Principles and Values

Goals

Come up with governing principals and values for the Dendron product and the Dendron Community. This item is complete and documented under Principles

speed: Dendron should be the fastest way for people to access the information they care about
- lookup should finish in under a second
- all parts of our toolchain should optimize for speed
ownership: users should have full control of their data and it should be our first principle to maximize this as much as possibility
interoperability: it should be possible to import/export your data from/to any other source where a user might want to use their information
easy to learn, hard to master: see Bushnell's Law

open and inclusive: Dendron is a tool for all users that are interested in creating, building, using, and sharing knowledge. full stop.
documentation first: we don't just share what we learn in a chat at a moment in time. we make sure that the information remains accessible longer after we are gone. we do this by documenting useful information in dendron
have it in writing

You can't have something that is everything for everyone. While both characteristics matter, we agree to make these tradeoffs when necessary.

function over form
- in dendron, its more important for something to be useful than it is to be beautiful
- the focus in dendron should be about your content and the hierarchies that connect them
focus on speed
- we can't predict the future but its likely that no one will ever say that they wish their note taking experience to be slower
- when thinking about features and tool chain, bias for speed
focus on hierarchies
- while dendron supports backlinks and other forms of organizing notes, dendron's foundation is tooling to help you manage hierarchies
retrieval over insertion @kpathakota