The hierarchical note taking tool that grows as you do. Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It lets you easily create, find, and manage knowledge bases of any size.

Dendron is an open source note taking tool aimed at developers to make managing knowledge fast, efficient, and delightful by combining the simplicity of markdown with the power of VSCode.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 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](https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/... Dendron's philosophy on knowledge management - [A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking](https://blog.dendron.so/notes/3d... Dendron's methodology for note-taking - [Dendron Inc](https://blog.dendron.so/notes/N9... Dendron's business plan We also have an active discord community where we talk about all things knowledge management: https://discord.gg/AE3NRw9 Thanks for reading, Kevin

@kevin_s_lin thank you very much for dendron. I would recommend starters to watch a tutorial first to unlock full potential. before using. Also do you have plan to put built-in pdf exporter that understands frontmatter of Dendron and PDF generator that build a book like nexjs export? I have to use external tools to do that.

Dendron is a game changer, we replaced Confluence with it at our startup. Confluence wasn’t scaling well, made it difficult to find information, and difficult to reorganize. Dendron is unopinionated and is more of a library than a framework - but they offer opinions and sane defaults when you need them - it’s the result of strong software design decisions, reminiscent of react in my opinion. I have great faith in dendron and I’m very proud to be a part of the community and use them at my workplace and in my personal life to manage my information at scale no matter where it comes from.

@d1onysus Thanks @d1onysus :) We'll continue working hard to make sure that faith isn't misplaced!

@d1onysus We have to try using as confluence replacement.

I have been using Dendron since last 2 months and I have to say I am in love with the product. It is so amazing for Developers who want to keep a personal knowledge management and easier to store and find whatever piece of information you're looking for. I am so grateful to be a part of the Dendron community.

@shivayan_bora Thanks, we're grateful to have you :)

My favourite feature from Dendron is its flexible combination of a hierarchical structure with Schemas and a rizhomatic network that connects any note with any other note.

Great note taking app for software developers as they don't have to leave the editor and also markdown is highly portable and supported widely.

I used it on my vscode it was not easy to use and it broke when I tried to open my the dendron project again so I gave up on it

My favourite feature from Dendron is its flexible combination of a hierarchical structure with Schemas and a rizhomatic network that connects any note with any other note.

Great note taking app for software developers as they don't have to leave the editor and also markdown is highly portable and supported widely.

I used it on my vscode it was not easy to use and it broke when I tried to open my the dendron project again so I gave up on it

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