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Multi Vault

Summary

Multi vault lets you create multiple vaults for a given workspace. Each vault is a folder that can contain any number of hierarchies.

Use Cases

  • for sensitive notes, multi-vault enables local only vaults vs vaults that can are synced on file sharing services like dropbox
  • for modularizing knowledge, multi-vault enables users to mix and match existing vaults depending on context
  • for federating and curating knowledge, multi-vault enables users to publish/subscribe to public vaults using protocols like git
  • for access control, multi-vault lets users configure specific vaults to be private which turns off publication and sharing of any notes inside said vault

Quickstart

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Concepts

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Workspace

In Dendron, your workspace is the root of where all your files are located. It's set when you first run Dendron: Initialize Workspace. The folder that contains your workspace is also known as your workspace root.

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Vaults

Your workspace is made up of vaults. A dendron vault stores a collection of related notes. If you're familiar with git, it's just like a code repo. By default, Dendron creates a vaults folder when you first initialize a workspace. All your notes are stored on a per vault basis.

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└── workspace
    ├── vault.main
    │   ├── foo.md
    │   ├── foo.one.md
    │   └── foo.two.md
    └── vault.secret (hypothetical)
        ├── secret.one.md
        └── secret.two.md

By default, when you look for notes in Dendron, it will search over all vaults.

A vault can be one of two types:

  • local
  • remote

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Hierarchies

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Within a vault, your notes are stored hierarchically as . delimited markdown files.

Below is a hypothetical hierarchy for a file tree:

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└── project1/
    ├── project1/designs/
    │   └── project1/designs/promotion.png
    ├── project1/paperwork/
    │   └── project1/paperwork/legal.md
    └── project1/tasks/
        ├── project1/tasks/task1.md
        └── project1/tasks/task2.md

The same hierarchy in Dendron would look like the following:

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├── project1.md
├── project1.designs.md
├── project1.designs.promotion.md
├── project1.paperwork.md
├── project1.paperwork.legal.md
├── project1.tasks.md
├── project1.tasks.task1.md
└── project1.tasks.task2.md

You can read more about hierarchies here

Topics

Commands

Vault Add

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Add a new vault to your workspace.

When you add a vault, you can choose between adding a local vault or a remote vault.

Vault Remove

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Remove a vault

Remove a vault from your workspace. Note that the underlying files wil not be deleted - the vault will lose its association with your workspace.

Lookup

Lookup supports multiple vaults. When using lookup to find a note, each search result is labeled with which vault it belongs to.

When creating a note in lookup, the currently opened note's vault is used as the vault for the new note.

Specify Vault Location when Creating a Note

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lookupConfirmVaultOnCreate

With this set, you can pick the vault for new notes.

To enable, add lookupConfirmVaultOnCreate: true in the dendron configuration. Instructions to do so below.

  1. Dendron: Configure (yaml)

  2. add lookupConfirmVaultOnCreate: true so your configuration looks like the following:
version: 0
...
lookupConfirmVaultOnCreate: true
  • Sample workspace

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└── Dendron
    |── .git
    |── dendron.code-workspace
    |── dendron.yml
    |── pods
    |── docs
    ├── vault1
    │   |── .git
    │   ├── foo.md
    │   └── foo.two.md
    └── vault2
        |── .git
        ├── foo.md
        └── foo.one.md

  • navigating to [[foo]] will result in a display prompting the user to select the vault to navigate to
  • navigating to [[foo.two]] will directly navigate to the note since it is unique across all vaults
  • navigating to [[vault1/foo]] will open foo in vault1
  • navigating to [[dendron://vault2/foo]] will open foo in vault1

Note References

Note references are vault specific When you make a reference, Dendron will include the note from the same note. You can create a reference to a note in a different vault by using cross vault links.

Publishing

You can publish from a multi-vault enabled workspace if you are using dendron-11ty to publish.

We have added a new configuration, duplicateNoteBehavior, which controls how Dendron handles duplicate notes across multiple vaults.

Preset Remote Vaults

When you add a remote vault, you can either add a vault using a custom git url or select from one of the pre-defined endpoints. Currently, Dendron provide the following remote vaults:

Version Control

For multi-vault, there are several approaches to version control. If you are using Git, you can either commit everything as one repo or version control your workspace and each vault separately as distinct repos.

If you use Vault: Add with a remote vault, Dendron will automatically add the remote properties to your dendron.yml file. See example below.

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vaults:
    -
        fsPath: dendron-vault
        remote:
            type: git
            url: 'git@github.com:kevinslin/dendron-vault.git'
        name: dendron
    -
        fsPath: yc-vault
        remote:
            type: git
            url: 'git@github.com:kevinslin/yc-vault.git'
        name: yc

Versioned controlled vaults will be auto-initialized when someone pulls in the workspace.

If you want to convert a local vault to a remote vault, you can follow the instructions here.

File Layout for Multi-Vault Workspace

.
└── Dendron
    ├── .git
    ├── dendron.code-workspace
    ├── dendron.yml
    ├── ...
    ├── vault1
    │   ├── .git
    │   ├── root.md
    │   └── ...
    └── vault2
        ├── .git
        ├── root.md
        └── ...

Examples

  • Sample Multi-Vault workspace