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Not sure if the current version already allows that - but this is a common flaw with most Markdown note-taking software (I have around 8000 posts/notes spanning 16 years of hierarchies, some time-based and some context-based).
This get's posted to HN fairly frequently, always as a new Show HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dendron.so Each time, it catches my interest, I try it out, and I cannot make it work for me. It looks really fantastic with a lot of documentation, but learning curve, preview, conflicting with existing vscode plugins, etc; I'll likely continue to try it out, because the marketing and documentation looks so good. Having spe…
I really like these in depth, detailed note taking strategies/tools, but I've come to just using markdown files with good naming. Even then, I'm getting annoyed with myself splitting up class days into separate files. I think I may even just go back to plain text. I use markdown because it looks great when rendered to HTML, but I've only ever used my rendered notes once in three years. I always just grep them or vim…
And for the most part, I don't use HTML rendering but Dendron gives you easy ways of creating notes from links, creating relative links to files, and pasting images into your markdown.
Zettlr [1] with some custom CSS changes [2] has been working wonders for me. 1 - https://www.zettlr.com/ 2 - https://gist.github.com/drcursor/8dd91f28bf5a58dd5f23f828d48...
I tried Dendron once and was put off by the dotted namespacing (foo.bar.note.md). Would be a lot simpler if I could just use folders instead (much less clutter, and I'd be OK with specifying the folder name in links). Not sure if the current version already allows that - but this is a common flaw with most Markdown note-taking software (I have around 8000 posts/notes spanning 16 years of hierarchies, some time-based…
we're still using the dotted namespacing but we've also introduced the ability to export your notes to plain markdown (it inlines dendron specific markdown like note references to regular markdown). if you have folder based markdown, you can import them to dendron's format using our markdown importer and then export them to the same format as well (this is coming soon)
I tried Dendron once and was put off by the dotted namespacing (foo.bar.note.md). Would be a lot simpler if I could just use folders instead (much less clutter, and I'd be OK with specifying the folder name in links). Not sure if the current version already allows that - but this is a common flaw with most Markdown note-taking software (I have around 8000 posts/notes spanning 16 years of hierarchies, some time-based…
My biggest gripe with note taking apps is that basically all of the ones I've seen take the IDE approach. They are not as much note taking apps as specialized document editors. Because of this I'm still stuck with Tomboy which is very far from ideal but at least it's quick and easy to start typing a new note . (Unfortunately it doesn't support markdown, only starting bullet points with typing a *, it does support wik…
How are people using tools like this and Roam, Obesdian, etc. etc. etc? Personally I could see the use if you were writing a book or something, but I feel like in practice for normal notes I would just have all of these notes that I'd never look at again or spend so much time traversing my notes and not getting things done. As someone with distractive tendencies I'd love to hear the situations where this is useful so…
How are people using tools like this and Roam, Obesdian, etc. etc. etc? Personally I could see the use if you were writing a book or something, but I feel like in practice for normal notes I would just have all of these notes that I'd never look at again or spend so much time traversing my notes and not getting things done. As someone with distractive tendencies I'd love to hear the situations where this is useful so…
I like it because it's a wrapper around a folder of markdown files. I really my notes being just a folder of markdown files, so that's the selling point of Obsidian to me. I can open my notes in VSCode just as well as Obsidian, if I'm editing. Obsidian gives me some nice functionality (backlinks, hotkeys for different notes formats mostly, and just being a separate application from VSCode), but it could disappear tomorrow and VSCode would take over as my notes.
I setup a cron job to `git add .`, `git commit`, and `git push` every day, so I have my notes in a github repo that I can pull down if I ever need to switch devices. Or if I just want to look at my notes from a device, I can just browse the Github repo.
I use it for two different things:
- a daily log of my work for the day, including notes of what I did, and where each branch left off. All of my "four little things to finish this jira ticket" end up in the daily log. - notes on various personal projects. For example, if I am looking for a contractor to prune a tree I create a note for that. I put in all the contractors I'm contacting, their bids, etc, into the note.
> The thing is with your brain, you don't actively spend time searching and traversing your "notes" consciously. Generally your mind brings things to be recalled just as you need it.
Maybe your mind does! My mind will often come back with: "there were _definitely_ 5 little todos that you needed to do to finish the branch, and I have 3 of them here ready for you. Maybe do a `git diff` to try and remember the other 2?", or "Hey, I was looking for a contractor to prune the tree. I called three of them, I think. Maybe four. Who knows. A couple sent in bids, but I don't remember which ones. Let's check gmail and see if we can find any there?".
So, personally my use of notes isn't to stop my brain trying to _come up_ with a task to complete. My notes are basically an index for when I want to resolve a task, to all the information I need to pick it up again. Or, alternatively viewed, it's the context when I put a task down, to help resume the task when I context switch back to it.
How are people using tools like this and Roam, Obesdian, etc. etc. etc? Personally I could see the use if you were writing a book or something, but I feel like in practice for normal notes I would just have all of these notes that I'd never look at again or spend so much time traversing my notes and not getting things done. As someone with distractive tendencies I'd love to hear the situations where this is useful so…
I’m with you, tried it but couldn’t keep up. I didn’t commit to it for very long which isn’t a fair trial, but I just didn’t see it panning out. One thing I realized was that most of my notes were links to pages on the internet with maybe a few extra words as context, and the rest were chicken scratch step-by-step things I did setting up something nontrivially complex. For the links, now I just use bookmarks in Firef…