Hi all, I apologise if this is a bad place to start, but I'm trying to find someone to talk with about switching my note taking from my current hodgepodge of local markdown and ikiwiki-based journals, to Dendron, but I'm struggling with the mechanisms of multi-vault, particularly when it comes to managing publishing because I have four distinct security domains which I need to consider, but I really like the idea of having dendron able to link between them (assuming I'm sensible and only link from more-constrained to less-constrained)

Hi kinnison! This is the right place to ask. You can definitely have this setup with Dendron, but it will take a bit of work to get started. (We are working on simplifying the process for multi-vault setups, but that work is not done yet). The non-published ones are relatively easy. How I would recommend doing it is: 1. On your work computer, initialize a Dendron workspace. This gets you a local vault, which will be your private work vault. 2. Create another local vault with the "Vault Add" command, then select local. This will be your personal private vault. 3. Create a git repository for the personal private vault, then use the "Vault Convert" command on your personal private vault to put it on git. Then, on your home computer, you can initialize a Dendron workspace, use "Vault Add" then pick "remote", and paste the git clone URL to add your personal private vault. Now your personal notes are available both at home and at work, and your work notes stay on your work computer.

OK, so far I'm following along, though I do still want all my notes (private or otherwise) to be in git repos. I firmly believe that if something isn't in git and pushed, I will lose it 😄

Great! You can absolutely convert both vaults then, I just wasn't sure if you absolutely had to keep notes locally.

Naah, I have private git services available for all cases 😄

You can handle the workspace configuration however you want. You can put it into a repository on its own, or you can just keep it locally. (It's also possible to skip converting the vaults, and add the whole workspace with the local vaults into a repository.)

That would be great, because I wouldn't want my personal-published stuff to end up on the work site, I'd want it to link to my personal site

So right now our support for that is not great, if you publish each vault into a different website then the links across vaults won't actually work. That will be improved as part of our upcoming changes, but of course that doesn't help you right now!

Yeah "not great for now, fixed _soon_" (for some value of soon) is plausible for me

soon as in within a month or two, I'm actively working on it 🙂

Oh cool 😄 That's very nearby then, nice.

You can also get around it right now by linking to the actual page with regular markdown links, like

[text](https://your.personal.notes/note/id/)

, but it is a bit cumbersome.

Short-term I wouldn't be thoroughly sad if I pointed colleagues at a copy of the personal stuff at work - heck it'll take me months most likely to port the data across nicely; since I really want to think hard about heirarchy etc.

Got it! Let me also link to some resources that might help you on your way: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg/ https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/66727a39-d0a7-449b-a10d-f6c438185d7f/ https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/6682fca0-65ed-402c-8634-94cd51463cc4/ https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/24b176f1-685d-44e1-a1b0-1704b1a92ca0/

Hmm, the Vaults one mentions remote workspaces

currently, you can only independently publish if you create 4 separate workspaces since the publishing config is tied to the workspace config. we are planning on splitting it out so that each vault can have a different publishing config

Right, I'm happy to wait for the nicer solution 😄