yeah, that would require the captures that are mentioned in the 👆 feature request

Yeah, that makes sense. Probably could look up some way to do what I want with Unix commands 🤔

you can do it today using the rename command (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rename.1.html). only caveat is that this is external to dendron so we wouldn't be able to automatically update links (if you rename or refactor inside dendron, we take care of updating all links as well)

It would be cool if you could drag things around to reorganize in the hierarchy, which I'm sure you've thought of, but it does seem a lot easier than using the refactor command

I'm loving the new Tasks feature, but I'm struggling to figure out how to integrate it into a usable workflow. I tend to work with big backlogs of tasks across multiple projects, and I have a cognitive need to have things ordered/organised automatically so I can prioritise structurally as I can't do it in my head (hellooo ADHD). Can anyone think of any way that I could do that combining tags, backlinks, etc...?

I'm in a similar ADHD boat, and what I'm trying currently is to use Dendron's tags (like priority, thinking modes like light or deep focus, etc). This lets me see backlinks easily. I'm combining this with the Todo Tree extension, which gives me another interface for seeing whatever tags I configure it to look for. It's too soon for me to say if it's working because it's a good approach or if it's just working because it's my Newest Shiny Approach. But it's working, for now!

Interesting. Might poke around with that idea

The lack of ability to find anything (physical notebooks, not Dendron) stresses me out, yet at the same time so does the idea of having to categorize and classify all my notes. (No problem transcribing)

That stresses me out, too—and it's also why I love VS Code's "Find in Files" search. As long as I can think of some of words that should be in the body of the note, Find in Files almost always helps me fish it back out of the mess. And then if I want, I can move the note to where I was searching for it, since that's where I apparently expected it to be. 😅

That brings to mind the "I put it where I would find it, now I can't find it" concept 😉

I'm so used to doing

grep -irn <text>

from the terminal that I completely forget about the

Search: Find in Files

and the other

Search:

features like

Search: Replace in Files

(because I end up doing, "How do I do this with the

sed

command again...")

Getting familiar with the regex (I have it turned on and generally just stuff

(.*)

in between words) is a big 80/20, especially when in between systems.

Ugh, regex is the bane of my existence. I can never remember, no matter how many notes I have, the difference between * and +. line boundries (^ and $) I can remember but modifiers and quantifiers are going to drive me insane

Thanks so much for your suggestions! Definitely sounds like a good place for me to start putting something together. Tags definitely seem like the right approach for the time being. For me, part of the challenge is that if I can't see it, it doesn't exist. So having the ability to visualise everything is vital. Add that to the fact that organising that visualation myself uses far too many spoons, and I often end up not doing stuff. Knowing I can search for stuff is a million miles away from seeing it in front of me. I'm thinking that for Task Notes to be truly useful for me I'm going to need a way of linking the status stuff up, creating views through filtering and sorting, and making those views pervasive.

Would be good if u can explain ur system over loom. Love to see what works and copy for own use

On further reflection, one of my issues is that I work across multiple projects, and there are cross-project dependencies, as well as tasks that live in multiple projects. And finding the right thing to work on now kind of depends on being able to see it from the perspective I'm in now.

This is a great idea. If it makes sense to do it within Dendron, great, but this is part of a wider conversation I've been having within my own community of neurodivergent professionals/entrepreneurs/academics. I'd be happy to host it if it's too specialist for Dendron's community itself.

Considering the number of people contributing to this thread I'd say there is at least a small audience here. Maybe we need a Dendron channel for neurodivergents.

I'd be happy with either, or perhaps both! Dendron has the capacity to be a superb piece of assistive technology.

in terms of task management, you might be interested in our discussion about revamping how we manage tasks inside of dendron https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/discussions/1655

Thanks Kevin, that's a great approach. Essentially, it means using Dendron as a kind of NoSQL database with interfaces to other applications. It's a powerful principle in general, not just for tasks/projects. There's still something absent for me in the many-to-many tasks/projects relationship, but that's not really covered by any tool I can find at the moment (else I'd be using it).

something that is not there but I'm also going to propose is adding a

depends

attribute to a task note

a task can depend on other tasks (or even notes). dependencies are note ids

That, along with a way to visualise them, would be incredibly valuable. I've been looking for something that's "kanban with dependencies" for ages.

Part of the reason that would be so valuable to me is because I can use it in the exploratory side of my work, which I do more-or-less by backward design ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_design )

I really would like the visual aspect because as part of my mixed bag of issues with I also have problems with object permanence /consistency. it's not so much that I think something doesn't exist if I can't see it, logically I know that isn't the case, it's more like if I don't see it I forget it exists. (it's hard to explain) being able to visualize things and their connections is a tremendous help and one of the reasons I started with Dendron, the 'Note Links' web thingy on the front page got my attention. I've yet to get it to work, but I'm hoping one day 😉

For me, it's very much "out of sight, out of mind"—which to use computer analogies, is closer to "out of my working memory stack" than "out of any known storage." So yeah, seeing visual reminders / connections is a huge help for me as well. Outside of what's in Dendron, I've even got a little "note card bleacher" with physical reminders in front of my monitor, just to help keep things feeling relevant.

Thanks for being interested! I'll try to do that, but it'll be next week at the earliest since I'm juggling a lot at the moment.

Today I decided to prune my Dendron vaults a bit and move things around. There was a bit of friction and I'd like to understand if I miss some functionality or if it's not possible atm: 1)

Move Note

nicy moves a note from one vault to another but it doesn't seem to include images or other assets linked in the note. Is there a setting for it? 2) The tree view v2 didn't update after a move and also a

Reload Index

didn't help. Reloading vscode did but that's cumbersome. Is there a way to update the tree view?

Recently I changed settings to use only

journal

instead of

daily.journal

as the starting hierarchy for my journal notes. That works nicely but it seems the calendar view has the latter form hardcoded. At least no dots appear anymore for days with a journal note and clicking on a date creates a note in the

daily.journal

hierarchy. I didn't have time to check with a separate test vault so it may simply be something in my config. Any insight highly appreciated