Dendron Weekly: 0.81 release, export notes to Airtable, 2021 Dendron new user report, and more!
It’s time for a weekly roundup! The email newsletter is a curated collection of weekly updates about Dendron and the Dendron community!
Dendron 0.81 has sprouted 🌱
Pod V2, the new and improved Dendron pod system, is now in preview! Improvements include flexibility that helps you export a single note, a hierarchy, a vault, or your entire workspace.
In addition, Dendron includes a built-in Airtable Export Pod! Have you wanted to visualize your task notes in a Kanban? With Airtable, now you can.
More on PodV2:
Workspace: Sync has evolved:
Dendron can automatically detect merge conflicts and rebases, stash and restore your local changes when pulling if needed, and warn you about misconfigured remotes. Make sure to look at the message Dendron shows you after the sync is completed to see if there were any errors.
Schemas have leveled up: you can now use cross-vault references to templates applied by schemas. This helps in multi-vault workspaces where templates with the same names can exist in multiple vaults.
Highlights
- feature(pods): announcing a new version of dendron pods: Pods V2
- enhance(schemas) support cross vault links in schema templates
- enhance(schemas) support template prompt when multiple templates match a schema
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync now can detect merge conflicts and ongoing rebases to avoid committing bad notes
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync now can detect bad or misconfigured remotes and warn about them
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync now can detect that a push is not needed, and skip pushing
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync commit messages now include the version of Dendron, the names of vaults in that repository, and the hostname of the committing machine
Everything Else
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync now can detect that a push would fail, and avoid pushing to remote
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync now stashes and unstashes local changes to pull even when there are uncommitted changes
- enhance(sync): Workspace Sync now has better error messages if something went wrong
- enhance(views) improve hover preview performance
- fix: preview opens wrong path on Windows
- fix(views): show preview doesn’t display targeted files when using file explorer
- fix(views): windows hover preview now shows images
- fix(schemas): Do not include stubs as part of template suggestions when applying a template
- fix(pods): update asset references on markdown import
- fix(publish): skip adding asset prefix to images with web url
Community
General Updates
- Discord: Environmentalists now have a voice talk channel: env-talk
- Discord: New publishing channel to talk about all things related to Dendron Publishing
- Dendron is now officially publisher verified on the VS Code Marketplace. This means all official plugins, published by Dendron, will include a shiny blue checkmark of authenticity.
- WriteTheDocs (WTD) Portland 2022 Conference: The conference will be focused on documentation systems, tech writing theory, and information delivery. It’s a good opportunity to share insights and experience with the wider documentation-writing community. If you are interested in attending or presenting, the deadline for submitting proposals is 11:59PM PT on February 25, 2022, and event tickets are now on sale.
- WriteTheDocs Conference Proposal Workshop: Haven’t submitted a proposal or spoken at a conference before? On Thurs. February 10th, there is a conference proposal workshop that can help you out if you are looking to present at WTD 2022.
2021 Dendron New User Survey Results
The new user survey was open for several months in 2021, where we were prompting new Dendron users within VS Code itself. We had a few thousand respondents take that opportunity to give us feedback. These are the results!
We’d love to hear how you are using Dendron! Take the 2022 Dendron User Survey and help us build a better tool for thought 🌱
Dendron Greenhouse Talks Rebooting
In these talks, Dendron community members share the fruits of their learning. This may include showcasing workflows, tooling setups, systems, and other topics in personal knowledge management, but also anything that the speaker has in-depth knowledge of that may be of interest to the wider community.
Recordings of Greenhouse talks from the past year can be viewed on the Dendron’s The Greenhouse YouTube Playlist.
- If you are interested in giving a Greenhouse talk, please fill out the Greenhouse Proposal Form.
- If there is a Greenhouse talk you would like to see, please fill out the Greenhouse Request Form.
In upcoming weeks, you will also have the chance to vote on which talk topic should be next.
However you may choose to be involved, thanks for being a vital part of this whole Dendron endeavor, and happy gardening!
Starboard and TIL Highlights
These are highlights from the Dendron Discord
#starboardand#today-i-learnedchannels.
- ⭐
Kamholtz#6006shared a link to Obsidian’s Breadcrumbs Plugin: “It is now possible to navigate Dendron vaults (with Obsidian) even when notes within the hierarchy do not exist yet. Said stubs appear in the various views as parents, children and siblings and can be easily created by tapping on them. I highly recommend everyone try it out if you’re looking for a good mobile option.” - 💡
seadude#7058shared:- How to disable the
workbench.editor.enablePreviewfeature in VS Code so that opening a file will open a new tab instead of a preview/transient tab:
- How to disable the
// Controls whether opened editors show as preview editors.
// Preview editors do not stay open, are reused until explicitly set to be kept open
// (e.g. via double click or editing), and show file names in italics.
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
- An alternative way to list images in tables, using HTML in Dendron notes:
<table>
<tr>
<td style="border: 5px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; padding:0px; border-color: #FAFAFA;">
<img src=".\assets\images\test.png"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Dendron Reading Series
This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.
Credit to
Jack of some quantity of trades#3247andfoureyedsoul#0796from the Dendron community for sharing in a conversation that included this link, as I added it to my reading list for this week’s reading series!
After a previous reading series had been posted, How to be spontaneous and grab some unexpected fun, community members popped in with strategies. One was dicing: in order to roll some spontaneity into your day, a 6-sided die can be the path toward non-project activities that you assign to each number.
Fractal Pomodoros talks about how pomodoros help limit the scope of your activities, essentially answering a question that can be too broad otherwise: should I be doing something else? Nope, you should just be doing what the pomodoro window is meant for. Not only that, but timed windows can be associated with and planned out over longer windows: 25 minutes, 2 hours, a weekend, etc.
Pomodoros aren’t just for studying and completing tasks in academia or at work, but can be used for more.
Does dicing sound great, but you have a problem with wanting to do all the things? If your hobby projects extend to the horizon, and prioritization is a whirlwind, maybe something more like a 20-sided die is needed in your life: for tabletop RPGs or the RPG of your own life. Treating your life as a game is something I’m hearing of more and more today, including a reframing of Twitter as an RPG.
Office Hours and New User Tuesdays
- Office Hours: Visit the Office Hours page for notes from previous sessions.
- New User Tuesdays: Visit the New User Tuesdays page for notes from previous sessions.
Thank You’s
A big thanks to the following gardeners that brought up issues, contributions, and fixes to this release. Visit Discord Roles for more information.
- SkepticMystic
@Kamholtz#6006 - Joshua Jeschek
@vanitasboi#0252 - Bassmann
@Bassmann#5300 - Funnym0nk3y
- raeyulca
- Scratch note sometimes auto-creates with bad frontmatter
- #role.bugcatcher
- Sam Wagner
@KylesKiller#4352 - Tika
Tika#9526 - Callum Mcdonald
@chmac#2931 - Sai Kishore Komanduri
- #role.taxonomist
- Update tags.stage.forest.md
- Update dendron.ref.stages.md
- Shein Lin Phyo
@Shein#0001- #role.taxonomist
- Update spelling
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