June 8, 2022

Dendron Weekly: 0.98 release, Template Helpers, Customize Preview, Hovers for Backlinks, 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 0.98 Release Notes

Template Helpers: Templates just got more powerful in Dendron. Make your notes programable using built-in helpers like equality checking or date fetching.

• More information: Template Helpers

Custom Themes in Preview: You asked for it and now its here. Customize the preview with your own css (and share them in our new #themes channel).

• More information: Theme

Hovers Are Coming to Backlinks: Backlinks will now preview the contents of the note when hovering over a link.

• More information: Backlinks

Deprecated

Old style templates are being replaced with Handlebar Templates. See the migration guide for changes.

Highlights

• feat(views): preview uses your vscode theme colors
• feat(views): custom theme support for preview
• feat(navigate): backlink panel with hover
• feat(edit): template helpers

Everything Else

• enhance(view): decrease min zoomed font-size for node labels in graph panel
• enhance(workspace): “migrate to self contained vault” updates logopath and moves gitignore file
• enhance(extend): add axios to hook function
• fix(publish): export gets stuck if logoPath is set but the logo doesn’t exist
• fix(views): added default initial theme for webviews
• fix(views): bullet points missing in new theme-matching style
• fix(views): backlinks panel tweaks
• fix(views): images with encoded uri are not rendered in the preview

Community

General Updates

Notes from Previous Office Hours: 2022-06-01 Office Hours

• NOTE: We only have partial audio for this session. Apologies - Kevin is still figuring out how to use OBS 😅

Greenhouse Series

In Greenhouse 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.

All talks are recorded and made available on YouTube after the fact.

Video from and notes from our last talk now available - Implementing Capture/Configure/Control in Dendron, and Dendron Local Config Overrides

Are you interested in speaking at our next greenhouse? If so, fill out the Greenhouse Proposal Form to apply for a slot!

Starboard and TIL Highlights

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

• ⭐ kevins8#0590 shared a workflow tip for Private Images: “for folks interested in a portable way of referencing private images across multiple machines, my setup involves using dropbox + nginx”

• ⭐ kfischer_okarin#2663 shared a way to insert an agenda depending on the weekday: “first attempt at combining a schema template with custom frontmatter + a hook to initialize my work journal notes with specific agenda headers depending on the weekday”

• 💡kevins8#0590 shared information about showing the difference between multiple commits on github using github.com//<repo_name>/compare/…. See Example.

Dendron Reading Series

This week’s entry in the Dendron Reading Series.

What happened to tagging?

Event Reminders

• Community Teatime: Drink tea, eat food, and hangout with the Dendron crew!
• Next: Thu, Jun 09, 11:00 AM PST / 19:00 UTC
• New User Tuesdays: Visit the New User Tuesdays page for notes from previous sessions.
• Next: Tue, Jun 14, 8:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC

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.

• lordfrikk @lordfrikk#3247

  • #role.taxonomist
  • wrong example in nav_exclude_children

• Marek Lukasiewicz @Maarrk#9537

  • #role.horticulturalist
  • enhance: Add axios to hook function

• Riccardo Dozzo @rioka#2156

  • #role.bugcatcher
  • OS dependent path for vaults

• bugfixd

  • #role.bugcatcher
  • Unable to prevent Dendron from treating @ as a user tag by escaping it

• Tika Tika#9526

  • Incorrect handling of colons after the task square brackets

• Ryan Hill @rlh1994#9754

  • EBUSY resource when migrating to self-contained vault

• Mihai Constantin mihaiconstantin#9440

  • #role.speaker
  • Spoke at the last Dendron greenhouse!

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