Tools

A collection of some tools I use

Knowledge Management

Dendron: almost everything
evernote: web clipper
google keep: mobile notes writer
ia writer/git journal: private notes mobile reader
published dendron notes via safari : public notes, mobile reader
airtable: tracking finances
alfred: app launcher

Dendron Setup

I keep 3 versions of vscode (vscode, vscode insider, vscodium)
I have a mac so I usually have two windows of each version running at any time
- this is because CMD+~ lets you toggle btw two different windows of the same program
each vscode version also has a custom keyboard shortcut which I've configured using alfred
vscode versions:
- vscode
  - used for coding
- vscode insider
  - two windows, one focused on dendron specific notes and one for personal notes
    - both windows use the same vault but different workspaces (this is because vscode does not let you have multiple windows open to the same workspace)
    - because you can define a custom path (https://dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def4b4865.html) for your vault, you can still point two workspaces to the same vault
  - vscodium
    - two windows, one focused on https://dendron.so documentation (use as reference as well as to update) and another for an alternate workspace i'm working on (eg. https://aws.dendron.so)
the idea here is that I can access any note in any workspace using at most, two keyboard shortcuts.

Workspace and Vaults

file structure

.
├── workspace
│   ├── kevin-personal
│   └── kevin-work
└── vaults
    ├── kevin-public
    ├── kevin-blog
    ├── kevin-private
    ├── people
    ├── org-private
    ├── org-admin
    └── ...

sample dendron.yml from kevin-workspace

vaults:
  - fsPath: ../../vaults/kevin-public
  - fsPath: ../../vaults/kevin-private
  - fsPath: ...

sample `dendron.code-workspace

        {
            "path": "../../vaults/kevin-public"
        },
        {
            "path": "../../vaults/kevin-private"
        },

Windows

Programs
- Firefox & Chrome: Browsers
- Launchy: Program launcher

CLI

ncdu: visualize du command