You can use Dendron with existing repositories of markdown notes.
Open the Command Bar in vscode and use the Dendron: Change Workspace command. It will ask you for a folder path as input.
Dendron will create a dendron.code-workspace file in specified directory and then open the workspace (if a workspace file already exists, it will use that). It will also create a root.md file in that directory if it doesn't exist (currently this is part of the internal working of dendron).
Dendron does not delete or overwrite any files during the Change Workspace operation.
Dendron automatically saves when you change focus (switch tabs or applications). You can also manually save using CMD+S or CTRL+S depending on your operating system
Dendron currently creates a root.md file and a root.schema.yml file where you initialize your vault. these files will be used in the future to automatically generate an index of everything in your vault. you may safely ignore them for now
Currently, you might see the following text added to the top of new notes. This is additional metadata that Dendron uses to manage your files and can be ignored.
---
id: 4407f75d-7334-47a5-9f19-18b458618136
title: dendron.lookup.hello
desc: ''
updated: 1594078624566
created: 1594078624566
data: {}
custom: {}
fname: dendron.lookup.hello
parent: null
children: []
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Hierarchies today are created automatically when dendron crawls your folder for . delimited file names and custom schema.yml files.