I just discovered Dendron today (been using Obsidian) and installed it to go through the tutorials. I have run into several issues/questions and just wanted to ask them here. If there is a better place to ask them, please let me know. First one, on the left side of my screen, I have three 'Backlinks' sections and they all look slightly different. What's going on here? The only page I have open is the tutorial.5-conclusions.md file. Thanks

here is good. what did you run into?

Hey, thanks, Kevin. Nice to meet you.

I watched the video on how to import Obsidian notes, but the config.import.yml file has changed. I need to provide a vault name. I have tried using Dendron (the name of my vault, I think) and a new unique name. Both times it tells me that that vault does not exist. How do I get the import to work and what do I use as a vault name?

ah, vault name should be

vault

Dendron

is your workspace

That was simple, and it worked. But was not intuitive. Thanks.

no its not. we're working on a completely new pod interface that will make this process better

The import added extended content to my asset names but did not update the links in my notes. Did I miss something or is that not working yet?

Picture of issue

hmm, it should update assets but going to ask @User to confirm

Thanks. I don't have that many yet so it would be easy to fix manually. But thanks for checking.

Though I understand the import not importing my custom dates or fields, isn't tags a standard field? I kind of expected it to migrate that. Does it not migrate anything from existing metadata, only content?

we don't currently migrate frontmatter. can you submit a feature request so we can track it in our roadmap? https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=

@Clifton pls also share your feature req, so I can vote for it. Since I use combo of Obsidian and Dendron

How do I execute code in markdown code blocks. I saw a page a few days ago, I didn't note it down, and now I cannot find it again. Someone should make a convenient note taking app for devs or something. I remember the format being:

python (cmd<blah blah>)
code here

Pretty sure this is a feature of "markdown preview enhanced" with a syntax like: \`\`\`python {cmd} print('hi') \`\`\` Reference: https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/code-chunk As far as I know though, the current Dendron markdown preview doesn't yet support this. there's other functionality you can leverage to execute code in various ways, which may or may not be adequate for you: - https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/735365126227493004/832952482853814342 VSCode command

workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText

- https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/735365126227493004/914830544133570570 VSCodeVim filter command

I added a request. Import metadata from Obsidian #2018 https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/2018

Thanks for the reply. I have lots of learning to do.

Why is Dendron starting a local web server at

0.0.0.0:41985

?

dendron runs a local server to do indexing and lookup. see https://docs.dendron.so/notes/ENeBSPWAtTlQclXYWNm6c/

makes sense, but why does it not bind to localhost only? atm anyone in the same wifi network can connect to it

that's a bug. will fix it for the next release!

Looks like the server has no auth, so this could be a pretty bad vulnerability

It enables anyone in the same wifi network to read and modify all of my Dendron data

I recommend fixing this asap

will have a patch out today

localhost-restriction

Does the bug have security implications?

it’s been patched now. the bug meant that if someone else was on your network and knew the port that dendron was running on (this is randomized at startup), they would be able to access your notes.