Dendron
Hierarchical note-taking and personal knowledge wiki
Dendron is an open-source, local-first note-taking tool that works as a hierarchical personal knowledge wiki on top of VS Code. It uses a structured naming scheme to organize thousands of Markdown notes and can publish them as a static site.
Key features
- Hierarchical note schema
- Local Markdown storage
- Static site publishing
- VS Code integration
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Mature project with 7.5k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
Trade-offs
- Tied to VS Code
- Learning curve for hierarchy
Dendron replaces
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