setting

defaultScratchAddBehavior

to

childOfCurrent

will create

proj.scratch.2021.04.19.170643.important

in that case

more configurations here: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/5c213aa6-e4ba-49e8-85c5-1bdcb33ce202.html#configuration

Does hovering over an uncreated file's link like

[[root.notcreated]]

will not create it now?

yes

thanks

hmm

is it possible to make a wiki style link that immediately hops to a certain line of the file you're going to

> link to specific sections of notes using the [[wiki link#header]] syntax

works only with headers I think

I did a setup with single vault compatible with Dendron and Obsidian. Dendron is is where I take most of my notes. Dendron's design and thoughtful features makes it very frictionless to write and find information. Dendron saved me a good chunk of time gauging how far my studying is at during a practice exam today. I kept a window pinned in a corner, used [[ to note each question topic I covered, and marked confidence from # → ####. When I ended the exam, what I had was this, with topics that needed more attention being larger.

At a glance I can see which topics I needed to spend more time on, then I get to the topic notes to review with a click. This was created while taking the timed exam, and it serves review notes for the exam review as well as a launch page for tomorrow's studying. Some other amazing features of Dendron include previewing notes on mouse-over, extracting notes, and quick factoring hierarchies. Dendron's hierarchy based core philosophy is amazing for finding notes you're looking for. Dendron's tagging system is built on this philosophy as well, and the experience is like having database. I look notes on a conversation about drones I had with friends I work out with → im also able to find it when I pull up a list of friends who are into drones → im also able to find it when I pull up a list of technologies Id like to try someday → im able to note that convo into a future journal entry during a free weekend after I take my exam, so on that day that reminder shows up and I get a refresher about what Ive learned about drone flying. Another domain of strength of Dendron is being built on VSCode and having all the VSCode plugins, like the Markdown Sidebar that I write down topics and concepts during pre-reading, to I prime my mind on the topics during reading lecture (Cornell note method). Other ones I use daily are Markdown-Kanban for organizing priorities, Draw Note tablet pen drawing inside a note, and Todo Tree for finding and finishing all the Todos accumulated during a week.

Obsidian has a more functional graph view, for now. I open up the same vault in Obsidian to do reviews. I also like the Calendar plugin in Obsidian that allows finding daily journal notes from a calendar ⊞ UI, so Im using Obsidian for journaling sometimes, and made my obsidian and dendron configs compatible with each other. Because Im using Markor for a single-button press mobile client and it can open on a single file but not open to the most recent journal file, Im interested in figuring out how to make Obsidian open its daily template on the same file instead.

I'm in Obsidian much of the time for the Outliner feature. Folding and hiding away depth and zooming in(also called drilling down) is a "must have" feature for me. I use it for active recall and a number of other things: https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/717965437182410786/832070737358618675.

Overall, I find Dendron better for efficient and frictionless notetaking, and Obsidian better for hiding away layers of information when it's not needed. In design philosophy, Dendron is for those who like their notes in a tree structure connected by links, and Obsidian is geared towards those who like their notes connected by links and explore around links with the mouse. It's really neat that both programs are compatible with your single set of notes and Im thankful for that design consideration

Really nice mini writeup 🙂 I might look into using both at the same time as well. That's the beauty of wysiwyg.

Has anyone had issues with trying to follow links with ctrl+enter or ctrl+click (both have same behaviour) throwing "selection is not a valid link"? Even if the page in question exists already

getting the following error this morning: {"ctx":"_activate","msg":"issue initializing Dendron"}

and longer error that references a specific document: "ctx":"ReloadIndex.execute","error":{"status":"bad_parse_for_note"

I can troubleshoot that - but it killed all the Dendron commands in the command palette

one parsing error in one doc disables entire tool?

True bad UX should definitiv be Improved, the Only file where I would understand that the parse disables the Entire Doc would be the Dendron config.

the issue was I used a colon in the frontmatter in a title for one doc

broke Dendron initialization

which I assume is what broke the command palette

i corrected the issue in the frontmatter and restarted -- no issues now

definitely a self-inflicted wound, but an outsized impact

yeah that is true should be something that gets improved

if a bug report is needed please advise where to put it

Here this is the Correct Place -> https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=bug_report.md&title=