 Resources from Ian Jones in 2021

Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment (IDE) built and maintained by Microsoft. It is offered free of charge.

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Create a Backlink to a Note in Dendron

To create a note in Dendron, we use the look up window. This modal pop up defaults to a scratch note but we want to create a note called `dendron.note.md`.

You delete the scratch text and enter `dendron`. From here, you will see all of the notes that are associated with this hierarchy. Now you can type `dendron.note` to create a new markdown file.

This note is a child note of `dendron` and a sibling note of `dendron.welcome`.

Create a new note using Dendrons look up tool

Dendron has baked in support for creating daily notes. This is a place where you can take quick notes on something or if you don't know where to put a note yet. 

You can use `CMD + SHIFT + I` to create a daily note. 

These notes default to `daily.journal.yyyy.mm.dd` hierarchy.

Create a daily note with Dendron

You can use `CMD+L` to look up a note in the same hierarchy that you are currently in. 

If you know the note you want to create or find is in the same hierarchy tree, this is a fast way to find it.

Quick Note Look up in Dendron

Dendron Tree View is a side panel in VSCode that renders a folder structure of your notes based on your hierarchies. 

Since all your notes are in a single flat file, Dendron has created a Tree View to render a collapsable folder like view for your notes.

Dendron Tree View

Sometimes you have text in a file you want to move to a new file, Dendron supports this by using the same lookup command `CMD + SHIFT + S`.

You then have to select the `Selection Extraction` option in the lookup menu. This will take the selected text and move it to the new note. 

Extract text from a large note in Dendron

You can link to a new note from selected text with `CMD + SHIFT + S`.

This is useful for when you want to take notes on a todo that you are working on or you discover that there are sub tasks to the task you are doing.

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