<h1 id="mission">Mission<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#mission"></a></h1>
Dendron helps humans organize, reference, and work with any amount of knowledge.
We provide an open-source, local-first, markdown-based note-taking tool that helps developers work with notes like they do with code.
Dendron borrows heavily from prior work in programming languages and developer tooling (which help developers organize and reference millions of lines of code) and applies the same principles to general knowledge.
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"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
Vannevar Bush - originator of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex">memex</a>
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We are on a journey to help humans take command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. We invite you to be part of the journey!
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Backlinks
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<li><a href="/notes/b89ba854-72fb-4ebc-a8a0-55960b89e9dc">Values</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/CvDHcHlyKCC6h4ItFUnLF">Common</a></li>
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Mission

dendron.handbook


Welcome to the Dendron handbook. This handbook is heavily inspired by the [gitlab handbook](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook). 

It documents everything we stand for and everything we are working towards. It is a living document, a work in progress that will change and grow as we do.
