Hello,
I am currently looking for an alternative to Dendron, as it is only a plugin for VS Code and is no longer being developed. There are also no mobile apps.
Unfortunately, however, I find Joplin’s structure impractical.
Notebook > Sub-notebook > Note
The first two are folders; the last one is the actual file.
In Dendron, the same system is implemented exclusively with Notes and sub-notes.
Note 1 > Sub-note 1 > Sub-note 2
Note 2 > Sub-note 2-1 > Sub-note 2-1
Note 3
In my view, this has several advantages.
The structure is fluid, as there is no need to decide what should be a folder or a file.
Consistent tree view (not first a notebook and then a file view)
Simple forward and backward linking (index of notes and subnotes)
Is there a way to implement this somehow or integrate it directly into Joplin?
Kind Regards
JCA
Sorry, this is not supported and would be a fundemantal change to support something like this.
You can manually add links to notes in other notes to forward and back link though.
Thats sad; manually for every document is just too much for an existing PKM.
I guess I have to keep looking for an alternative.
Thx
According to some posts like this one Have you ever considered to implement Dendron as an Obsidian plugin? · Issue #3344 · dendronhq/dendron · GitHub , if you use Obsidian, there is a plugin called breadcrumbs which allows browsing notes from a Dendron hierarchy, if you name the notes using the convention
Obsidian forces you to use their cloud service.
And repeated requests to simply grant access to the file system (iOS) were rejected on the grounds that this would not be technically possible.
Even after it was pointed out that this claim was technically incorrect, they continued to stick to their lie.
This company is a complete no-go for me.
Thank you for your genuine interest in helping.
It would probably be fairly easy to code a plugin for Joplin using AI, which would create a navigation view in a similar way to the breadcrumbs plugin using Dendron convensions (but it would not be the primary navigation, you would have to click a button to bring this up).
That just depends on whether that kind of approach would be sufficient for you and if someone is willing to Vibe code this plugin (or you could try yourself), but you likely would still have the issue of the plugin going out of support in future, unless the creator is committed to maintain the plugin