Thank you! (maybe I should save the link into my daily journal haha)

TIL, you can sync a specific subdirectory only from an entire Git repo! - Instead of cloning an entire Git repo in, say,

Users/me/Documents

(and the disconnect between my Dendron workspace and the repo contents...) - I can instead clone one subdirectory from the repo (like

blog-posts/

!!) to my

Dendron/vault/blog-posts

directory! - Git Commands: -

git clone --depth 1 --sparse <your_git_repo_url>

-

cd <repo_name>

-

git sparse-checkout set <subdirectory_name

- Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52269934/5976033

(Tested with Azure DevOps repo)

TIL, Google Books has a tool called Ngram Viewer. Could be a very interesting tool for doing research. https://books.google.com/ngrams/

Example

And here are the docs:

TIL how to turn off the setting in VS Code that drives me NUTS! - When you click a file from VS Code File Explorer (or Dendron Worskpace), and the file does NOT open in a new VS Code tab, but instead opens in the current tab! - Set the

workbench.enable.enablePreview

option to unchecked. - Now each file you click will open a new VS Code tab

TIL how to export-to-pdf, presentations created by the [VSCode-Reveal](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=evilz.vscode-reveal) extension. - Apparently there is a bug in their export functionality. - Used

npm

to install [

decktape

](https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape) - *Example cli usage: * - Click

Open presentation in Browser

from the extension - Open terminal - From

dendron/vault/assets/pdfs

directory, run: -

decktape --pdf-author "<youir_name>" --pdf-title "<pdf_title>" reveal "http://localhost:<whatever_port#>" <pdf_filename>.pdf

TIL the most important thing you can do to make Dendron a part of your life...

CTRL+L

!!!! - I'm juuust getting to the point where I STOP looking for files in the VS Code File Explorer. - Its refreshing to CTRL+L and find (and also create) things!!

i find that i have to stop myself using

ctrl+l

when browsing regular code 😅

Good point! -

CTRL+L

for looking up "things" in your Dendron kb -

CTRL+P

for looking up "things" in your workspace (I think) -

CTRL+O

for looking up "things" outside your workspace but on your machine

Dendron OS

Seriously!

TIL a great way to show images in my Dendron files: USING HTML TABLES! - As looong as I can get them to render when exporting to PDF!! - In my setup, this looks great IN PREVIEW - BUT Images place into HTML Tables are NOT rendered hwen exporting to PDF Example:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td style="border: 5px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; padding:0px; border-color: #FAFAFA;"> 
            <img src=".\assets\images\test.png"/> 
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Looks really nice in Preview. Its super easy to show two (or more) images on the same span using this method too

Are you using pandoc for PDF exporting? Or what tooling?

Dendron Markdown Preview Enhanced

From Preview: Right click, Chrome (Puppeteer), PDF

Heres a thread on the topic https://discordapp.com/channels/717965437182410783/939556467093176411/939585547175858207

TIL that you can click the emoji reaction bubble to see who left which reactions:

took me a while to figure that out as well 😅

On the mobile app, you can long press the emoji icons.

very interesting - that's what I'm doing at the moment. have you found any videos of how people have done IJ in Dendron. do you use scratch notes?

So I follow what @User does, I use the concept of Buffer notes as a landing point for any raw unformatted thoughts or ideas. End of day I clear out all those ideas where they belong in the heirarchy. For interstitial journal, I use it in the daily journal note by using the 'time' code snippet

I don't suppose there are any recordings of those kinds of workflows in Dendron

Today, with the help of @User and @User , I learned that: 1. You can develop projects (code, etc) AND have your Dendron vault as a companion just by

File/Add Folder to Workspace

AND 2. YOU CAN TAG CODE to aid when searching!!

- (why didn't I think of that before!?)

🤯

if you haven't already, I would also check out our talk at vscode livestream where we introduce this feature:

i did a talk about my workflow here -> https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/fzHazEFWTpUVexmv.html

Listening now