oh yeah, we did 😓 our activation logic was actually a little more convoluted then that before, now we just check for

dendron.code-workspace

file to be present. i'll update it to be case insensitive! for activating dendron without workspace, it makes sense especially since dendron can be launched separately as a standalone server. there's still a fair bit of work involved to make that work smoothly but feel free to kick it off by submitting a feature request 🙂