from what I understand Note Traits give you way to create JS hooks for custom actions with notes. Templates give you a standard way to format a note based on where it falls in a hierarchy. Snippets are a core VSCode feature and allow you to insert "snippets" of text into a note.

Note trait lets you programmatically change how some notes are created / hook into what happens during note creation. One of which is specifying what template should be applied. This is one of many ways to apply a template to a note, and it does much more than just that. templates themselves are just notes when they are by themselves and it becomes useful when it's applied to another note either by schemas, note traits, or the

Apply Template

command. Like @Woods【ウオッヅ】 says, snippets are what's native to VSCode, and usually used for small bits of things that you type often (but there is nothing really stopping you from making giant snippets)

isn't there a preferred method that would be more sustainable over time?

It depends on your use-case. They are related concepts - injecting content into notes - but are used in slightly different ways.

Most people will probably just want to use Templates and Snippets and not worry about Note Traits unless they wanted to dig into some advanced workflow features

None of the three mentioned are opposing constructs. note traits are built on top of templates, and we try to improve templates constantly. snippets won't go anywhere since it's native to VSCode and is a very core editor feature.

ok

Hello everyone

anyone here also a Obsidian/Logseq user ?

Obsidian user 👋

Are use an outliner fan ? xD

working on some plugins for it to bring Dendron CLI features into Obsidian. I like VSCode but honestly hate using it for PKM

no - I've tried outliner but it didn't work for me

I've been looking into dendron

wonder how the hierarchy system compares to outlining ?

I read Kevin's blog https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/3dd58f62-fee5-4f93-b9f1-b0f0f59a9b64/

quite the opposite of me. At first glance, I'm not a fan of VSCode but I love Dendron and, out of necessity, I decided to make VScode my digital workshop and spend most of my time there.

Since I'm a dev I have my VSCode configured for programming and don't like to have multiple workspace settings setup for switching between PKM and Code. While I used Obsidian before finding Dendron I had configured it pretty heavily for PKM so each has their niche for me

Personally I wish there was some more universal modular text editor that is open-source like dendron but focused on writing and not programming

Are you referring to Bullet Journaling? https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/e65dfe53-41f7-4b16-b870-dadec1775497/

yeah

I Used to be a heavy GNU emacs user. But at work, I can't easily use it (it is a windows machine). It was the perfect tool for me

I mean instead of

lang.rust.operator.md

, I'm doing something like

- lang
  - rust
    - operator

Emacs always seemed like something incredibly useful to lean if I could just take the time. Crazy powerful, but also crazy obtuse

ah, aren't they equivalent? one just has the structure within a single note (so single frontmater and meta data) while the other splits them up (and can have meta data for each level)

yeah I mean, in practice, what are the advantages :p

regarding searching for example

metadata, templates, everything is unified in file tree view, better search ability

are all advantages of using dot hierarchy notes

unified ?