![]() ![]() I'm allergic to apps that are too limited for my volume and density of knowledge. I use new knowledge apps to see how they feel, but mostly studiously avoid getting stuck into complex systems and closed silos. Given my volume of notes over decades, I know a bit about the cul-de-sacs knowledge systems run into. I've used apps - everything from Filemaker Pro, to Mark Bernstein's excellent Tinderbox, to DevonThink, to Tiddlywiki, to ones i've written myself, and dozens more, including the latest batch of 'tools for thought'. I may have a few thousand more notes than (Private) I've never stopped taking notes since 1993. I had read 'Lila' by Robert Pirsing and 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra, both of whom used index card systems to organise those books. I started taking organised notes in 1993. This is my first time writing testimonial btw, thanks and feel free to let me know if it's too lengthy lol (Private) That's all I want to say and I apologize for the profanity in the title if you feel offended. If you think Dendron is interesting, just give it a try and start building your second brain. Although Dendron is not perfect (yet) and have some room of improvement, it suits my needs personally and these issues will eventually be solved by cool guys in the team or in the open source community. I store everything in Dendron now and I know it's secure and they're simply plain text Markdown files so no one knows (and cares) if I store anything personal or not. Everyone can build their second brain or wiki. Publishing notes is a pleasure as well (finally) by managed publishing and you can directly publish your notes after hosting them on GitHub (of course you can make it private too I think) instead of rewriting them and publish them as a website. If you are in between both categories (like me), then Dendron is definitely your first choice for hybrid workflows. The C-l lookup feature is absolutely great too. ![]() Garderners can just ignore the hierarchy and do the linking while Librarians can focus on the hierarchy through the naming of the notes with each hierarchy separated by periods. Referencing to this article from Nesslabs, Dendron fits both Gardeners and Librarians by combining the power of hierarchy, linking and publishing. Dislike other note taking apps, in Dendron both hierarchy and linking is provided and you can combine them according to your likings. ![]() So to speak, working my notes inside dendron is a pleasure as well. I have also tried other tools meanwhile as well but eventually I always turn my head back to Dendron. and had been sticking with it for a couple months now. I met Dendron at the time that I was in a chaos state using different note taking apps like Roam, Obsidian, Evernote, etc. I was frequently changing my tools without a fixed workflow in the early days of stepping into the productivity and note taking world, it is just great to see that so many cool guys are building tools to make knowledge management a pleasure and more efficient. P.S.: Now, whenever I write code and not notes in VSCode, I still keep mashing Ctrl + L instead of Ctrl + P.Īs one of the cofounder of The Productivists and a note taking tool hunter, I found it hard to control myself to not get my hand dirty in front of new shiny tools. When I first stumbled upon Dendron (I landed on the wiki, and not the main site), I dismissed it as something extremely technical and niche when I later decide to try it out of desperation as I got stuck in a mire of indecision as to which of the note-taking apps I should adopt, I couldn't figure out how to create a note (I had to watch a video to understand) when I read about hierarchies and uber-fast lookups, I was hooked. Endless variety of an ice cream store with a gazillion flavours. Almost all the apps, expect for some like TiddlyWiki, felt eerily the same, as if each one was a feature subset of some mysterious Perfect Note-Taking App. I have tried some of them read and looked at screenshots of the rest. It was a step up from OneNote, but it turned out there are so many good note-taking apps that I needed to take notes: Keeping notes in Markdown wasn't a new concept to me, but didn't pay much attention to it before trying out Joplin. Someone suggested I should use Joplin as a more secure alternative to OneNote, and there I went down the rabbit hole of note-taking apps. Hating your note-taking tool does not lead to better productivity, but I kept telling myself there was a PEBCAK and made fewer and fewer notes. Editing in OneNote always felt loose and sloppy-I could never get my notes to look consistent and I could never tell which styles apply where (copy-pasting brings source styles into OneNote and sometimes they mess with line spacing which is very annoying to fix). I've been using OneNote for some years in a state of mild, but perceptible dissatisfaction as I garnered suppressed resentment to WYSIWYG editors. ![]()
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