I set up Dendron on a new computer, and realized that the base keyboard shortcuts override a bunch of the VSCode defaults in my muscle memory (in particular, ones for navigating editing lines/characters, like cmd+l, cmd shift d, cmd shift l). In my main installation my workaround was to disable or remap the Dendron shortcuts, but I’m rethinking whether that’s sensible (since it’s a bit fragile to override these 1 at a time). How do others work around the problem of overlapping keyboard shortcuts? Could there be a way to “namespace” all the dendron keyboard shortcuts with a prefix of keys with 1 config setting (like capslock+d), or is there a way to batch add a prefix in front of every dendron command in a custom settings file?

Here's how I approached it.

i made a dendron note about vscode keymappings...

split the editor into a 2x2 grid...

pinned the keyboard shortcuts gui interface into one, and the json for it into the other.

had a note open to try things in

and i think the json settings and settings.json pinned in the same grid as the test note

then i pulled up all the dendron keyboard shortcuts in the GUI window and set them one by one, as well as added them to my note.

Something like that

or that

It will tell you when you have one key binding doing multiple actions. Then you can choose if you want to change yours or change the other one or just delete the other one if it’s something obscure.

I was hoping to avoid this manual step, but it seems like handcrafting this might be practical (and also help me to internalize the shortcuts I didn’t know about). FWIW most dendron shortcuts aren’t in my muscle memory aside from the lookup bar, I remapped them more to move them out of the way rather than to learn to take advantage of them (but I want to do better). Thanks for taking the time both to explain this + providing pictures 🙂

Another thing you might try is deleting almost all of the dendron shortcuts and as you find yourself calling them up in the command pallet you can click the gear and set them.

As far as I know anything you can call up in the command pallet you can set a keyboard shortcut for.

and the pictures were easy, on windows + shift+ windows + s lets you do a shot right to the clip board :)\

if Reload Index is supposed to be used by the user, when it should be called?

in my expereince about 20 seconds before you call reload window, maybe 2 minutes before you relaunch code

certianly dendron has a lot of actions you can take at present that dendron finds hard to keep track of across the whole system.

I'm having problems configuring the name for journal notes. I'd like my journal to have this naming pattern

cmd.journal.daily.Y.MM.dd

- but all journal notes are starting with

dendron

... 🤔 This is my current configuration:

journal:
        dailyDomain: this_seems_to_be_ignored
        name: cmd.journal.daily
        dateFormat: y.MM.dd
        addBehavior: childOfDomain`

Which produces

dendron.cmd.journal.daily.2022.07.03

(should not start with

dendron

) What am I doing wrong here?

if

addBehavior

is set to

childOfDomain

, it take the current active note's domain.

dailyDomain

is only used to set the domain of Daily Journal notes which are separate from journal notes. If you set

addBehavior

to

asOwnDomain

it should work.

Thanks heaps, this works great. I actually meant to use

dailyDomain

, but hadn't realized there is a difference between Journal notes and Daily Journal Notes 🙂

We'll make sure the distinctions are clear in the document moving forward 🙂

Hi everyone, Do you also experience issues clicking on hyperlinks ? When I read the dendron page like this one https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/230d0ccf-5758-4a8f-b39b-3b68e1482e2b/#create-a-github-repo and I click for instance on any hyperlink it does not open the link/page but only jumps a few line downward... Same happens within my workspace published in localhost, the url marked with the code

[text](url)

does not open the url address when clicking on it (same with ctrl+click or open in new tab) Best regards, Tunn

EDIT: I just checked and it seems to be linked to Firefox The issue does not happen on Google Chrome

Hi there... It is possible to find more information on hooks ? Has the development implemented schema|note|all and event triggers ?

can confirm the issue in firefox. will be looking into thiis

Is it possible to somehow highlight non-default values in

dendron.yml

? It will help a lot with seeing what options I've changed and which ones I didn't mess with.

unfortunately not at this point. you can see all the defaults in https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/packages/common-all/src/types/configs/dendronConfig.ts

That's unfortunate. Thank you for the link 👍

we do want to implement a model similar to vscode where defaults are hidden by default unless changed. its not currently prioritized but feel free to make it a crop 🙂