Caching

One use of a knowledge base is that of a cache - quickly referencing information you have seen or worked with before.

The most important properties of an effective cache:

  • fast referencing (of an existing note)
  • fast writing (of a new note)
  • fast updating (of existing notes)

Dendron is ideally suited for this knowledge-as-a-cache use case.

  • Dendron lookups provide fast reading/writing of both new and existing notes
  • Dendron schemas help structure your knowledge even as you accumulate more notes

Example

You can see a public example of what this might look like on Kevin's project reference hierarchy. He keeps public reference notes on projects he's used.

Some things to note:

  • when using your notes as a cache, you might have duplicate content from other sites. be aware of copyright laws and check that you can re-publish said content
  • when re-publishing content, Google will penalize your site if you have duplicate content from other sites. you can tell Google to not index specific pages or hierarchies

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