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I tried out Dendron a few months ago for personal note-taking, technical docs, and organizing tasks. I was excited at first, but overall the cons outweighed the pros for me. Pros/exciting things: 1) There's a simplicity in using VS Code for writing notes and docs if (and probably only if) you already spend your day in VS Code, like I do. 2) The Markdown Preview Enhanced VS Code extension (which is a dependency of Den…
> Can’t access my notes from mobile On mobile (iPad anyway) try CodeSpaces: https://github.com/features/codespaces It’s VS Code in your browser tab, and works great. Separately, I don’t necessarily use that, since it’s an online experience. I use Working Copy and Textastic (or other local native editor depending). Benefit of git sync and markdown. A smattering of local editors do have both Markdown and mermaid suppor…
Zettlr [1] with some custom CSS changes [2] has been working wonders for me. 1 - https://www.zettlr.com/ 2 - https://gist.github.com/drcursor/8dd91f28bf5a58dd5f23f828d48...
It doesn't have any real outliner capabilities. Not that everyone wants an outliner, but you get it with org-mode.
It doesn't work like a wiki. In other words, if you link to a file that doesn't exist, it just says the file doesn't exist. It's kind of annoying to have to create those files manually and then reopen the document so you can add a link, even worse if you've linked to several notes you want to create.
I tried out Dendron a few months ago for personal note-taking, technical docs, and organizing tasks. I was excited at first, but overall the cons outweighed the pros for me. Pros/exciting things: 1) There's a simplicity in using VS Code for writing notes and docs if (and probably only if) you already spend your day in VS Code, like I do. 2) The Markdown Preview Enhanced VS Code extension (which is a dependency of Den…
Founder here. I started Dendron because I was frustrated with the lack of good note taking tools while working as a developer at AWS. I wanted something with the ease of notepad, the structure of evernote, and the speed of redis. Iterating over these features led me to Dendron and its been battle tested with my own collection of 30K+ notes
Zettlr [1] with some custom CSS changes [2] has been working wonders for me. 1 - https://www.zettlr.com/ 2 - https://gist.github.com/drcursor/8dd91f28bf5a58dd5f23f828d48...
Zettlr is great for some things. It has a couple downsides relative to something like org-mode: It doesn't have any real outliner capabilities. Not that everyone wants an outliner, but you get it with org-mode. It doesn't work like a wiki. In other words, if you link to a file that doesn't exist, it just says the file doesn't exist. It's kind of annoying to have to create those files manually and then reopen the docu…
I use org-roam extensively and create many many tiny files. Usually I start writing in daily note and simply link to the file. Then when I have something substantial I move to the linked file (automatically created when linking first time) and write stuff here. I get backlinks simultaneously so it is pretty easy to follow my chain of thoughts.
I have not seen it mentioned here a lot, but Joplin (another open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool) also has a vscode extension (to search and edit notes in code), in addition to desktop and mobile apps. Joplin is much simpler however (no linking between notes for example), depending on what you do that may be an advantage.
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I’m with you, tried it but couldn’t keep up. I didn’t commit to it for very long which isn’t a fair trial, but I just didn’t see it panning out. One thing I realized was that most of my notes were links to pages on the internet with maybe a few extra words as context, and the rest were chicken scratch step-by-step things I did setting up something nontrivially complex. For the links, now I just use bookmarks in Firef…
I found Zotero (academic reference software) with the browser plugin to be a simple and very effective way to file general information, web bookmarks, Arxiv papers, conference materials, PDF books, etc, etc. My basic workflow is: * Keep Zotero open, and navigate to one part of its collection (topic) hierarchy. * Click on the Zotero button in the browser, to save the current web page, PDF doc, paper in Semantic Schola…
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