Dendron Weekly: 0.75 release, new Convert Link command, enhanced Delete Node command, and more!
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Dendron 0.75 has sprouted 🌱
This is the last release of the year!
Make any mistakes this year you wish you could take back? Moving forward, if those mistakes involve accidentally deleting a note, Dendron will now ask for confirmation when deleting as well as show a preview of all links that will be broken from the operation. This is all thanks to the latest Dendron: Delete Node command enhancements!
Speaking of broken links, Dendron has an entirely new command: Convert Link! This command lets you convert broken links to plaintext, replacing the link with the link alias, note name, or text of your choosing. You can also use it to convert existing wiki links into other types of wiki links.
By default, backlinks are listed in alphabetical order. Now you can choose to sort those backlinks by last update timestamp (updated attribute in note frontmatter). Learn more here.
Highlights
- enhance(commands):
Dendron: Delete Nodecommand warns about links that will break, prompting users before deletion (docs) - feat(refactor): New
Dendron: Convert Linkcommand - enhance(views): adding optional last update sort ordering for backlinks view
Everything Else
- enhance(pods): better support for GitHub Issue and task notes (docs)
- enhance(lookup): better error message when using schema lookup
- fix(markdown): lag in the editor when there’s a x-vault link to a non-existent vault
- fix(markdown): correctly offset frontmatter line count in doctor preview for
findBrokenLinks - fix(publish): excluding the domain of a published hierarchy will cause publishing to throw an error
- fix(publish): hamburger display in wrong position on safari
- fix(lookup): autocomplete will sometimes not initialize
- fix(views): looping behavior when performing rename when note graph is open
- fix(commands): seed commands broken by internal refactoring
Community
General Updates
- New User Tuesdays: Starting on January 11th, Dendron will be having regular sessions for new users to ask questions and provide feedback on Dendron. Take a look at the Dendron Event Calendar for these and other events!
- Update to Contribution Tiers: We updated our contributin tiers this month. If you’d like to learn more, check out the tiers here.
- VS Code Livestream Recording: If you haven’t seen it just yet, Dendron was featured in the last livestream of the year by the VS Code team!
- Getting Started Guide Refresh: We updated the Getting Started this month, and would love for community members to take a look. Feel free to provide feedback in the GitHub Discussion.
Dendron Reading Series
This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.
Nearing the end of the year, you may have a habit of expanding your collections: piling up unread books, unplayed games, unused devices.
My bookshelf is far larger in the unread department than it is in the what I have read.
This reminds me of an antilibrary, and the ideas around how unread books represent the grand potential of knowledge. That they carry more value. I may have used this an excuse to continue growing a library I haven’t kept up with.
Though, it is especially true if that knowledge hasn’t resulted in some kind of output for improved recall. Notes help provide a roadmap to new connections and ideas. What was in that book I read five years ago? What were the lessons learned? How is it related to something else I’ve read? I can stare at a book and get a foggy recollection. I can look at my notes and get clear ideas.
Dendron’s mission is to help humans organize, find, and work with any amount of knowledge.
Using Dendron, the books I have read are now becoming more competitive in value to the unread. And the value of the books I am to read next? Even greater potential than before.
Office Hours
You can find notes from our latest office hours here.
To see what Office Hours, New User Tuesdays, and other events are coming up, take a look at the Dendron Event Calendar. The next Office Hours is on January 5th, 2022 at 9AM PST.
Thank You’s
A big thanks to the following gardeners that brought up issues, contributions, and fixes to this release!
You can see an overview of all roles here.
- Jim Tittsler
@jimt#5534#dendron.taxonomist- docs: Fix typos
- Zero King
@l2dy#9201 - Rick Berger
@rickbsgu#4922 - Denis Novikov
@voothi#3159 - Claus Conrad
@cconrad#0514#dendron.taxonomist- docs: Fix typos on note lookup output formats
- docs: Fix typo on unique
idvalue is unique to the hook - docs: Fix typo for foo/bar instead of foot/bar
- docs: Fix typo in Tree benefits for financial contributors to Dendron
#dendron.bugcatcher- Broken link in GitHub issue template “Bug report”
- Preview ignores wikilink label in rare case
- Ryan Hill
@rlh1994#9754#dendron.bugcatcher- Typo in VaultConvert.ts
- Thibault Nocchi
As Always: Community Resources
- Join the Dendron Discord
- Register for Dendron Events on Luma
- Follow Dendron on Twitter
- Checkout Dendron on GitHub
- Read the Dendron Blog