Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode
Dendron is a local-first, Markdown-based, hierarchical note taking tool. It is meant to help you create, organize, and collaborate on knowledge bases of any size.
Dendron – fast open-source note-taking in VSCode launched on March 17, 2021 with 237 votes, #84 of 3,696 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Dendron is an open-source note-taking system designed for VSCode that emphasizes speed and organization. It helps users create and manage large collections of interconnected notes through a hierarchical structure. The tool is built for developers and knowledge workers who want to take notes within their code editor, combining the familiarity of VSCode with dedicated note management features.
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From the sources
Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool . Think of it as a cache for everything that you care about - if you've spent more then five minutes solving a problem, you should never spent any more time solving the same exact problem. Dendron is a knowledge base built by and for developers and integrates natively with IDEs like VS Code and VSCodium . "We are overwhelmed with information and we don't have the tools to properly index and filter through it. [The development of these tools, which] will give society access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages [should] be the first objective of our scientist" - Vannevar Bush, 1945 Dendron builds on…from wiki.dendron.so
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