Show HN: Dendron – open-source, local first, anti-roam note-taking tool

[Dendron](https://dendron.so) is meant to be the fastest way for people to create, reference, and collaborate on knowledge. It is based on a [hierarchal first approach to note taking](https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/3dd58f62-fee5-4f93-b9f1-b0f0...).

Hierarchy first means that Dendron helps you effortlessly create, manage, and reference your notes through flexible hierarchies. I call it anti-roam because instead of having every note be everywhere, every note is exactly in one well defined place (which you can change over time).

You can read about our principles [here](https:/dendron.so/notes/7fcebd7d-6411-4c9d-8baf-65629dc018a1.html)

I use Dendron to manage a corpus of 20k+ markdown notes. When I need to lookup information inside Dendron, I know I can either find it in a few seconds, or if I don't, to know for certain that it is not there. This is an incredibly empowering feeling of control in an age of information overload and it is an ability I want to give to every person in the world.

I still have a hard time understanding why there needs to be a markdown preview window occupying space. When you go back to your notes will you read the rendered version or just read the markdown? Maybe I am looking for wysiwyg.

How is this different from Foam(https://github.com/foambubble/foam)

How’s the vim emulation in VSCode? I always miss being able to use vim in these sorts of knowledge management systems. I’m using Obsidian right now, which has ok, very basic vi emulation, but would love something that lets me use more advanced vim-fu.

I like hierarchical note taking. I use Zim-wiki which is plain text and actually working with folders and text files. I wonder how this compares, I don't use vscode though.