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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 jimmySixDOF »

qudat wrote: post #41

I’ve compiled a list of other knowledge management apps for the curious: https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps

There is a Second Brain PIM/PKMS graph based app released in public beta now called rea.ch

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

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Post by haberman »

Every time I see a new note taking app, I get excited that it might finally be the one that will satisfy my desired workflow. But every time I end up disappointed that nobody seems to think about this space in the way that I do.

Here is my basic premise: I want all of my notes to be dated, and I want them to tell a story of not just what I was thinking, but when.

Time is so fundamental to note taking. A note is never "This is my canonical position on X", it is always "this is what I am thinking about X today." But note taking apps rarely seem to bring time to the forefront.

Think about an issue tracker like GitHub issues. When you view an issue, you see a timestamped history of everything that has been added to the conversation and when. It tells a story of how the understanding of that issue evolved over time, and specific actions that were taken at specific times. I find this invaluable, and I want my own personal notes to work in the same way.

"So just use GitHub issues in a private repo." Well, GitHub issues isn't exactly what I'm looking for. Specifically:

- I want to use #tagging. If I click on a tag, I want a GitHub issues-like timeline view for all notes that include that tag. That way I can categorize notes across multiple dimensions.

- I want more control over how the notes are stored (Git is ideal, I can mirror the repo wherever I want).

- I want more control over how and when I publish the notes: if I'm taking work-specific notes, I want the option to publish them on an internal company server.

A Jekyll-based blog fulfills these criteria pretty well, except:

- Jekyll is primarily focused on publishing a website, not local viewing. To view locally you have to manually run a server in the background all the time ("jekyll serve") and there is a lot of HTML/CSS/configuration cruft that is overkill for note taking.

- Since Jekyll is not an app, it has no streamlined workflow for adding notes on mobile.

If anyone knows an app that is a good match for what I'm looking for, please let me know!

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

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Post by kushan2020 »

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?

You can try out https://bangle.io, it is a real WYSIWYG Markdown * based note taking app that is local and open source.

* By real I mean that the UI stays WYSIWYG, unlike other apps that fall back to Markdown notation while editing.

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

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Post by d12bb »

haberman wrote: post #92

Every time I see a new note taking app, I get excited that it might finally be the one that will satisfy my desired workflow. But every time I end up disappointed that nobody seems to think about this space in the way that I do. Here is my basic premise: I want all of my notes to be dated, and I want them to tell a story of not just what I was thinking, but when . Time is so fundamental to note taking. A note is neve…

If you live in the Apple ecosystem, Agenda(1) could be just the right tool for you. I also very much like their pricing schema(2), more apps should do it like this!

1. https://www.agenda.com/

2. https://drewmccormack.medium.com/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda...

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

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Post by codemusings »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #67
jlkuester7 wrote: post #16

I really wanted to like this the last time I gave it a try, but it just did not do it for me. I though I would like it being a VS Code plugin since "why reinvent a .md editor", but the end result felt pretty janky. Plenty of power features, but they were not particularly intuitive to use.... I ended up finding https://logseq.com/ and have been very happy using that as a local application! I really like its balance of…

I'm strongly considering moving away from Obsidian to Logseq, obsidian just has some limitations that I think I can work around in Logseq (insufficient syntax highlighting due to old integrated version of prismjs being one issue for ex). I have sincere doubts that Obsidian will ever go open source.

I've started to use Joplin[1] and haven't looked back. It's open source and their business model is hosted cloud syncing. I already have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance running and WebDAV is supported for syncing as well so I'm not paying anything at the moment.

They also have apps on desktop and mobile. The apps may not have the most polished UI but they work extremely well.

[1] https://joplinapp.org/

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

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Post by rcarmo »

d12bb wrote: post #97
haberman wrote: post #92

Every time I see a new note taking app, I get excited that it might finally be the one that will satisfy my desired workflow. But every time I end up disappointed that nobody seems to think about this space in the way that I do. Here is my basic premise: I want all of my notes to be dated, and I want them to tell a story of not just what I was thinking, but when . Time is so fundamental to note taking. A note is neve…

If you live in the Apple ecosystem, Agenda(1) could be just the right tool for you. I also very much like their pricing schema(2), more apps should do it like this! 1. https://www.agenda.com/ 2. https://drewmccormack.medium.com/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda...

Agenda is pretty awesome, but I worry about getting my data out of it enough that it’s become a no-go for me.

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

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Post by rcarmo »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #27
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?

The latest Obsidian release has a WYSIWYG editor mode that's quite good in my experience. It stores everything in plain old markdown files and has a ton of plugins for extra stuff like backlinks, etc.

It works really poorly on mobile for me. Completely a no-go.
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