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Hey Product Hunt π
Founder here. I started Dendron because I wanted a solution that could help me find the information I already had.
I was tired of looking up the same stack overflow solution for a problem I had already encountered and wanted a tool that could help me externalize information in such a way that made it easy to find again later.
After spending years experimenting with different systems, I came to realize that having a *well-structured organization* for knowledge was the only way I could consistently find things. It’s not a radical concept in itself but requires a lot of work from the individual to make it work.
Dendron enables knowledge management at scale by helping users organize their knowledge, not through good intentions, but with the aid of software. It lets you create flexible hierarchies that can be consistently applied and also refactored so that you can slowly evolve the structure of your knowledge base over time. Dendron borrows heavily from prior work in developer tooling and programming languages, taking concepts like type systems and schemas and applying them to general knowledge.
Dendron is available as both a VSCode/VSCodium plugin as well as a CLI. All notes are stored locally and can also be selectively published as a static site using our open-source nextjs template. You can use Dendron standalone or in the same workspace where you keep your code – if you choose the latter, you can link to code files inside of Dendron and vice versa!
You can learn more about Dendron and our approach to knowledge management via the following links:
– [It’s Not You – It’s Your Knowledge Base](www.kevinslin.com/notes/… Dendron’s philosophy on knowledge management
– [A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking](blog.dendron.so/notes/3d… Dendron’s methodology for note-taking
– [Dendron Inc](blog.dendron.so/notes/N9… Dendron’s business plan
We also have an active discord community where we talk about all things knowledge management: discord.gg/AE3NRw9
Thanks for reading,
Kevin
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β Kevin S Lin
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