Dendron Weekly: 0.76 release, template variable for date values, tutorial on daily journals with schemas, and more!
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Dendron 0.76 has sprouted 🌱
Do you find yourself updating date values in the content of your inserted templates? That can now be inserted automatically with template variables:
- Example:
Today is .. - Template output:
Today is 2022.01.04
We’ve also added a blog post: The Five Minute Journal with Dendron and Visual Studio Code! The Five Minute Journal (5MJ) is a simple but effective way to get started with note taking. We go over a daily template that you can use to add some structure to your days.
Another major quality of life improvement we’re launching today is the ability to preview regular markdown using the Dendron: Show Preview command. Now you can use the same Dendron preview on all your markdown files, even if they’re not inside a Dendron workspace!
Breaking Changes
Dendron previously published backlinks and child links as header/anchor sections at the end of each note. They are now changing from <h2> to <strong>. Backlinks and child links won’t appear as header sections in the local TOC for a page, and will no longer have anchors to link to (ex. #backlinks).
Deprecation Notices
- deprecate(publishing): 11ty publishing will be removed with the next release, and is no longer maintained. This does not affect you if you use the current Next.js publishing
- If you wish to continue using 11ty, you will need to lock
@dendronhq/dendron-cli@0.76
- If you wish to continue using 11ty, you will need to lock
- deprecate(refactor): Dendron Doctor will no longer include
oldNoteRefToNew, which was used in the past to convert between((ref: foo))to![[foo]]
Highlights
- enhance(schema): support date variable substitution for templates (docs)
- enhance(views):
Dendron: Show Previewworks for regular markdown files (docs) - enhance(views): adds a
Dendron: Show Previewbutton in the context menu when right-clicking a markdown file in the file explorer, as well as when right-clicking a tab in the editor
Everything Else
- enhance(lookup): add auto completion to
Go Downcommand (docs) andCreate Task Notecommand (docs) - enhance(workspace): improve note highlighting and autocomplete performance
- fix(workspace): typo in convert vault command
- fix(workspace): frontmatter tags are not highlighted
- fix(publish): compiler issue with nextjs
- fix(lookup): full length word matches should be case insensitive
- fix(views): update tree order when a note changes order
- fix(workspace): don’t show calendar view unless dendron tree view is active
- fix(workspace): rename operations modify unnecessary files
- fix(lookup): regression on
onTriggerButtonnot scoping properly - fix(server): specify
localhostwhen starting server
Community
Documentation Update
- Site reorg progress: The Community hierarchy has been updated.
Starboard and TIL Highlights
These are highlights from the Dendron Discord
#starboardand#today-i-learnedchannels.
- ⭐
@amar#9880shared a write-up on How to use a custom theme with Dendron: “Here’s a write-up. Though I’m still in the process of figuring things out!” - ⭐
@kzilla#8818shared a VS Code customization: “Simple VS Code customization (insettings.json) to change heading colors and section folding shading. Makes reading markdown heck of a lot easier.” - ⭐
@kevins8#0590shared a link to Getting a Computer Science PhD in the USA: “Since we have a bunch of phds and folks considering it, this provides a good lens into current phd landscape for computer science.” - 💡
@kevins8#0590shared a link to Semantics and the Web: An Awkward History: “A history of markup on the web as told through a lego playmation talk. See some parallels between web browsers back in the day and note taking tools today in terms of interoperability. Hopefully we’ll avoid the xhtml phase…”
Dendron Reading Series
This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.
Credit to
foureyedsoul#0796from the Dendron community for sharing this link, as I added it to my reading list for this week’s reading series!
There are a variety of articles, guidance, and methods that exist when it comes to note taking workflows. This article focused on short memos (~200 words) as a way to expand their existing approach to a Creativity Flywheel.
”…If you imagine a gardener who tills the soil in a flowerbed and apply that to tilling and pruning your notes and captured information, you’re on the right track.”
Sounds like dendronites working on their gardens.
My favorite thoughts from this article are around being able to use your garden to see the connections and solutions to problems you may have been unable to see before. This makes me think of connections being like a large, underground root system. Or, perhaps more like the giant mushroom that’s the largest organism known on Earth.
Resources:
- Atomic notes: How to use Zettelkasten to boost your creativity and productivity
- Conversations around workflows and note taking strategies happen across a variety of the Dendron Discord Channels in the Community category.
- Dendron’s Open PKM Catalog: a reference of all things PKM (Personal knowledge management)! Feel free to browse and contribute.
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 :man_farmer: :woman_farmer: You can see an overview of all roles here
- emmjayvee
- Claus Conrad
@cconrad#0514 - Ryan Hill
@rlh1994#9754 - redsolver
@redsolver#0372 - jquesada2016
- Bryan Jenks
@tallguyjenks#3567 - Nahom Befekadu
@That_G_LexLuther#5100 - Jaroslav Knotek
- Matthew Giallourakis
@Foldster#7441 - Murtaza Nazir
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