A personal knowledge management tool that grows as you do.
Dendron is a local-first, markdown based, hierarchical note-taking application built on top of VSCode and friends.
Whether you organize your notes with PARA or Zettelkasten, link notes together like roam, or simply create notes in an ad-hoc manner, Dendron can help.
Think of it as a second brain to help you make sense of all the information you care about.
Some popular use cases include:
“We are overwhelmed with information and we don’t have the tools to properly index and filter through it. [The development of these tools, which] will give society access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages [should] be the first objective of our scientist” - Vannevar Bush, 1945
Every knowledge management tool today suffers from the problem of information overload - the more information you put in, the harder it becomes, as a human, to get any of it back out again.
The burning need for a tool that would not only overcome this problem but actually work better in the presence of more information was the basis of this project.
Dendron proposes hierarchies as the human solution to information overload. This is because there are few things as effective as a multi-level hiearchy for quickly filtering an overwhelming amount of information to something humans can work with. You can read this blog post for the extended rationale behind this.
In Dendron, you can quickly lookup related notes by their hierarchy. Hierarchies are simply . delimited filenames, similar to the hierarchies made by domain names (eg. github.com).