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  • u
    Yes it does thank you
  • u
    And you should sleep :P
  • h
    Personally I have one vault (so one common root, one big tree). But the root has a few immediate children so you could say I conceptually have more than one tree in my vault. If one of these subtrees become big I can always create another vault and set up a multivault workspace (https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/24b176f1-685d-44e1-a1b0-1704b1a92ca0.html) so it can be a separate tree. You can always start simple with one tree and move on to a multi-vault workspace later without commiting to one particular setup 🙂
  • h
    Also, even though Dendron is built hierarchy-first, we encourage you to use links where you feel it's appropriate. Our graph view shows edges for both hierarchies and links, and the backlink panel (https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/f7ebd4aa-8ba7-4bc5-bd00-a1efc5315f07.html#backlinks-view) is great for navigating through links. Hierarchies encourage a rigid structure in your notes and links encourage quick and flexible connections between ideas. They definitely complement each other.
  • u
    Right now I'm currently organizing my notes for an it certification I'm studying for and it currently seems to make more sense to use one root maybe it will change later. I can see linking "leafs" together as being useful too. I probably need to add more notes to see how best to use each tho
  • u
    Also I'm transferring my notes from obsidian to dendron
  • h
    I agree. When I first started taking notes with Dendron, I didn't have a lot of notes so it was a bit hard to grasp what the best way to organize my notes was. I kept it simple and let it happen naturally. Once I had a bit more notes in my vault I started thinking about the organization.
  • u
    Yea Tho I do have help in that the certification has an exam topics list that provides a bit of a hierarchal structure Tho thinking about it now maybe I shouldn't use that and let it be more organic 🤔 I'm not sure
  • h
    If the material is already hierarchical, I think it makes sense to keep it hierarchical 🙂 You can still make links between them.
  • h
    A big counter-argument for hierarchies is that it's not flexible and it requires you to think about the right hierarchy before making a note. That up-front cost is definitely expensive if you don't have a good idea of how it should be structured. Not in your case I think 😄
  • h
    Dendron also has a lot of features to quickly refactor your hierarchies.
  • u
    Too be fair it only provides like 2 to three levels of hierarchy and I have to generate the rest but that's still a good start I've used the refractor a couple of times and it feels really powerful
  • u
    But having used obsidian for a bit I can definitely see how a backlinks only structure seems like it'd get unwieldy after a while. Seeind some of the graphs I have no idea how people find crap in them even with backlinks
  • h
    This is a blog post about tagging, but it goes into hierarchies vs links: https://fortelabs.co/blog/a-complete-guide-to-tagging-for-personal-knowledge-management/ I think it captures the idea that both can benefit from each other very well
  • h
    I wonder if we can make use of Obsidian Mobile to work with our Dendron notes on iPad?
  • c
    if I understand things correctly, we can now uninstalled the markdown preview enhanced plugin? is there a way to still trigger automatic preview?
  • k
  • c
    I've enabled it in my dendron.yml, but it's not taking. I've restarted it several times, and ensured that my yml is valid. but when I try to invoke preview it tells me to install the markdown preview plugin
  • c
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    dev:
    enableWebUI: true
    previewV2Enabled: true
  • k
    should be the following
  • k
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    dev:
    enablePreviewV2: true
    enableWebUI: true
  • c
    damnit. I'm so sorry. I need more coffee.
  • m
    Did older documentation have 
    previewV2Enabled
    ? Cause even I had that key (Set to 
    false
    . Still ...)
  • m
    BTW, the checkbox still shows as 
    [x]
    in previewV2 I think 
    Dendron Markdown Preview Enhanced
    still renders better
  • k
    yes that was the old value. we are trying to be more consistent with naming options
  • k
    fixing the options is still on our roadmap for preview v2. its not yet at 100% parity which is why we haven't removed the old preview
  • a
    Hey, Kevin, in your Greenhouse talk last week you mentioned you use separate Dendron workspaces to look at your vaults (personal/work). I'm not sure I understand how it works. Does your file structure look something like this? I feel like too many things are called 
    workspace
    and they have different meanings. :/ - root - vaults - one - root.md - two - root.md - three - root.md - workspaces - one - dendron.yml
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    yml
        vaults:
          - fsPath: ../../vaults/one
          - fsPath: ../../vaults/two
    - dendron.code-workspace
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    json
            "folders": [
                { "path": "../../vaults/one" },
                { "path": "../../vaults/two" }
            ],
    - two - dendron.yml
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    yml
        vaults:
          - fsPath: ../../vaults/two
          - fsPath: ../../vaults/three
    - dendron.code-workspace
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    json
            "folders": [
                { "path": "../../vaults/two" },
                { "path": "../../vaults/three" }
            ],
  • k
    yes. so i have a set of shared vaults and a set of workspaces. more details here -> https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/7f197479-279e-4b1e-9edd-21bf2da423b0.html#workspace-and-vaults
  • a
    Thank you! I remember reading this page before, but the info about workspaces didn't register at the time.
  • k
    the info on the workspaces also was just added after your question 😅
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