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I think it would be really cool if there was a VS code extension where you could embed dot graphs in your .md file within a triple back tick block. Then when you hit the preview button, it automatically renders it. Something like this: https://markdownmonster.west-wind.com/docs/_5ef0x96or.htm But as a VS Code extension.
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Have you tried obsidian? It's directly working on the filesystem, including folders. No vendor lockin.
I did, and I sort of like and sort of dislike it because of the way it handles metadata. For me, this kind of note taking app ought to use folder names as topics or categories (dev/rust) and have an index.md (dev/rust/index.md) as an entry point, and some sub-documents/sub-sections in the same folder. Also, many of these tools only go half way: they have folder support but instead of a "bag of posts" you have to put…
I remember there is also a plugin which allows to use folder as notes, by loading a kind of index.md when opening the folder.
But what do you mean with "bag of media" folder?
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A big part of my note-taking is just to get stuff out of my brain. I might never revisit any of it, and that's fine. If I write it down I know I can always go back when I need to, but if I don't , it's going to be an annoying distraction in my subconscious. A lot of my note-taking therefore becomes an excuse to successfully ignore the things I know I don't need to pay attention to. I do have a bunch of notes that I u…
That first paragraph is exactly my experience, too. When I read "Getting Things Done", the lightning bolt that struck me was learning that simply getting stuff out of my head and into a trusted system is enough to let me stop obsessing about it and concentrate on other things. Last week I had one of those dreaming-about-writing-code sort of nights, where I half woke up and was thinking about the stuff I'd been dreami…
- Onenote for ideas and scribbles - zotero for bookmarks and documents. Supports tags - physical notebook for note taking during meetings
btw you can easily connect zotero to your own nas via webdav and you have unlimited storage. Works fine for me. The only drawback of zotero is that you dont have a native mobile client.
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…
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Some additional details on the cons: - 1) Mobile support. We don't have a mobile app but you can access it on mobile using tools like GitJournal or IaWriter. Admitted this is not ideal but we do plan on a native mobile solution later this year. See FAQ here: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def... - 2) As for navigating notes, this depends on your style. If you…
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Some additional details on the cons: - 1) Mobile support. We don't have a mobile app but you can access it on mobile using tools like GitJournal or IaWriter. Admitted this is not ideal but we do plan on a native mobile solution later this year. See FAQ here: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def... - 2) As for navigating notes, this depends on your style. If you…
I think your tool might be helpful for documenting requirements, for teams that have not adopted something like BDD. And maybe for mapping the requirements to tests and source code. Have you seen examples of this?
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’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…
* 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 Scholar etc into the currently selected place in the Zotero hierarchy.
* Zotero saves all the metadata about the object.
In parallel, I keep project specific markdown files in the folder I create for every project.
I tried Roam-like hyperlinked Markdown files for a couple of months, but found I kept wanting to keep them alongside other project-specific files.
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…
Keep your markdown notes in one location, backed by git. Pull on any device for any reason. Use GitHub's / Dropbox's web interface when required.
- Search with grep
- Structured text + grep is extremely powerful
- use vim / emacs customization for display
- Display anything using, say dot or graphviz
- Edit with VSCode if you like vscode. Anything else otherwise.
I'm always surprised how few solutions manage to reach this basic level of functionality. Not that Dendron doesn't do a fine job!
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…
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 support.
Rest of your feedback, I agree with.