Show HN: Dendron – Super Fast Open Source Note-Taking in VSCode

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Hacker News Search

This get's posted to HN fairly frequently, always as a new Show HN.<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dendron.so" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dendron.so</a><p>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;<p>I'll likely continue to try it out, because the marketing and documentation looks so good. Having spent a fair bit of time on this now, I don't think it's really possible to have a good experience with VSCode as the input.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Blogging 1927 social mentions

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Logseq

You should try logseq[1], been using it for quite some time now and it's coming really well. It is an Opensource local-first roam alternative, it supports both markdown and org syntax and it has a lot of features like publishing, encryption, time tracking etc.<p>[1] <a href="https://logseq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://logseq.com/</a>.

#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions

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Write.as

I don't use any of those tools.<p>I have a .plan where I jot things down as quasi-Markdown formatted list items. I treat it like a stack, so new items are added at the top, making it somewhat resemble the landing page of a traditional personal blog, showing the content of posts in reverse chronological order, but that's just for the convenience of entry. Most items are not even post-quality, often just sentence fragments, etc.<p>I occasionally revisit past items, either by alluding to them in new item entries, or expanding the existing item with new thoughts, I can be bothered to hunt for them before I begin writing (although usually not). Also occasionally, but less frequently, I extract an item and dump that line inquiry into the beginnings of a full-fledged blog post, but most of these never leave _drafts/. This is still useful, because it means I can deal with topics that have outgrown the .plan structure, and they also become addressable, even in unpublished form. If I want to refer to a draft, I just use file URIs. If my personal site's URL were philipjfry.example then the URI for my draft would be <file://stroopwafel.philipjfry.example//home/fry/drafts/foo.markdown>, where /home/fry/drafts is symlinked to the actual _drafts directory in the repo for my static site and "stroopwafel" is the hostname for my laptop.<p>(It doesn't matter that stroopwafel.philipjfry.com isn't resolvable anywhere, or that the hostname component in file URIs is ignored by every piece of software, or that no software exists that understands the leading double slash in the resource component refers to an absolute path on a real machine. It's all just notation, and you can make up anything you want, so long as it fits your purposes.)<p>I should also plug <a href="https://write.as" rel="nofollow">https://write.as</a> here, which tries to get out of your way and let you get to writing immediately (and even post anonymously), but I just don't use it that often since my system works well enough.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 54 social mentions

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GitHub Codespaces

> <i>Can’t access my notes from mobile</i><p>On mobile (iPad anyway) try CodeSpaces:<p><a href="https://github.com/features/codespaces" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/features/codespaces</a><p>It’s VS Code in your browser tab, and works great.<p>Separately, I don’t necessarily use that, since it’s an online experience. I use Working Copy and Textastic (or other local native editor depending). Benefit of git sync and markdown. A smattering of local editors do have both Markdown and mermaid support.<p>Rest of your feedback, I agree with.

#Text Editors #Programming #IDE 142 social mentions

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Foam

How does Dendron compare to Foam[1]?<p>[1] <a href="https://foambubble.github.io/foam/" rel="nofollow">https://foambubble.github.io/foam/</a>

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions