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Dendron

Hierarchical note-taking and personal knowledge wiki

Wikis & Documentation ★ 7.5k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

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.

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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

Is Dendron secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Dendron's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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