I’ve compiled a list of other knowledge management apps for the curious: https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps
Here's another you might like: https://www.zettlr.com/
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
#82I really wanted to like Dendron, but dealing with tables in markdown is a bit of a headache.
Also, I wanted a way to just show the markdown preview without also showing the source view.
The author has mentioned a planned WYSIWYG feature, so maybe that will solve these issues.
I wish zim had a proper Mac app!
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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, tag…
Thanks. I stand corrected
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#84Why not use something like notion or Evernote and be done with it.
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#85These Electron solutions (VSC plugins, Obsidian, whatever) become really slow when you have a large document with markdown, code and latex in it.
I recommend learning Emacs org-mode. Painful, but eventually faster.
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#86I’ve compiled a list of other knowledge management apps for the curious: https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps
zettlr is also missing - opensource and really nice (also goog for zettelkasten)
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#87Why not use something like notion or Evernote and be done with it.
That's where I am these days. I've tried all these .md based knowledge vaults and avoided Notion like the plague. I was really stuck on Obsidian... until one night taking notes on something I had to make a bunch of tables. Creating tables with pure .md is just obnoxious. So I decided to take a look at Notion based on the recommendation of another dev. Been using it for 3 weeks now and I have to say, it serves my needs, is super smooth/intuitive, and actually nice to work in.
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#88These Electron solutions (VSC plugins, Obsidian, whatever) become really slow when you have a large document with markdown, code and latex in it. I recommend learning Emacs org-mode. Painful, but eventually faster.
I second org-mode. I've tried literally dozens of notes apps, but org-mode just gets everything right.
Well, almost everything. If I have to edit in a simple text editor then I still prefer Markdown and of course syncing files is up to the user (I use a private Gitlab account). Hebrew text that spans a newline is also problematic in Emacs, despite ostensibly fully supporting Unicode. But these limitations are trivial compared to all the issues I've identified in all the newer apps. It turns out that two decades of development really does lead to a mature product.
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#89I really wanted to like Dendron, but dealing with tables in markdown is a bit of a headache. Also, I wanted a way to just show the markdown preview without also showing the source view. The author has mentioned a planned WYSIWYG feature, so maybe that will solve these issues. I wish zim had a proper Mac app!
I used to love Zim, it was almost feature perfect in my opinion. But if you're using it to store notes with code, check first to see if the formatting feature can be disabled, because that changes the stored note text. I had to stop using Zim due to that, though it was years and years ago so maybe this has been resolved since. Other than that show-stopper, it was a great app and it had a great developer.
Re: Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code
#90This has been a Show HN/Launch HN before: (Launch) Nov 2021, 85 Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158 (Show) Mar 2021, 84 Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26491764 (Show) Oct 2020, 168 Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24898373
I think one reason Dendron (and generally PKM topics) resonates on HN is because fundamentally, we haven't figured out "information architecture for humans" Google works for the internet but we don't have an equivalent for PKM or TKM (team knowledge management). This is why we build Dendron (more details at https://blog.dendron.so/notes/N9VxT7G5SovmncezBAGO2.html )
I would complement your knowledge management platform with a passive way to reference previous content. Save every paragraph of text that is being read/written and implement semantic similarity search. For example you could use a Hugging Face model and an Approximate Nearest Neighbor index.
Then integrate this search with an extension on top of your regular search engine, such as Google. Bonus if it logs across all apps, not just the web browser, and if it implements semantic and source based blacklisting to control what is being logged, for privacy.
This is complementary to your approach because manual logging is hard and slow while passive logging + semantic search can follow everything. It will be like an external memory.