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The thing I keep sitting with is what one wants for personal knowledge management vs. collective knowledge management. I've been using athens research ( https:/

The thing I keep sitting with is what one wants for personal knowledge management vs. collective knowledge management. I've been using athens research ( https://www.athensresearch.org/ https://www.athensresearch.org/ ) so far after doing classnotes in roam thinking one there could be extensions in the future to make things 'feel' like navigating directories of markdown files if really needed. After reading more about dendron which states on https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron "It's a personal knowledge management solution (PKM) built specifically for developers and integrates natively with IDEs like VS Code and VSCodium." , the question is how these tools could serve a wider audience if they were packaged more as standalone app (using something like Eclipse Theia).

kevinslin 4y ago
In terms of making it available to a wider audience - Dendron comes with a NextJS Template: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg This makes it easy to publish your notes as a static site. The plan is to add optional server side capabilities here so that it becomes possible to read *and* write notes, at which point it becomes a web interface for note taking. It also helps with the distribution problem (Dendron is used by teams to publish documentation to non-technical folks so it helps that they can access it as a regular webpage)
EricAAJohnson 4y ago
I wish Dendron would use a more conventional way for hierarchy. I don't like its choice of dots for that.
- kevinslin 4y ago
  that's fair. the dot hierarchy has been a polarizing topic with folks falling on both sides of it. the reason we went with it is because: - it allows a file to be both a note and a parent of notes - it makes hierarchy an explicit part of note creation - it greatly simplified operations like refactoring (regex over filename, no need to create scaffolding with empty folders or removing folders if they no longer had children) - it makes it easy to work with using cli tools More discussion on this here: - https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e80b558/#why-hierarchies https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e... - https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e80b558.html#will-dendron-ever-support-folders https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e...

kevinslin 4y ago

In terms of making it available to a wider audience - Dendron comes with a NextJS Template: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg This makes it easy to publish your notes as a static site. The plan is to add optional server side capabilities here so that it becomes possible to read *and* write notes, at which point it becomes a web interface for note taking. It also helps with the distribution problem (Dendron is used by teams to publish documentation to non-technical folks so it helps that they can access it as a regular webpage)

EricAAJohnson 4y ago

I wish Dendron would use a more conventional way for hierarchy. I don't like its choice of dots for that.

kevinslin 4y ago
that's fair. the dot hierarchy has been a polarizing topic with folks falling on both sides of it. the reason we went with it is because: - it allows a file to be both a note and a parent of notes - it makes hierarchy an explicit part of note creation - it greatly simplified operations like refactoring (regex over filename, no need to create scaffolding with empty folders or removing folders if they no longer had children) - it makes it easy to work with using cli tools More discussion on this here: - https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e80b558/#why-hierarchies https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e... - https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e80b558.html#will-dendron-ever-support-folders https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e...