Caching
Summary
Dendron caches meta data to avoid indexing eveyrthing on startup
Details
What is cached:
- frontmatter variables
- hash of note contents
- note links
- note anchors
- contentCache
What is NOT cached:
- vault (this is stored by absolute path, can be different if you start vault in different machines)
- parent/child relationships
- backlinks
The speedup comes from not parsing the frontmatter on subsequent restarts
Cache data is written in .dendron.cache.json in the same folder as the vault
Properties
version
Cache version. Currently set to 0 by default
notes
Dictionary of Note Props
links
Dictionary of note links
Example
Cache of tutorial workspace
{
"version": 0,
"notes": {
"root": {
"data": {
"id": "root",
"title": "root",
"vault": {
"fsPath": "vault"
},
"type": "note",
"desc": "",
"links": [],
"anchors": {},
"fname": "root",
"updated": 1605266684036,
"created": 1595961348801,
"parent": null,
"children": [],
"data": {},
"contentHash": "cf4622cd4e7841f93fb3051e6203c8e6",
"custom": {}
},
"hash": "cf4622cd4e7841f93fb3051e6203c8e6"
},
"tutorial": {
"data": {
"id": "01u0co3RYjOM1bjpc2qIU",
"title": "Tutorial",
"vault": {
"fsPath": "vault"
},
"type": "note",
"desc": "Tutorial Home Page",
"links": [
{
"type": "wiki",
"from": {
"fname": "tutorial",
"id": "01u0co3RYjOM1bjpc2qIU",
"vaultName": "vault"
},
"value": "tutorial.1-navigation-basics",
"alias": "tutorial.1-navigation-basics",
"position": {
"start": {
"line": 17,
"column": 14,
"offset": 852
},
"end": {
"line": 17,
"column": 46,
"offset": 884
},
"indent": []
},
"xvault": false,
"sameFile": false,
"to": {
"fname": "tutorial.1-navigation-basics"
}
}
// ...
],
"anchors": {
"welcome-to-dendron": {
"type": "header",
"text": "Welcome to Dendron",
"value": "welcome-to-dendron",
"line": 8,
"column": 0,
"depth": 2
}
// ...
},
"fname": "tutorial",
"updated": 1624864763249,
"created": 1624333847315,
"parent": null,
"children": [],
"data": {},
"contentHash": "354180fb8e78febbfa546ec58cf34ea5",
"custom": {}
},
"hash": "354180fb8e78febbfa546ec58cf34ea5"
}
// ...
}
}