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

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Post by kevinslin » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:17 AM UTC

phren0logy wrote: post #15

I'm currently using Obsidian, but was thinking of moving to LogSeq. I guess I should give this a look also. So many choices...

here's a page that outlines differences between obsidian and dendron: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/a84ff014-e871-445d-9366-d97f1a... also happy to answer any questions you might have about Dendron :)

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

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Post by scriptautomate » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:17 AM UTC

phren0logy wrote: post #15

I'm currently using Obsidian, but was thinking of moving to LogSeq. I guess I should give this a look also. So many choices...

This may be helpful, if wanting to know some differences in Obsidian vs. Dendron: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/a84ff014-e871-445d-9366-d97f1a...

For migrating content from Obsidian, you can use Dendron's markdown import pod (pods are ways that Dendron imports/exports notes):

Markdown import: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/f23a6290-2dec-45dc-b616-c218ee...

Obsidian style import: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/9kovmyM4T0ZBeWvp5oH62/

I still use Obsidian on mobile to view my Dendron notes, but use VS Code with the Dendron extension when on my computer :)

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

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Post by kevinslin » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:18 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #7

Gave this a try once but I remember that the performance on even relatively normal files was really bad. (Something like a few hundred urls as nested bullet points) which made me use Obsidian. Does anyone know if this is still an issue?

Sorry to hear about this. When did you last use Dendron? we've had lots of updates in terms of performance over the past few months so that shouldn't be the case today

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

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Post by scriptautomate » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:19 AM UTC

brnt wrote: post #8

Has anyone tried Dendron and Foam is willing to comment on the differences?

Foam vs. Dendron: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/p5fMTi-6zOyX1TwhL6dM0/

I've seen many in the Dendron community use the Markdown import pod to convert their notes over to Dendron: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/f23a6290-2dec-45dc-b616-c218ee...

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

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Post by kevinslin » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:20 AM UTC

josht wrote: post #32

Love the zettlekasten method! I gave dendron a shot a few months back, but it just didn't stick. Something about using my IDE as a note-taking tool got in the way of my flow. Currently using NotePlan 3 and really liking it.

Something we recommend for folks is to have different flavors of VSCode to side step this (eg. vscodium for dendron, vscode for code). That being said, if you found something you like, that's the most important thing :)

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

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Post by kevinslin » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

gouggoug wrote: post #36

I'd love to see one of these note taking apps providing Asciidoc support instead of Markdown. If you know one, please link it!

no asciidoc support but dendron's syntax is extended markdown and supports concepts like transclusions, diagrams, and other customizations. see https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/ba97866b-889f-4ac6-86e7-bb2d97...

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

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Post by kevinslin » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

brnt wrote: post #8

Has anyone tried Dendron and Foam is willing to comment on the differences?

Here is a comparison between dendron and foam -> https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/p5fMTi-6zOyX1TwhL6dM0.html

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

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Post by kevinslin » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:23 AM UTC

wolfblood wrote: post #2

Looks interesting. Will give it a try :)

founder here. let me know how it goes. if you're interested, we do personalized onboardings with new users as well, link to book is here -> https://calendly.com/d/mqtk-rf7q/onboard

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

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Post by AlexCoventry » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:23 AM UTC

slk500 wrote: post #21

emacs+org-mode

Every sufficiently advanced editor will eventually contain a buggy halfway implementation of emacs. :)

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

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Post by tconfrey » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:25 AM UTC

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.

I was rooting for Topic Maps at the time. The notion of Topics, Associations between them and Occurrences of information about a topic seemed to me to be very powerful. I don't think they were necessarily meant to model mind maps (altho no doubt you could), more of a super charged index of an information space.

FWIW Topic Maps were the inspiration for BrainTool [1], which is a 'Topic Manager' maybe in the same space as Dendron. I wrote about the model here [2]. I'm hoping people will exchange Topic Maps that index an information space or area of research!

[1] https://braintool.org

[2]https://braintool.org/2021/05/15/Organizing-your-life-with-a...