April 13, 2022

Dendron Weekly: 0.90 release, Custom URLs for vaults, bug fixes, 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!

A New Dendron Release has Appeared!

• Dendron 0.90 Release Notes

Vault-Level URLs: We’re improving the experience with published vaults. Vaults can now be configured with their own URL. These URLs will be used when copying or exporting notes, replacing wikilinks with the correct URL for the vault.

Highlights

• feature(publish): support custom urls for vaults

Everything Else

• enhance(publish): open published tree view links in new tab
• fix(workspace): error when adding a self contained vault inside a native workspace
• fix(publish): publish issues with latest version of nextjs due to swc module
• fix(workspace): preserve wikilink metadata on export
• fix(workspace): typo “hierarchy”, “should”
• fix(workspace): consistent tree item sort order

Community

Starboard and TIL Highlights

These are highlights from the Dendron Discord #starboard and #today-i-learned channels.

• 💡 cosMoAntonius#1450 shared a quote by Andy Warhol: “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

Dendron Reading Series

This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.

• Programmable Notes

Credit to @rlh1994#9754 for sharing the link for this week’s Dendron Reading Series in our #chat channel!

Does your second brain do any thinking? Or does it just remember stuff?

In Programmable Notes, Maggie Appleton critiques the Warehouse model of knowledge bases, in which our systems of notes become “passive storage containers” for knowledge. Instead she paints a different vision, what I’ll call the Factory model, in which active agents help us reflect, connect and interact with our knowledge.

These agents, or programs, allow our second brain to go beyond remembering things and into the world of doing things. Instead of knowledge sitting idle in a warehouse, we have agents busy at work in a factory, manufacturing goods with our knowledge as material. Appleton’s agents follow a simple “when this, do that” pattern. When a condition is met, do something.

These condition-action pairs give our knowledge bases rules to follow so they can think and act for themselves, doing things like prompting us to reflect on, summarize or connect our knowledge, recommending other notes to link to, pulling in metadata from external sources…and so on.

If we want to have agency over our knowledge, maybe we need a few agents to help us out…

Event Reminders

• New User Tuesdays: Visit the New User Tuesdays page for notes from previous sessions.
  • Next: Tue, Apr 12, 8:30 AM PDT / 15:30 UTC
• Community Teatime: Drink tea, eat food, and hangout with the Dendron crew!
  • Next: Thu, Apr 14, 11:00 AM PDT / 18:00 UTC
• Greenhouse Talks: Visit the Greenhouse Talks page for notes from previous sessions.
  • Subject: Publishing workflows with Dendron.
  • Description: Interested speakers will present their workflows for publishing content, followed by an open discussion. The event will be recorded and later published online.This is a good opportunity to share tips and tricks about nifty things about your workflow, and ask for advice and input on challenges and pain-points in your current system.
  • Next: Fri, Apr 29, 04:00 PM PDT / 23:00 UTC
  • Greenhouse Talk Recordings - YouTube Playlist
• Office Hours: Visit the Office Hours page for notes from previous sessions.
  • Next: Wed, May 04, 09:00 AM PDT / 16:00 UTC
  • Office Hour Recordings - YouTube Playlist
  • Notes for this past weeks Office Hours can be found here, and the recording here.

Thank You’s

A big thanks to the following gardeners that brought up issues, contributions, and fixes to this release :man_farmer: :woman_farmer: Visit Discord Roles for more information.

• Pablo Lion @Pablo LION#3433

  • #role.horticulturalist
  • fix: typo “hierarchy”, “should”

• Dmytro Shapovalov

  • #role.taxonomist
  • Mistake in documentation example regarding Folding in md

• lexthanthree

  • #role.taxonomist
  • Dendron documentation has some hard to read diagrams

• Nickolay Kondratyev @nickolay-kond#9861

  • Publishing: Images do not show up with simplest publishing technique

• Tika Tika#9526

  • Images in embedded notes do not render in Preview

• MrGlitchByte

  • #role.bugcatcher
  • [Bug] Import Markdown pod Maximum call stack size exceeded

• Steven Fan

  • #role.bugcatcher
  • siteUrl, assetPrefix aren’t prepended to links on dendron publish export

• Ding Fan @rainmaker#7370

  • “Go to Note” show error “bad path”

Surveyors

The following community members provided feedback in the Dendron user survey:

• @dy#4526

As Always: Community Resources

• Join the Dendron Discord
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