Dendron Weekly: 0.95 release, Custom Themes, Self Contained Vaults, initialization speed improvements, bug fixes, and more!
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A New Dendron Release has Appeared!
Local Configuration: We are releasing an early build of local configuration overrides, which allows a local configuration to override values in the default configuration. This lets you use your own settings and vaults within a shared team workspace.
- More information here about local configurations
Custom Themes: You can now customize the style of your sites published with Dendron. Step right up, bring your own custom CSS theme, and be amazed with how good your knowledge can look!
- Learn more about custom themes
Initialization Speed-Up: But wait, there’s more: less waiting! This release drastically improves workspace initialization speed (10x faster for large workspaces 🚀 ).
Highlights
- feat(chore): preview support for local configuration overrides
- feat(publish): custom theme support for publishing
- enhance(workspace): speed up workspace initialization (up to 10x speed up of workspace initialization)
Everything Else
- feat(views): allow customization of tree view display and sorting behavior
- enhance(views): set
full graphas default - enhance(views): display workspace information in full graph view
- enhance(workspace): new user tutorials
- fix(publish): published images missing leading forward slashes
Community
General Updates
Self Contained Vaults: Self contained vaults make it easier to sync and share your notes with others. They are backwards compatible with existing vaults which means you can experiment with them without breaking your current flow. Starting next week, we will be flipping the defaults so that newly created vaults will be self contained by default.
Starboard and TIL Highlights
These are highlights from the Dendron Discord
#starboardand#today-i-learnedchannels.
- ⭐
kzilla#8818shared a custom trait for creating a monthly journal - ⭐
kfischer_okarin#2663shared a link to an Atom feed of changed files in their digital garden: “I wrote a little ruby script to generate an Atom feed with entries for each changed file in my most recent commits. And I also wrote a little rough explanation in my digital garden about it… “
Dendron Reading Series
This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.
Credit to
@johnknowles#1154for sharing the link for this week’s Dendron Reading Series
Where do you capture your random thoughts? Some carry around a journal, others jot it down on their phone, or the nearest writable surface (“napkin sketch”). For all, the problem of storing passing thoughts into permanent forms is a repetitive one.
For all of these permanent forms, the next problem is where to put them. A journal offers a protected place, offering a set of pages to fill. Using a post-it or loose-leaf paper risks being lost, so we might choose a location to store them, introducing another risk that we might forget the location.
Storing notes digitally requires placement decisions as well: which app? which folder? what title? How will we locate this thought again? We gain a tool though: the ability to search these notes by keyword. This gives us a “Get Out of Jail Free” card-we don’t have to remember where we put something, if we remember what we put in it. If we can remember some of the words we wrote, we can locate the thought.
Still, we might forget exactly what we wrote down. When we maintain knowledge bases, we can take additional steps to minimize the risk of losing the thought by choosing the right location, links, tags or title. But have you ever fumbled through what to call a note? Or struggled to think of a place to put it? Me too. All of this extra “metadata” that surrounds our data-our thoughts-is an extra cost to us.
Because of this cost, we each develop our own strategies to balance letting ideas flow and taking steps to file them correctly. We choose the breadcrumbs we will leave (links, folders, tags, titles, keywords, etc). This to me is the most exciting component of PKM at the moment: that we are actively strategizing how to best go about organizing our stored units of thought.
And we’re doing so together. There is discussion in communities like Discord and Twitter, courses being developed, books being written—knowledge about knowledge management is being generated and shared, at an unprecedented rate and tools are being developed targeting knowledge management at an accelerating rate as well. You could say that we are compounding thought about how to compound thought. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
Event Reminders
- Greenhouse Talks: Visit the Greenhouse Talks page for notes from previous sessions.
- Subject: TBD
- Description: TBD
- Next: Fri, May 27, 04:00 PM PDT / 23:00 UTC
- Greenhouse Talk Recordings - YouTube Playlist
- 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 :man_farmer: :woman_farmer: Visit Discord Roles for more information.
- Tika
@Tika#9526- #role.horticulturalist
- typo
- fixed the language
- Fix alignment on published notes in the children section
- lexthanthree
@alexis<3#7889
Surveyors
The following community members provided feedback in the Dendron user survey:
@NorbertK#2895
As Always: Community Resources
- Join the Dendron Discord
- Register for Dendron Events on Luma
- Follow Dendron on Twitter
- Follow Dendron on Mastodon
- Subscribe to Dendron on YouTube
- Checkout Dendron on GitHub
- Read the Dendron Blog
- Visit and bookmark the Dendron Smartpage