4 ms·

Isn't Dendron basically the same thing? It's built on VSCode as well. Foam was literally mentioned in the article and didn't scratch the author's itch, but I'm

Isn't Dendron basically the same thing? It's built on VSCode as well. Foam was literally mentioned in the article and didn't scratch the author's itch, but I'm not sure why it didn't but Dendron is.

cropcirclbureau 4y ago
Dendron is built around the dot.namespace.hierarchies which are a nifty way to organize your PKM and implement "Folder Notes" feature. Foam is more traditional, file system based. Very like Obsidian, like I said. I was able to _sense_ the extra man hours Dendron's had but yeah, otherwise basically the same.
maximus-decimus 4y ago
The big difference, is FOAM notes are meant to be flat (or you can use folder I guess) and you explore just via the links whereas Dendrons have hierarchies of notes. So "food" is a note about food in general, "food.chinese" is a note under food that's about chineses food, "food.chinese.tao-chicken" is a note about tao-chicken under chinese-food, etc. You can also just skip notes in the hierarchy, so you could have just "food" and "food.chinese.tao-chicken" and a placeholder "food.chinese" would appear in the graph. I personally really liked the note/subnote model used in Zim Wiki, but that program wasn't great for code snippets or to write graphs so I'm pretty excited about Dendron. In comparison, trying to connect my notes is just such a pain with a flat system like foam and Obsidian.
- platz 4y ago
  in what way is Obsidian a "flat" system? It has folders, no? Or did you mean something else?
  - maximus-decimus 4y ago
    Your notes are not under other notes in Obsidian, just inside a folder. Also files in a same folder doesn't affect the graph in any way. The the graph it all looks flat and notes are linked only by the links you explicitly wrote. In comparison, Dendron graphs shows both explicit connections, but also the parents/children.

4 ms·

Isn't Dendron basically the same thing? It's built on VSCode as well. Foam was literally mentioned in the article and didn't scratch the author's itch, but I'm

by fastball 4y ago

Isn't Dendron basically the same thing? It's built on VSCode as well. Foam was literally mentioned in the article and didn't scratch the author's itch, but I'm not sure why it didn't but Dendron is.

cropcirclbureau 4y ago
Dendron is built around the dot.namespace.hierarchies which are a nifty way to organize your PKM and implement "Folder Notes" feature. Foam is more traditional, file system based. Very like Obsidian, like I said. I was able to _sense_ the extra man hours Dendron's had but yeah, otherwise basically the same.
maximus-decimus 4y ago
The big difference, is FOAM notes are meant to be flat (or you can use folder I guess) and you explore just via the links whereas Dendrons have hierarchies of notes. So "food" is a note about food in general, "food.chinese" is a note under food that's about chineses food, "food.chinese.tao-chicken" is a note about tao-chicken under chinese-food, etc. You can also just skip notes in the hierarchy, so you could have just "food" and "food.chinese.tao-chicken" and a placeholder "food.chinese" would appear in the graph. I personally really liked the note/subnote model used in Zim Wiki, but that program wasn't great for code snippets or to write graphs so I'm pretty excited about Dendron. In comparison, trying to connect my notes is just such a pain with a flat system like foam and Obsidian.
- platz 4y ago
  in what way is Obsidian a "flat" system? It has folders, no? Or did you mean something else?
  - maximus-decimus 4y ago
    Your notes are not under other notes in Obsidian, just inside a folder. Also files in a same folder doesn't affect the graph in any way. The the graph it all looks flat and notes are linked only by the links you explicitly wrote. In comparison, Dendron graphs shows both explicit connections, but also the parents/children.