

Aside from this I had a question: Does dendron format the pages it changes? For example, I renamed a file and had the link to the file in a few other files. I am using prettier as my default formatter, but when the changes occurred they were not formatted with prettier but I think by another formatter. Is this the default behavior? And if so why?

I just tested this again and it does format the files but not by the formatter I have set for markdown files.

right now dendron will autoformat on a few operations. we have an issue in the backlog to address this: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/572

This is good to know! I've been seeing very occasional changes in my files (on Mac) and wasn't sure whether it was mostly likely coming from Dendron, my iOS editor, or what. I hadn't reported it yet since I wasn't sure which tool might have been the culprit. I've mostly seen the addition of extra new lines in lists, removal of whitespace from the end of a heading line, and adding extra escapes. Are those probably related to this?

yes!

Is there a config to turn the auto-formatting off?

What's the name of the new daily note then and does that fit to the schema?

So, my scenario is 1 desktop, 1 laptop with a second brain being synced between

It appears as though any changes to my workflow that can be caught in the Workspace file are moved, but no snippets are. This presumably is because they are part of the larger VS Code IDE?

your snippets are Probably user snippets and these are part of the VSConfig you can change them to Workspace snippets to sync them through the Workspace or you can sync your VSConfig between booth Places.

@bass

Wow, 👻 mystery solved! It's like the Scooby Doo gang just was here.

not right now since the way rename/refactor works is that we look for wiki links and re-write them. we use remark to parse and write links. the reason we do this is to accurately match a link (eg. avoid links in code blocks and fences). this also has the side effect of formatting the file because the entire note is converted into an AST and then back into markdown. currently looking into remark (https://github.com/remarkjs/remark) compiler and need to figure out if there are options to tune the formatting behavior or patch it ourselves

question is do we need to rewrite them? if we are just parsing the file to get the information out I don't think so the only thing we would need to rewrite would be the frotmatter part to update the updated var

we also update all links inside the note. if it was just the frontmatter, that would be fine but since we're re-writing notes inside the docs, that require a parse/compile cycle

Can't we use remark parser to identify only the lines that need to be changed (that are accurate links) and apply regex on those lines ourselves? That would skip the entire rewriting altogether.

yep, we totally can, especially since we get exact positions when parsing 🙂 if anyone is interested in taking that on, happy to point to the relevant part in the code

otherwise i'll have time to work on it early may

I have a few hundred notes that already have yaml headers. Is there a way I can preserve these metadata when running doctor? Doctor won't run at all on the files with headers.

Like, I would like all the dendron-generated metadata, as well as my own custom metadata

@User so my journal schema looks like this:

yml
version: 1
schemas:
    - id: journal
      title: journal
      desc: ""
      parent: root
      children:
          - year
    - id: year
      title: year
      pattern: "[0-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
      children:
          - month
    - id: month
      title: month
      pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
      children:
          - day
    - id: day
      title: day
      pattern: "[0-9][0-9]"
      namespace: true
      template:
        id: template.daily.journal
        type: note

And my note filename generated with the 'create daily journal note` is daily.journal.2021.04.16.md . The goal is to have a template attached to that command

yeah then you need to add daily in front of the journal in the schema

Exactly this 👍