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Testing Dendron

After comparing dendron and foam I decided to try out dendron first. Reasons:

  1. Dendron has a comparison chapter [#LINK], which gives an impression of confidence.
  2. Dendron has more tutorial videos.
  3. Despite that Foam has more forks and like on GitHub.

Dendron capability test#

  1. Possibility to organize notes via folders. Too many notes with plain structure is too old school and hard to read all categories. (Solved: no folders, but there's a "tree view" of notes)
  2. Partial publish. It's possible to publish with Dendron-CLI. But to export, we cannot do the partial export for MkDocs for theming.

Currently (@2022-04-05) the best practice for adding a theme is to export then use MkDocs, or whatever users want.

What do I like in Dendron#

Hierarchy of notes; every page has an index.

Why I didn't move to Dendron#

  1. Publishing can only be either without theme or without unpublished note.