Principles
Summary
Design principles are used to guide product decisions and feature work.
Principles
Developer Centric
Dendron aims to create a world class developer experience for managing knowledge.
Our goal is to provide a tool with the efficiency of Vim, the extensibility of Emacs, and the approachability of VS Code.
What this means:
- Dendron features are text centric and composables
- Dendron provides the lowest friction interface for working with your knowledge base
- Dendron optimizes for efficiency, speed, and keyboard focused ux
- Dendron comes with sane defaults and the ability to customize to your liking
- Dendron can be extended along any dimension
Gradual Structure
Dendron extends Markdown with structural primitives to make it easier to manage at scale and tooling on top to work with this structure.
Different knowledge bases require different levels of structure - a PKM used for keeping daily journals is different than a company wide knowledge base used by thousands of developers.
Dendron works with any level of structure, meaning you can take free form notes when starting out and gradually layer on more structure as your knowledge base grows more.
Flexible and Consistent
Dendron is both flexible and consistent. It provides a consistent structure for all your notes and gives you the flexibility to change that structure.
In Dendron, you can refactor notes and Dendron will make sure that your PKM is consistent throughout. This means that you have the best of both worlds: a basic structure for the organization but the flexibility to change it.
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