Incompatible Extensions

Summary

Over the course of Dendron's existence, we have been making note of VSCode extensions that can cause issues when used with Dendron. These are extensions that were either reported by our community members, or have been identified by the Dendron team.

To audit whether you may be running incompatible extensions, run Dendron: Doctor and select findIncompatibleExtensions.

If you find an extension that is not described here but may conflict with Dendron, please let us know.

Details

Dendron strives to make your notes compatible with a lot of other note taking tools available. We also put great effort in building a tool that can complement other tools in the Extensions Marketplace so that users can have a richer note taking experience.

To facilitate maximum compatibility, Dendron builds on top of standard Markdown. Unfortunately, this means users will eventually run into incompatible behaviors if they use another tool that also builds on top of Markdown concurrently.

It is often not immediately obvious why the incompatible behavior is happening, and require the users to use VSCode's extension bisect feature to detect which extensions are incompatible with Dendron.

If you think the incompatibility listed here are resolved, or want them resolved so they could be used along with Dendron, please leave us an issue for a request of the feature that you want to see natively supported in Dendron, or a request to resolve the issue with a particular extension.

Please note that these are wonderful extensions that have different takes on how to empower users with convenient tools to manipulate Markdown / notes and is only listed here for the ease of troubleshooting of issues that happens while used with Dendron concurrently.

Markdown All in One

extension id: yzhang.markdown-all-in-one

This extension provides various keyboard shortcuts, auto completion, and other utilities for writing Markdown.

This extension has a few keybinding conflict with Dendron, which can be resolved by re-mapping either Dendron's keybinding or Markdown All in One's keybinding.

See Detecting keybinding conflicts for more details.

This extension has also been known to have conflicting behavior with VSCode's snippet feature that Dendron utilize.

Markdown All in One (for web)

extension id: fantasy.markdown-all-in-one-for-web

This extensions is a forked version of Markdown All in One.

This extension has identical issues with the upstream version.

Foam

extension id: foam.foam-vscode

Foam is a Markdown based note-taking tool similar to Dendron.

Foam and Dendron differs in how the notes are parsed and how metadata is attached to the note. This will cause problems for both extensions and there will be numerous features around manipulating Markdown that are incompatible and overlapping. You may see multiple panels with the same name in the explorer, since each extension contributes them separately.