getting an error

error while running command: Command failed with ENOENT: git rm --cached -r --ignore-unmatch -- dependencies/localhost/journals spawn git rm ENOENT

when trying to convert a local vault to remote -- i'm linking it to a bare repo, i'm assuming that's what you're supposed to do?

How can I set the Backlinks panel to be 'Expand All' by default?

Right now, every time I go to a different note, the Backlinks panel is 'Collapse All' and I need to click on 'Expand All' to actually see the location of the backlinks within a note. This is super annoying.

With regards to publishing a site - how do you remove the dendron symbol the web tab? Is it possible to customize this symbol to something of your own?

So having a bit of an issue getting my favicon to properly show up my my published pages. The site Logo appears correctly but the favicon does not. Am i doing something wrong? Below is my config:

yaml
publishing:
    siteFaviconPath: notes/assets/images/fav.ico
    logoPath: notes/assets/images/fllogo.png

I have the images in the folders and named properly.

Hi, I'm new to Dendron. May be someone can give me some advice on the following: - I would like to port my documentation website (https://vse-docs.readthedocs.io/ ) to Dendron. The source files are in Sphinx Restructured Text (RTS) format ( https://github.com/blendoc/vse-docs): in total about 300 notes/pages/files and 250 images. Is there an easy way to do that? - How do you handle the images. Is it a good idea to name them according to the note they belong to; e.g. a note with the name vse.workspace can contain two images named vse.workspace.image1 and vse.workspace.image2?

Hi. I don’t have answers for your questions. But Im curious to learn why u want to switch to publishing with Dendron? Skimming at your current docs, it looks beautiful, with correct layout on mobile, the search modal works great on mobile view, the hamburger menu button to display left sidebar works perfectly, and the 2 navigation buttons at the bottom to move back/forward between post which is awesome. You can’t replicate these great features with the current state of Dendron publishing (biased by my own experience)

Hi, Good question, indeed. Sphinx RTS is a powerful tool and many great docs are created with it (e.g. Blender, Python, ...). However, after creating a fair amount of pages, it feels a bit too rigid for me. The structure and layout of the docs cannot be easily changed. For example, if I want to describe a new feature, I have to think hard where to put it in the hierarchy. And most of the time, it is not to my liking but out of fear to change anything, I will place it at a wrong location. The software is also rather 'technically' oriented (for example incorporating code) but other very basic (more creative) things such as coloring text, inserting video's, adding charts, ... are difficult (but maybe that's because of my sub-par knowledge of it). I have tried to port it to other software, for example a static website with Hugo. But, with the same problem: once the structure is fixed, you'd better not touch it. My hope with Dendron is to reconciliate my two main goals: a rather hierarchical site (which is per definition for docs) but with the possibility to change more easily afterwards. But maybe, I should reconsider. The grass seems always greener at the other side.

aha. If you r looking for flexibility in refactoring hierarchy, Dendron might be the holy grail here. I tried ssr like docuraurus and mkdocs. Both have the flaw that you clearly stated: it's not intuitively easy to change the structure of notes. But their publishing aspect is much better than the current state of Dendron 😄 Thanks for your insight

Is there a way similar to refreshing the index to force refresh backlinks? I had numerous nodes I have been working on say no back links and yet the node was created through one of those back links.

Same here but refreshing the index solved it for me

How to create a note everytime I make a link?

Btw... when I hover over a link - there's no rich preview? What's up?

No preivew + no hierarchy view?

Hi, I would like to name the images that belong to a page with the same name. For example, the page vse.audio contains 2 images: vse.audio1.png and vse.audio2.png. Is it possible when using the Dendron Refactor to change the name and links to these images as well. Suppose, I want to refactor the name vse.audio >> blender.vse.audio. The images should also be renamed vse.audio1.png >> blender.vse.audio1.png and the shortcode  >> [](/assets/images/blender.vse.audio1.png). Is that possible?

Unless I am missing something this is not supported. There are a few issues on GitHub that are relevant, the convention is to upvote them by using 👍🏽 there. Here is one: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/1450

Thanks. I gave a thumbs-up. It fits very well with the philosophy of Dendron. Let's hope it gets realized.

Yeah, definitely take a look at the comments in that issue. The Dendron wiki docs approaches it like this at the moment: - An image either gets added to your

notes/assets/

or is an external image you want embedded in your docs but don't want to re-enter a URL embedding across multiple locations potentially - A note is created in a dedicated hierarchy to media notes (ex.

asset.preview.md

) - Headers within the note are used as image placeholders to be added to notes as note refs throughout docs. This mean you can rename the header with refactoring commands (or the child note, depending on organizational approach), and note refs will update appropriately. This also helps avoid naming images based on their note location, only to find yourself using them in more than one note, and then can use refactoring commands or backlinks to know where things are used or ensure they are updated easily Comment with some details on this, in case it helps as an approach at the moment: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/1450#issuecomment-1002360074

When I am navigating through the tree, opening a note and then renaming it, it closes the whole tree and i need to reopen it back to where it was. I want to rename several notes, but the tree closing after renaming a file is putting a small barrier to it. Is there a way to let the tree be open at the position?

Thanks Jack! fzf was a revelation. Where is the 'ctrl-l' binding defined? Is it part of fzf?

I wrapped the script in a function in my zshrc (see below) so I can call it from the shell with ctrl-o. Maybe I should have just made the script a shell function:

zsh
lookup-note() {
    lookup
    zle reset-prompt
  # see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9212508/how-to-redraw-the-zsh-prompt-after-widget-action
}
zle -N lookup-note
bindkey -v '^o' lookup-note

didn't use

ctrl-l

since that's already generally used for clearing the screen

Man, I need to do a little more dedicated research in to scripting, so useful.

@benhsm | Jack of N trades I have another question for you that I've been unable to find an answer to: what is the advantage to using dotted files over folders? Before I sink thousands of notes into either Dendron's dotted framework or a traditional folder hierarchy, I'd like to make the best decision for me. The best I've been able to find for this so far are: - From the hierarchical notes blog post: “But I didn't want folders. Folders were messy and besides, weren't supported in notational velocity, my primary note-taking tool at the time. So instead of folders, I decided to create a hierarchy using the . symbol as my delimiter.” (https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/3dd58f62-fee5-4f93-b9f1-b0f0f59a9b64/) - From a Hacker News thread: "the dotted namespace has been a back and forth in our community. some people love it, some people not so much.” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26494441) - From a search of "folders" here on the Discord: "Sometimes too many folders can cause confusion” (https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/717965437182410786/745121113440518194) All I've been able to find are assertions that folders are not great for well-structured, quick-access, RAM-like notes, but I can't really find any detail into why.

one thing that's worth noting is that with the markdown pod, conversion to or from a dot delimited hierarchy and a nested folder hierarchy is pretty trivial (with some setup), so I don't think you have to be worried about technical debt after "sinking thousands of notes" into either

this is one of the things I love about Dendron, which comes from things like pods and hierarchy refactoring - you can experiment with things and change structure and format with minimal accumulation of technical debt

When it comes to advantages, for one thing, when it comes to operating programmatically, working with a bunch of files in a single directory is just easier

I know you like command-line interfaces - globbing and lots of different unixy operations work very well with dot-delimited hierarchies

many things which are manageable, but less convenient with folder hierarchies

I see! In honesty, I am just starting to seriously explore the cli as an everyday tool, so I'm not super familiar with its strengths and weaknesses yet