Outline
Dendron Seed Bank
Building a Public Registry for General Knowledge
Background - Product
Dendron is a hierarchal knowledge base that lets people organize and reference any amount of information. It is open source, local first, and built right into the IDE.
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Dendron does for knowledge what excel does for numbers - we help people create and enforce a consistent structure for all their notes.
Background - Speaker
- Worked at AWS for 5+ years
- Started a few SaaS Businesses
- Independent consulting
- Work on Dendron full time since April 2020
- Been thinking about this space for last decade
Intro to Dendron
- open source, star us on github
- plaintext markdown with some augmentations
- lookup information in hierarchies using "cmd+l"
- quick demo
Schemas and Hierarchy
- we have something called schemas
- there are a type system for how your notes are organized
- easy collapse things into one thing
Demo
- ...
Vaults
- Dendron partitions notes into vaults
- Each vault is different
- useful for work/personal
Seed Bank
- Public Registry for General Knowledge
- Think NPM but for docs
Why we built it
"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
Why we built it
- its hard to re-use knowledge
- most things locked away behind paywalls, ads or dense text
- subscription news letters - is this really the best way to stay up to date?
Why we built it
- think code
- modular
- composable
- everythingwe made is built out of it
Why we built it
- kept up to date
- just the facts
- comes with schemas about thinking of it
How it Works
- Initialize a vault as a seed
- Fill out details in
seed.yml - Use
dendron seed publishto share it with the world
How it Composes
- You can initialize your vault with seeds from many places
- You can reference content from seeds inside of your vault
- Remix content from different places
Details
- have proper attribution for all seeds
- use iframe to show references to respect SEO
Where we are
- We currently have seeds out
- Working on our publishing
Some Challenges
- versioning and dependency management
- building out a backlink tracker so you can see how influential your work is
- making the data in seeds both machine and human readable
- how to reconcile different schemas of the same domain
- dealing with duplicate content
Milestones
- put seed bank out of alpha in middle of August
- work with some partners to put out first party content
- take feedback from the community
QA
Backlinks