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Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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obsidian is a great app and they have an excellent mobile client. if you ever want to explore the structural components of Dendron while using Obsidian, you can as we interop on most features

this is a hallmark of good software, and a breath of fresh air to see, given the amount of proprietary lock-in in software today.

thanks! we try to be both compatible and open about everything we do. more details on that in our handbook -> https://handbook.dendron.so/

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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VSCode also supports WYSIWYG using either webviews or their custom editor API. that's actually something we're looking to implement soon!

Do you mean editing in one window and seeing the result in another? With TeXmacs, you edit in one WYSIWYG window.

that is how Dendron currently works. But VSCode supports WYSIWYG functioanlity inline. You can see an example of it here: https://github.com/tejasvi/markless we're planning on implementing something similar soon!

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

#53

Yey another note taking app! And YC no less! Not at all like previous YC-backed note taking app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565629 Or any note taking app ever.. Seriously, is that the biggest thing bothering developers? Is this what you got into computing for? The best use for your AWS experience? The digital equivalent of making an ashtray in pottery class.

“Developers should work with notes the same way they work with code.” Ok, so just put your notes in a git repo, and edit them in an IDE.

But there's more than just revision control, no? Compilers, linters, intellisence.

I don't know what is to notes as compilers are to code, but certainly note taking could stand to use more tooling.

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

#55

The scrolljacking on your site makes it nearly impossible to read. Please ask your web team to find a native scroll friendly solution.

Could you elaborate? You mean how animations are tied to scrollevents? (our web team might be influenced by the apple landing page...)

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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post #53

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“Developers should work with notes the same way they work with code.” Ok, so just put your notes in a git repo, and edit them in an IDE.

But there's more than just revision control, no? Compilers, linters, intellisence. I don't know what is to notes as compilers are to code, but certainly note taking could stand to use more tooling.

Yep. Developer tooling has been making massive strides over the last six decades, all focused on the problem of making information (aka code) easier to manage. Dendron builds on top of this and applies it notes.

In terms of the compiler analogy to notes, in Dendron, this is the schema (aka type) system we use to help users define the structure of their notes: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75c...

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

#58

The scrolljacking on your site makes it nearly impossible to read. Please ask your web team to find a native scroll friendly solution.

Could you elaborate? You mean how animations are tied to scrollevents? (our web team might be influenced by the apple landing page...)

It's style over function. With Apple, everyone already knows what it does. I would concentrate on explaining what it does.

You're targeting devs, we hate this stuff :). What I like is markdown based, VSCode based, open source, alternative to Confluence for tech teams. Make that clear.

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Could you elaborate? You mean how animations are tied to scrollevents? (our web team might be influenced by the apple landing page...)

It's style over function. With Apple, everyone already knows what it does. I would concentrate on explaining what it does. You're targeting devs, we hate this stuff :). What I like is markdown based, VSCode based, open source, alternative to Confluence for tech teams. Make that clear.

Got it. Yeah this was something that was subject to internal soul searching. The landing page for Dendron was our wiki for the majority of its existence -> https://wiki.dendron.so/ We hired a design firm to make it pop but then went too far in the other direction. When we have cycles, we'll take another stab at finding a happy medium.

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

#60
Congrats on the launch!

I've been using Foam [1] for the last year, which is an open-source vscode-powered aternative to obsidian. There seems to be a large overlap in features. What benefits does Dendron have over Foam that would convince me to switch?

[1] https://github.com/foambubble/foam/

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