I'm not sure the dot hierarchy is easier than folders, especially if you are used to. One rule of thumb for new product success is to introduce new concepts in old habits. Not form entirely new habits. Refactoring is easy in folders; difficult in dot hierarchy. I just now refactored about 20 files and got an error. Took almost 30 min to manually modify to fix the issue (https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/735365126227493004/941889394191786025) What I prefer is a single folder and then tagging because one particular note can fall under many categories. I'm facing it now: I am reading "Software Engineering in Google" book. Should I place it under books or software engineering? If tagging is possible (and automatically created), then I would put it in one place and tag the hell out of it. Again, to each their own.

You can apply tags in dendron using

#tagname

and a note is then created for that tag with back links to all the place it is used

Are the tag pages automatically created? is it a new feature? As per documentation, I have to create pages manually and then while exporting dendron will fill those pages. Am I missing anything?

If you use a tag then ctrl+enter (I think that's the command?) To go to note the same way you do any other link it will create the note for you and back links will be kept up to to date. You only need to do this once; there may be some other way but this is how I've done it

It won't populate them with direct links, but in the back links on the explorer menu or in the note preview it should show all places it's used

Wow. Thanks. Will try it out.

Hi, just started to use dendron recently, is it possible in any way to create a link that directs to a specific directory or file that are not in the vault?

So If I initialize a workshop in the vault which I am using In Obsidian it sould be fine and dandy rt?

that is my understanding

So i say create vault here right or its before this

From vscode, you'd run the command

Dendron: Initialize Workspace

, and then using the file picker, choose the folder that you want the Dendron vault to be under. You can use either the code workspace or the native workspace, and just follow the prompts. Make sure you don't accidentally delete the folder; make a backup if you aren't sure.

I fucked up

I deleted it and it got synced on my next cloud

Anyway to udo this

you might have some OS specific options, but I'm not sure

Maybe something here will help:

Thanks

It worked

Restoring it

---
id: bgAO89tfeYkacEV2fUubS
title: Root
desc: ''
updated: 1644678231192
created: 1644678231192
---

how to get this for all my Notes?

Just to be clear, are you looking to add this (frontmatter) to all the notes in your Obsidian vault, or just the ones in your Dendron vault?

when you make notes through Dendron using the lookup command, frontmatter like this is added automatically

Dendron also has a doctor command () which can add frontmatter to notes that are missing it

but this is for notes that are managed by Dendron

yep, see the section on file links -> https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/3472226a-ff3c-432d-bf5d-10926f39f6c2.html#file-links

question: do backlinks not work across vaults?

I mean like if not the files in the assets folder?

anyone taking notes in Japanese? I wonder how you name the files (I am deciding in between using English vs Romanji vs Japanese for filename)

They should work, are you having some problems?

Hi, Is there any way to view the contents with same title but in different files? Here is the case, I have a new-thoughts section in my daily journal, I may want to track the new-thoughts section. The workaround I figured out is doing it manually by copying the note reference of

#new-thoughts

in to a file

daily.journal.newThoughts.md

and update the file once I have some new thoughts. Is there any automatic way to do so?