Ah, I see. I'm not sure

I can see that as being good for those unfamiliar with Markdown. Removes the barrier to entry for folks. But, I think you'd need a WYSIWYG editor (or whatever obsidian does behind the scenes) at that point.

Well yes. The downside is you can’t see the underlying markdown structure, I think that is always going to be at odds. So it should be an option (like in obsidian). The advantage is double the screen real estate, essentially.

And also it would work better on portrait mode displays

For example: - I'm trying to get my wife to write docs/journal/etc using Dendron - But learning a text editor is a barrier to entry for her, let alone markdown - Shes used to using Word, etc. - IF Dendron had something where she could "just start typing" then set things to H1, H2, bold, etc LATER using WYSIWYG, that may be beneficial - OR she could just learn MD and a couple of keyboard shortcuts and be on her way

There is an extension that tries to do that (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tejasvi.markless), but it's a far cry (in my opinion) from Typora or a similar editor.

I personally believe she should just learn MD. Because any tooling will have a learning curve. Compared to something like eMacs, markdown is pretty easy to learn.

(preaching to the choir here! HAHAH!)

Or vim for some of us 😄

Its nice to have 1 or the other in the toolbox! Just in case you have to ssh into "the prod" linux server in the middle of the night. I doubt VSCode will be installed!

(or git!)

what would be the threshold for when you should see slowdowns because of the number of files in dendron? I'm not sure if it's dendron related or VSCode related, I did a migration of all my org-roam files to markdown, things have significantly slowed down from the sample dendron I was playing with

eh! Need some help here.. fundamental question: 1. I'm in a Dendron workspace 2. In node

legal.md

3. I want to make a timeline using some Python code 4. In my Dendron head, I want to

CTR+l

,

legal.timeline.py

(NOTICE the .py) 5. Go ahead and write my python script 6. Export the

timeline.png

to the

/assets

folder in the vault 7. Link to

timeline.png

from within the original

legal.md

file and move on with my life BUT... I can't do that. I have to upend my thoughts and

CTRL+n

a new file, then write the Python, etc. The end result being that this little script is outside my vault and therefore, my pool of knowlege.. I'm I the only one this happens to?

I don't see how start typing and set h1 h2 and so on later is different between word and MD

You can put the script inside of your vault, you can even link to it from your notes. Having Dendron lookup create non-note files is complicated though. What if you wanted a note named

something.py

(so

something.py.md

)?

I hear you. Its a mindset. Some people are "computer intimidated" by new programs.

Ah...

Dendron has been tested up to large note counts (10K+) and generally holds up pretty well. There are definitely things that could be faster though, is there anything specific you find is slow?

Show hear how easy it is to look at a cheatsheet and format later :)

Yeah, the autogenerated YAML frontmatter is an issue I think. Causes problem with python parser, or at least it underlines like it WOULD (havent tested yet)

Hmmm. yeah... I'm about to create a python virtual env in my vault... thats another facet

Lets see. As such, I'll add

.venv

to the

.gitignore

file in case sync these notes...

(I see its was added by Dendron 🙂 )

If we were looking at Emacs and Orgmode I'd say just create a codeblock and execute it but I doubt VSCode supports that. But you could add the code to a block in a note to keep the knowledge

Exactly

Ideally, I don't want to duplicate the script (in case it changes).

But I hear you

interesting

Not at my laptop atm but I somehow recall you can have python run just selected lines in a file. Maybe you can use that to execute the script?

~~hm... I cant seem to get a python script (

legal-timeline.py

) to execute when a virt env is created in my Dendron vault. I'm going to try moving the script out of the vault and executing~~ Disregard