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Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by beebeepka »

gorgabal wrote: post #22
beebeepka wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What elevates this specific vscode extension beyond my description? You personally knowing some of the people behind the project?

Parent comment didn't say anything about this extension. He just asserted that PKM is an already in-use term.

Which was a response to me talking about this specific extension.

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by bsenftner »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #9

I was once involved in Topic Maps, a failed ISO standard that was challenged Semantic Web at some point. One thing I remember is the tacit knowledge that all kinds of mind maps are useful on the spot to the person who writes them. Communicating anything via mind maps is difficult, and they become unintelligible even to authors very quickly.

Reminds me of the Apple spin-out name Kalida (sp?) that tried to promote a "personalized programming language" called ScriptX allowing each developer to define their own personal language syntax and write code in that. I was floored something so dumb would get a complete corporate spin-out, developers and the full rah-rah marketing push. Once developed and available, people quickly found nobody could share or even read one another's code. Duh.

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by jonp888 »

beebeepka wrote: post #14
Blahah wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PKM is the standard term for a whole diverse field of tools and techniques. Belittling it as "entering text" is pompous.

What elevates this specific vscode extension beyond my description? You personally knowing some of the people behind the project?

A large number of applications, some of them extremely complex, could be summarised as "entering text". It's generally more important what happens to the text after it has been entered. In this case:

- Hyperlinking between documents and sections of documents(without needing to use a full relative/absolute path)

- Visualisation of the relationships between documens

- A metadata schema for documents(title, summary, tags, etc.)

- A search engine which indexes the content and metadata

- Embedding of various content types(other notes, diagrams, images)

- Conversion into other document formats

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by Blahah »

beebeepka wrote: post #14
Blahah wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PKM is the standard term for a whole diverse field of tools and techniques. Belittling it as "entering text" is pompous.

What elevates this specific vscode extension beyond my description? You personally knowing some of the people behind the project?

See jonp888's reply for the first question. As to the second, I have no idea who's behind the project.

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by sorokod »

beebeepka wrote: post #10

Say I wanted to beat these guys at their game. How do I come up with a description more pompous than "personal knowledge management" to describe entering text. Fascinating stuff

How about: personal "personal knowledge management" management ?

Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code

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Post by IAmEveryone »

bberenberg wrote: post #23

Is there an app this where the editor is WYSIWYG but the storage format is Markdown? Almost like Confluence from a UI perspective but for a personal KB?

I've configured VSCode for this purpose. You can set a proportional font, at which point you are already halfway there. The default syntax highlighting already assigns scopes for headlines, bold/underline/italics, lists, code blocks and links, and it is either easy or default to style the text accordingly.
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