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Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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I've always wanted a better way to document and structure arguments/debates. Assertions can have supporting statements (as children), that can be further expanded and evaluated. This way, I can evaluate and discard branches, distilling an argument to what matters. Would a tool like this help me?

Like this? https://www.rationaleonline.com/

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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Just quickly watched this[1] video showing an intro to Dendron. I'm currently using tiddlywiki[2] so that's primarily what I'm comparing it too. Both tiddlywiki and dendron look very similar, supporting various forms of linking to one another. Dendron seems to have a more complete hierarchical way of combining pages, at least compared to the way that I use tiddlywiki. Tiddlywiki's advantage is the amount of plugins i…

> I'm guessing I would have to have some sort of Dropbox/Nextcloud system setup to sync notes between machines. I thought the point was to store the data, and distribute it in git or something.

ok, so even more of a pain to keep notes in sync now right? git push from the source, and then again a git pull from the destination.

And let's not think about if you accidentally forgot to sync your two repos, and now you have to deal with merge conflicts.

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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Hacker News loves their note taking apps. I've seen at least a dozen apps this year that have solved the exact same problem in just about the exact same ways. Am I the only one that still uses pen and paper? To me, there's a certain je ne sais quoi about closing my laptop and putting my phone away , grabbing a pen and my notebook, and brainstorming without technology.

I use good old windows notepad and save them on my desktop. I tried almost anything, rocketbook, asana, one note, pen and paper.

Simplest one was notepad and always worked for me.

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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post #9

Hacker News loves their note taking apps. I've seen at least a dozen apps this year that have solved the exact same problem in just about the exact same ways. Am I the only one that still uses pen and paper? To me, there's a certain je ne sais quoi about closing my laptop and putting my phone away , grabbing a pen and my notebook, and brainstorming without technology.

My coworker exclusively uses pen and paper, I don't know how she does it. I keep a little throw-away notepad around for brainstorming / diagramming, but nothing beats a keyboard & mouse for text manipulation.

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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This is really interesting for me. I've just got into roam the last few months after an intertest in trying zettelkasten (and my notion growing rather unwieldly), but the $15/m is grinding at me. The idea I'll be locked in at that price forever more doesn't sit well

For me org-roam doesn't scratch the portability itch (easily add notes on my phone etc), but I'm actively looking for alternatives I can make the jump for, and rely on it not disappearing in a few years

I really like the idea of this extension, but as mentioned I'm not sure this existing only in VSCode helps me much at this point.

Props for releasing though, great to see this revolution in note taking apps, and shifts in thought around the optimal way to take them.

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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post #2

I've always wanted a better way to document and structure arguments/debates. Assertions can have supporting statements (as children), that can be further expanded and evaluated. This way, I can evaluate and discard branches, distilling an argument to what matters. Would a tool like this help me?

Like this? https://www.rationaleonline.com/

Oh! That looks awesome! Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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On an semi-related topic, has anyone seen HTML+CSS (non-JS) versions of node relationship displays?

I'm working on a knowledge store and so many of the node/graph navigation tools are heavy JS libraries. I'd like to implement a pure HTML one for ultimate lightweight, but i've never seen one - so i'm struggling on inspiration.

Re: Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought

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This is really interesting for me. I've just got into roam the last few months after an intertest in trying zettelkasten (and my notion growing rather unwieldly), but the $15/m is grinding at me. The idea I'll be locked in at that price forever more doesn't sit well For me org-roam doesn't scratch the portability itch (easily add notes on my phone etc), but I'm actively looking for alternatives I can make the jump fo…

You might want to check out Dynalist. I've used it for project planning and idea dumps for a couple years and it's served perfectly for me. Saved my bacon with school notes as well. As for lock-in, their paid plan includes daily experts so even if the service vanished, all my notes are safe as markdown files.
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