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Congrats on the launch! I've been using Foam [1] for the last year, which is an open-source vscode-powered aternative to obsidian. There seems to be a large ov
by p1nkpineapple 5y ago
Congrats on the launch!
I've been using Foam [1] for the last year, which is an open-source vscode-powered aternative to obsidian. There seems to be a large overlap in features. What benefits does Dendron have over Foam that would convince me to switch?
[1] https://github.com/foambubble/foam/ https://github.com/foambubble/foam/
- kevinslin 5y agoYou're right, there is overlap in the sense that both Dendron and Foam are open source note taking tools based around vscode and markdown. Dendron differs in our focus on structure - while we support backlinks, wikilinks, and tags, the primary way of navigating notes in Dendron is by hierarchy which can be described by schemas (our type system for note hierarchies). We provide extensive tooling around traversing and manipulating this structure (lookup, refactoring, etc) For a more detailed breakdown, you can see the foam vs dendron page here -> https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/p5fMTi-6zOyX1TwhL6dM0.html https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/p5fMTi-6zOyX1TwhL6dM0.html
- dboreham 5y agoIf anyone is interested in more detail on the schema system, I found it documented here : https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75cbb1052/ https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75c... after following the link in the parent.