@User i don't know YAML at all and i'm curious about what all I can define as variables when creating schema. Is there a good resource? I saw the onboarding video where you go into a bit, but I'd like to get a better handle on it. Or can i just define whatever I want and go wild?

so dendron schemas follow a specific format which is documented here: https://dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75cbb1052.html the raw YAML can be a bit intimidating which is why we're also working on a graphical drag and drop interface as part of the quality of live improvements in october https://dendron.so/notes/c4cb56af-ec13-4e57-aede-eb341e870736.html

thanks!

Is there anyway to get the enhanced markdown preview to also be in dark mode?

@User Add this line in your

settings.json

"markdown-preview-enhanced.previewTheme": "github-dark.css"

there is a variety of themes to choose, it'll prompt the suggestions when typing

it's available through settings UI as well, look for "Markdown-preview-enhanced: Preview Theme" in settings

Oh beautiful. I didn't realize it was that plugin. Thanks peeps.

looks great

@kevins8 you've done test about what happens when you initialize more than 2000

.md

files in your dendron workspace ?

the same folder for all files approach can optimize the search but I don't know about vscode performance

@User this really depends on how much frontmatter/metadata you have in your notes. initialization time depends on how long it takes us to parse your notes + metadata. my primary workspace has about ~5000 notes. initialization takes about ~20s which is not great but i generally leave my workspace running for the week. we are adding a cache in october that will make initialization near instantaneous. having all files in one folder or multiple folders doesn't affect vscode performance as far as I can tell.

More of a general question for folks, but what default keybindings do you keep and what do you change? I've jettisoned the

cmd-shift-{left,right,up,down}

since they conflict with my muscle memory for "select to end of line" on MacOS. Even in vim-mode, when I am in insert mode I find this far easier than going back to normal mode. But I haven't settled on any replacements yet. For reference, the motion and selection commands "Document Shortcuts" on https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 are the ones that I have a hard time remapping to anything else.

For context, i am on W10. I have also removed those keybindings

ctrl-shift-{direction}

, as it is used in vanilla vscode for almost the same reason. I've also changed generating scratch (i think windows uses `ctrl-shift-s`for screenshot snippets) Except for those, i havent touched anything

> didn't realize the

ctrl-shift

keybindings overlapped. will be updating the defaults in the next release for those particular commands

Hi ! I would like to add a bibliography: key with a custom default value to all my dendron notes

how can I do this ?

@User would this be in the frontmatter of the note or in the markdown?

in the frontmatter

this allows to take advantage of pandoc and display a bibliography in the previewed markdown

hwever for now I have to fix it manually

I thought it could be set in the shema yaml file but pandoc doesn't find the bibliography this way

got it. currently, we don't have a builtin way of doing this but i'm planning on adding a

refactor frontmatter

command that will let users change/backfill fm props on dendron notes. also, we have a schema update to define custom frontmatter for notes that match a schema. the combination of the above two changes should fill out your use cases (if not, let me know) can you give us a feature request so i can link new/existing tickets to it? https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=feature_request.md&title=

@User sorry I did not understand when you say "also, we have a schema update to define custom frontmatter for notes that match a schema. " Is this existing ?

or to be implemented ?

to be implemented. both changes should land sometime in october!

OK

so Ill fill the feature request for the record

and to keep track