Dendron Weekly: 0.97 release, Task Note improvements, templating additions, Dark Theme, 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!
Task Note Status: Wait, did I finish that task? Dendron now displays task status information in the preview as well as when publishing.
Handlebar Templates: Get a handle on templates - Dendron now supports Handlebars, a minimal templating language that lets you create flexible templates!
Clean up your published sidebar: It’s not too late for spring cleaning! You can now configure whether or not a published note should show it’s children in the tree view.
Highlights
- feat(markdown): handlebar based templates
- feat(views): display task note status when linking to task notes in publishing and in preview
- feat(publish): ability to exclude children in dendron side nav
Everything Else
- feat(edit): add command to apply a template
- feat(workspace): Add a command to migrate regular vaults into self contained vaults
- feat(publish): dark theme support
- enhance(edit): additional built-in variables for templates
- enhance(views): upgrade mermaid to v9.1.1
- enhance(navigate): make wikilinks clickable in hover
- enhance(workspace): better feedback to users for invalid dendron.yml
- fix(publish): publishing to respect enableHierarchyDisplay
- fix(publish): assetsPrefix breaks images
- fix(publish): “edit this page on …” link uses the wrong path for self contained vaults
- fix(workspace): Help and Feedback Panel not empty outside of dendron ws
Community
General Updates
Troubleshooting Issues: We’ve been working on a better way to diagnose, answer, and troubleshoot common user issues. Today, we are releasing a public dataview of frequently asked questions and how to fix them. We will continuously update this list with issues we seen on discord and when working with community members. Check it out here and please give us feedback in the #feedback channel or at support@dendron.so.
Latest Greenhouse Talk: Our latest greenhouse focused on GTD, local workspaces, and publishing public and private content. Notes & recording will be released later this week!
Starboard and TIL Highlights
These are highlights from the Dendron Discord
#starboardand#today-i-learnedchannels.
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@Maarrk#9537shared a video of a Zotero integration: “Hi everyone, I think I have a cool setup for Zotero integration so I thought I’d share here.”
Dendron Reading Series
This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.
Credit to
@krisfremen#6757for sharing the link for this week’s Dendron Reading Series in our#teatimechannel on Discord“a given computation can be achieved with any programming language, even spreadsheet formulas”.
The author took this piece of advice to heart, and inspired by Turing machines, sought to repurpose the general computational power of Excel. The author managed to create a 3D game engine, with features like infinite procedural generation, real-time ray tracing, occlusion and illumination, all in Microsoft Excel.
Reading this got me thinking: maybe it’s not what a tool allows you to do, but how it allows you to do it. The experience of using tools, their effectiveness, efficiency and ergonomics, often extends beyond their stated purpose. In the hands of the user, they may take on new meaning.
Are there tools that you use in ways that they weren’t meant to be? How have you repurposed tools to your own needs?
Event Reminders
- 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.
- Greenhouse Talks: Visit the Greenhouse Talks for notes from previous sessions.
- Subject: TBD
- Description: Interested speakers from the community will take 5 - 10 minutes each to present their workflows for a topic to be determined, followed by an open discussion. The event will be recorded and later published online.
- Next: Fri, Jun 24th, 04:00 PM PST / 00:00 UTC
- Greenhouse Talk Recordings - YouTube Playlist
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.
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Ding Fan
@rainmaker#7370#role.taxonomist- open dendron from terminal
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Norbert Klamann
@NorbertK#2895#role.taxonomist- Amend the copy/paste description
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Marek Lukasiewicz
@Maarrk#9537#role.taxonomist- Add gibcite
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