As far as I know both Dendron and Foam stitch together a bunch of plug/play VSC extensions, so it should be interchangeable.
I liked Dendron more, as it seemed a more curated experience - the creator has a plan and is hard at work to make his "customers" happy.
"Dendron, the client, is free and will always remain free. It is also open source so anyone is free to make their own fork of Dendron.
That being said, I'm all in on Dendron and this is my full time gig. I want to make sure that developing Dendron remains sustainable. To that end, I plan on introducing value add server side functionality that folks may pay for."
PS: Why not switch to Emacs? It will only take a measly year to get comfortable! :)
For VSC there is also Dendron [1], which I found nicer than Foam.
After lots of trial/error and at the end of the rabbit hole I found Emacs with org-roam [2].
It has a steep learning-curve and often seems outdated, but it is also very powerful, has VIM hotkeys, and allows me to create the academic workflow I want - so far I can automatically create a note from my Zotero .bib library, fill it based on a template and the insert all my annotations from the associated PDF. Afterwards I also semi-automatically extract the references from that PDF, insert them into the annotations and then start to link everything into my Zettelkasten system.
Sometimes I wish I just stayed with VSCode/Markdown, but then I remember that I can now put "elisp" on my resumee :)
Overall I think that the "new" note-taking/Zettelkasten-systems is very cool and useful, but I wish someone would come along and create "the next big thing" which in my opinion is multi-dimensional notes.
Tiddlywiki/Tiddlyroam [4,5], TheBrain[6] and even Scrivener [7] seem like a step in the right direction, but they also make some other things overly complicated (convoluted UI, no plug/play export, bad editors, ...).
I want to be able to freely take notes on my computer the same way I can do on paper, and then be able to "super-charge" them by linking, aggregating, searching them. At the moment notes are "one-dimensional", i.e. I can only write from top to bottom. Compare it to paper where I can freely change my style of writing, add drawing, annotations, change directions, ... Writing on the computer just feels very restricting.
I don't want to comment on the content, but on the form.
In my opinion there are two reasons to write such an article:
a) To vent
b) To get a message around
This article is a great and powerful vent (which also makes sense in the context of "healing journey"), but it does a terrible job at getting a message across.
Bold messages lose their impact if there are more bold messages than normal text. Also the article is missing a clear red line - I felt myself skipping multiple paragraphs and not missing out on any content.
I would be very much interested if the writer could re-write their vent into a powerful message.
This might also be a chance (regarding the "healing journey") to re-work the happenings and bring the "this is what happened!!!" into a "THIS is what happened", in the same way an emergency-centre operator deals with emergency calls. Focus on the facts, not the feelings.
If you use complicated language, there are mainly three reasons:
- You don't understand what you are talking about
- You don't want to be understood
- You want to sound smart
I believe that an explanation should go straight to the core. If you truly understood something, it should be of no problem to explain it to your in-laws. (Ironically, this sentence is condescending..)
Overall, I don't think I ever thought that someone is condescending when they went to honestly explain something to me.
But it depends on the circumstances. Making a mistake and getting someone to explode "why don't you understand this simple thing?!" and then having them explain it to you is a miserable experience, for everyone involved.
I liked Dendron more, as it seemed a more curated experience - the creator has a plan and is hard at work to make his "customers" happy.
"Dendron, the client, is free and will always remain free. It is also open source so anyone is free to make their own fork of Dendron.
That being said, I'm all in on Dendron and this is my full time gig. I want to make sure that developing Dendron remains sustainable. To that end, I plan on introducing value add server side functionality that folks may pay for."
PS: Why not switch to Emacs? It will only take a measly year to get comfortable! :)