# dendronhq/dendron

The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!

Repository: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dendron
Homepage: https://wiki.dendron.so
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: pkm, markdown, markdown-editor, vscode, zettelkasten, dendron
Last push: 2025-11-13T05:31:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 52, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2261, "days_push": 293, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7464, forks 303 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:00.049130+00:00)

## What it is
Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based personal knowledge management (PKM) tool built for developers, integrating natively with VS Code and VSCodium. It adds hierarchical note-taking, lookup, and retrieval features that scale to very large knowledge bases. Active development has ceased and the project is in maintenance-only mode.

## Use cases
- take hierarchical markdown notes in vscode
- manage a zettelkasten knowledge base
- organize and retrieve tens of thousands of notes
- publish a knowledge base as a static site
- keep a local-first developer second brain
- manage daily journals and meeting notes

## When to choose
- you live in VS Code and want notes as plain markdown files
- your knowledge base is large and needs hierarchical structure and fast lookup
- you want local-first notes with git-friendly storage

## When to avoid
- you need actively developed software with new features and support
- you want a graphical, non-IDE note-taking app
- you need mobile-first or collaborative real-time editing

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, markdown, search-engine, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors, documentation
- platform: editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: pkm, note-taking, zettelkasten, vscode-extension, local-first, knowledge-management, desktop

## Member repositories
- dendronhq/dendron (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:00.049130+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:37:38.131290+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:00.049130+00:00, sha 8f02c2b5d6a7)
  - homepage: https://wiki.dendron.so (fetched 2026-08-29T08:33:13.720284+00:00, sha a7a1d3fce8db)
  - site_page: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e80b558 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:33:13.729638+00:00, sha 527066dc7b7f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.