Show HN: Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode

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

This looks really cool! I'm going to give it a try. I always lose my notes. My workaround is a personal Discord server, to post notes to myself, which is nice to have a mobile app where I can share links to on mobile I want to save for later, but the different channels doesn't really provide enough structure to the notes, plus searching is not great in discord.

Do you have like a hack to post notes to and from mobile?

Would love to see a feature comparison between Dendron and Obsidian.md if anyone has experience with both.

How are people using tools like this and Roam, Obesdian, etc. etc. etc?

Personally I could see the use if you were writing a book or something, but I feel like in practice for normal notes I would just have all of these notes that I'd never look at again or spend so much time traversing my notes and not getting things done. As someone with distractive tendencies I'd love to hear the situations where this is useful so I stay on track.

I hear the term "second brain" used a lot. The thing is with your brain, you don't actively spend time searching and traversing your "notes" consciously. Generally your mind brings things to be recalled just as you need it. Is there something like that?

We have so many roam-alikes but so very few with web publishing as a first-class citizen and the ones that do have it paywalled (Roam, Obsidian) or don't support org-mode (Neuron v2 though there's plans to reintroduce), which just blows Markdown out of the water.