<h1 id="009">0.09<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#009"></a></h1>
<p>This week's focus was on improving the initial Dendron startup experience as well as the overall usability. To that end, we introduced our own tree view, overhauled the getting started experience and created a cheatsheet of all commands (with GIFs of course). </p>
<p>We also took time to fix bugs and improve performance across Dendron's core features (eg. Lookup, Markdown Preview, etc.). </p>
<p>These release notes are summary of the more notable changes, for the full list, please look at our <a href="https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md">CHANGELOG</a></p>
<h2 id="engine">Engine<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#engine"></a></h2>
<h3 id="enhancements">Enhancements<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#enhancements"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Add check to make sure that lookup will throw an error if overwriting an existing file </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="fixes">Fixes<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#fixes"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Sometimes lookup will not return all results on startup </li>
<li>Edge case where 'create new' was shown even when note exists </li>
<li>Having a naked date in frontmatter could cause lookup to fail </li>
</ul>
<h2 id="hierarchies">Hierarchies<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#hierarchies"></a></h2>
<h3 id="add-go-up-hierarchy-command">Add Go Up Hierarchy command<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#add-go-up-hierarchy-command"></a></h3>
<p>Go up to the closest non-stub parent of the currently open note. </p>
<p><img src="https://foundation-prod-assetspublic53c57cce-8cpvgjldwysl.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/images/hierarchy.go-up.gif"></p>
<h2 id="markdown">Markdown<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#markdown"></a></h2>
<h3 id="fixes-1">Fixes<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#fixes-1"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Preview command would fail to load preview </li>
</ul>
<h2 id="pods">Pods<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#pods"></a></h2>
<h3 id="enhancements-1">Enhancements<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#enhancements-1"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Throw error on badly formed links </li>
</ul>
<h2 id="workbench">Workbench<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#workbench"></a></h2>
<h3 id="add-dendron-tree-view-docs">Add Dendron tree view (<a href="https://www.dendron.so/notes/f7ebd4aa-8ba7-4bc5-bd00-a1efc5315f07.html#dendron-tree-view">docs</a>)<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#add-dendron-tree-view-docs"></a></h3>
<p>The Dendron Tree View lets you view your hierarchal notes as a traditional folder hierarchy. It has the following capabilities</p>
<pre><code>- click to open note
- show indicators for `stub` and `schema` notes
- show title using tooltip
- realtime update when you create/delete notes
- toggle all functionality
- reveal currently open text document
</code></pre>
<p><img src="https://foundation-prod-assetspublic53c57cce-8cpvgjldwysl.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/images/workbench.treeview.gif"></p>
<h3 id="show-cheatsheet-of-all-commands-docs">Show cheatsheet of all commands (<a href="https://www.dendron.so/notes/eea2b078-1acc-4071-a14e-18299fc28f47.html#showhelp">docs</a>)<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#show-cheatsheet-of-all-commands-docs"></a></h3>
<p><img src="https://foundation-prod-assetspublic53c57cce-8cpvgjldwysl.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/images/workbench.help.gif"></p>
<h3 id="near-instantaneous-lookup-">Near Instantaneous Lookup 🚀🚀🚀<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#near-instantaneous-lookup-"></a></h3>
<p>Lookup will complete &#x3C;100ms even as you scale to thousands of notes. </p>
<h3 id="enhancements-2">Enhancements<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#enhancements-2"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Don't ignore focus out on lookup </li>
<li>Tree view focus on active editor </li>
<li>Show collapse all in tree view </li>
<li>Treeview tooltip reflect note title </li>
<li>Refresh tree view on note deletion </li>
<li>Add sort to tree view </li>
<li>Keyboard shortcuts don't require editor focus </li>
<li>Update default theme to <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemname=github.github-vscode-theme">GitHub light</a> </li>
<li>Loading indicator when workspace is first starting </li>
<li>Always initialize first workspace with walkthrough </li>
<li>Show create new option in schema lookup </li>
<li>Better first workspace experience </li>
<li>Bundle Dendron Markdown Preview with Dendron on installation </li>
<li>New welcome screen on first initialization </li>
<li>Better lookup results when at root of vault </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="fixes-2">Fixes<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#fixes-2"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Remove stub indicator from lookup after note creation </li>
<li>Copy note commands will sometimes fail on windows </li>
<li>Copy note link could sometimes fail </li>
<li>Add no active item picks back to lookup </li>
<li>Misleading loading message </li>
</ul>
<h2 id="community">Community<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#community"></a></h2>
<h3 id="dendrologist">Dendrologist<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#dendrologist"></a></h3>
<p>We introduced our first Dendrologist this week. <a href="https://github.com/kpathakota">Kiran Pathakoda</a> has been one of the first to adopt Dendron as his primary note taking platform and will be helping out with the development of Dendron.</p>
<p>In practice, this means Kiran will be hanging around the Discord, help triage issues, and help me put together a more comprehensive public roadmap for the project!</p>
<p>If you're interested in being more involved with the development of Dendron (and this doesn't have to involve coding), feel free to ping me on Discord or by email at <a href="/mailto:kevin@dendron.so">kevin@dendron.so</a>.</p>
<p>There are a bunch of really exciting things that will be coming out over the next couple of weeks and we will need all the dendrologist we can get :) </p>
<h3 id="new-channels">New Channels<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#new-channels"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>#dev: discuss all things related to Dendron development</li>
<li>#schemas: share and discuss schemas</li>
<li>#workflows: how do you take notes?</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="thank-you">Thank You<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#thank-you"></a></h2>
<p>Last and most of all, a big <strong>thanks</strong> to the following gardeners that brought up issues and contributed fixes to this release.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/herop">Jochen Burkhard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jojanaho">Janne Ojanaho</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/buxel">Chris Na</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/gereleth">Daria Vasyukova</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/denisdifazio">Denis Di Fazio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nixsee">nixsee</a></li>
</ul>

0.09 dendron.dendron-site


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![Dendron Logo](https://foundation-prod-assetspublic53c57cce-8cpvgjldwysl.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/logo-256.png)

Dendron is an **open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool**. 
Think of it as a **cache for everything that you care about** - if you've spent **more then five minutes** solving a problem, you should **never** spent any more time solving the same exact problem. 

Dendron is a knowledge base built by and for developers and integrates natively with IDEs like [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) and [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/).


## Motivation

> "We are overwhelmed with information and we don't have the tools to properly index and filter through it. [The development of these tools, which] will give society access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages [should] be the first objective of our scientist" - Vannevar Bush, 1945

## How

Dendron builds on top of the past five decades of programming languages and developer tooling. We apply the key lessons from software to the management of general knowledge. 
We make managing general knowledge like managing code and your PKM like an IDE.

## Design Principles

### Developer Centric

Dendron aims to create a world class developer experience for managing knowledge.

Our goal is to provide a tool with the efficiency of Vim, the extensibility of Emacs, and the approachability of VS Code.

What this means:

- dendron features are text centric and composables
- dendron provides the lowest friction interface for working with your knowledge base
- dendron optimizes for efficiency, speed, and keyboard focused ux
- dendron comes with sane defaults and the ability to customize to your liking
- dendron can be extended along any dimension

### Gradual Structure

Dendron extends markdown with structural primitives to make it easier to manage at scale and tooling on top to work with this structure.

Different knowledge bases require different levels of structure - a PKM used for keeping daily journals is different than a company wide knowledge base used by thousands of developers.

Dendron works with any level of structure, meaning you can take free form notes when starting out and gradually layer on more structure as your knowledge base grows more.

### Flexible and Consistent

Dendron is both flexible and consistent. It provides a consistent structure for all your notes and gives you the flexibility to change that structure.

In Dendron, you can refactor notes and Dendron will make sure that your PKM is consistent throughout. This means that you have the best of both worlds: a basic structure for the organization but the flexibility to change it.

## Features

Dendron has hundreds of features. The following is a list of highlights.

### It's just Plaintext

- manage using git
- use git blame to see individual edits
- edit in anything that works on text files (eg. Vim)

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/67b90027de974702a78753158822e96b">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/67b90027de974702a78753158822e96b.gif">
</a>

### Markdown and More

- create diagrams using mermaid
- write math using katex
- embed notes (and parts of notes) in multiple places using note references

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/f7e710a3c3454e75a2938d2cbed359d9">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/f7e710a3c3454e75a2938d2cbed359d9.gif">
</a>

### Lookup

- one unified way to find and create notes
- quickly traverse and create new hierarchies

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/29ec0fe0964648feae08387a7bb8c45f">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/29ec0fe0964648feae08387a7bb8c45f.gif">
</a>

### Schema

- ensure consistency for your knowledge base
- get autocomplete hints when creating new notes
- automatically apply common templates to notes on creation

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/faee68959647441e86b9c4c183384ce5">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/faee68959647441e86b9c4c183384ce5.gif">
</a>

### Navigation

- explore relationships using backlinks
- navigate to notes, headers and arbitrary blocks
- visualize your knowledge base using the graph view

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/2d365d965c104af2a1501d789aa2d2b1">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2d365d965c104af2a1501d789aa2d2b1.gif">
  </a>

### Refactor

- restructure your knowledge base without breaking links
- rename a single note or refactor using arbitrary regex
- rename and move individual sections within notes

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/b1a84decc53f4639b5bc60c885c56543">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/b1a84decc53f4639b5bc60c885c56543.gif">
</a>

### Vaults

- mix and match knowledge using vaults, a git backed folder for your notes
- use vaults to separate concerns, like personal notes and work notes
- publish vaults on git to collaborate and share knowledge with others

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/c51e457ac2b0415ca91a8929411add64">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/c51e457ac2b0415ca91a8929411add64.gif">
  </a>

### Publish

- export your knowledge base as a static (nextjs) site
- lookup locally and share globally with generated links
- manage what you publish using fine grained permissions on a per vault, per hiearchy and per note basis

<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/727537e0fd49481cac2accc2b3362fa3">
    <img style="" src="https://org-dendron-public-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/727537e0fd49481cac2accc2b3362fa3.gif">
  </a>

## Use Cases

- personal knowledge management (PKM)
- documentation
- meeting notes
- tasks and todos
- blogging
- customer relationship management

## Getting Started

Interested in trying out Dendron? Jump right in with the [Getting Started Guide](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/678c77d9-ef2c-4537-97b5-64556d6337f1/)!

## Join Us

Dendron wouldn't be what it is today without our wonderful set of members and supporters.

### Community Calendar

We have a bunch of community events that we host throughout the week. You can stay up to date on whats happening by taking a look at our community calendar!

- View and register for upcoming [Dendron Community Events on Luma](https://link.dendron.so/luma)

### Dendron Newsletter

- [Subscribe to the Dendron Newsletter](https://link.dendron.so/newsletter)

Dendron sends out a weekly newsletter highlighting:

- Latest release features
- Latest [Dendron blog](https://blog.dendron.so) posts
- Insights from the [Dendron Discord](https://link.dendron.so/discord) community
- RFC updates and [GitHub discussions](https://link.dendron.so/6WvK)
- and more!

### Join other Dendrologists

There are a variety of ways to connect with Dendron devs, contributors, and other members of the Dendron community:

- Join the [Dendron on Discord](https://link.dendron.so/discord) 
- Follow [Dendron on Twitter (`@dendronhq`)](https://link.dendron.so/twitter)
- Checkout [Dendron on GitHub](https://link.dendron.so/github)
- Read the [Dendron Blog](https://blog.dendron.so/)
- Subscribe to the [Dendron Newsletter](https://link.dendron.so/newsletter)

## Contributors ✨

Dendron wouldn't be what it is today without help from the wonderful gardeners 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

If you would like to contribute (docs, code, finance, or advocacy), you can find instructions to do so [here](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/125c990b-6fe7-4ada-a65f-44cbde8b33f0.html).
See [here](https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron#contributors-) for the list of existing contributors.

## License

Dendron is distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.

See [LICENSE](https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/LICENSE.md) and [NOTICE](https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/NOTICE.md) for more information.

> The above license information is in regard to the Dendron software project in the `dendronhq/dendron` repository. When it comes to this repository, the `dendronhq/dendron-site` repository of documentation, this is released under the [MIT License](https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron-site/blob/master/LICENSE.md)

0.09

Engine

Enhancements

Fixes

Hierarchies

Add Go Up Hierarchy command

Markdown

Fixes

Pods

Enhancements

Workbench

Add Dendron tree view (docs)

Show cheatsheet of all commands (docs)

Near Instantaneous Lookup 🚀🚀🚀

Enhancements

Fixes

Community

Dendrologist

New Channels

Thank You