Is this project still maintained?

[jangroth]

@patleeman

I'm afraid the answer might be 'no', given that it's been over a year since the last commit...

I would appreciate a short response, I believe this plugin has a decent number of users and it'll be good for people to understand where this project is at.

Thanks very much (also for implementing the plugin in the first place!)

[patleeman]

@jangroth thanks for reaching out. I unfortunately don't have the time to maintain this anymore.

[Valindo]

Hey @patleeman , thank you for building this beautiful and simple note taking extension.
Wondering if you are open to me helping you maintain this, I love this extension and willing to help.

[jangroth]

@patleeman - with 40,000+ active installation, it would be great if you could at least consider allowing others to step up maintaining this awesome project. Thanks!

[benedictjohannes]

I have several feature request/suggestion such as tree view allowing right click a folder and have the option to add new notes similar to the File Explorer side pane.

@patleeman if you can allow more maintainers, that would allow for more new features for this extension. I'm loving it and would be thrilled to see if it can see new development.

[jangroth]

Alternatively, there's the option to fork this repo to get development going again... 🤔

[Valindo]

@jangroth looks like that would be the way to go, I've emailed the owner and no response as well.
Let me know if you are considering forking the repo, I would love to help.

[jangroth]

@Valindo - I'm not a JavaScript developer unfortunately, so I'm not a big help here... 😞

Let's leave this thread open, maybe others end up here and we can get some momentum into this.

[canpolat]

As far as I know @jozefs created a fork and did some improvements in the code base (including migrating to TypeScript). I even created an issue on his project asking him to fork this repo. He did not seem very interested by then, but who knows...

• https://github.com/jozefs/VSNotes
• Proposal: Fork VS Notes jozefs/VSNotes#1 (comment)

[jozefs]

@canpolat Apologies for not responding earlier. I have indeed created a fork and modernised the code base to make it easier to maintain and add new features to. My main motivation was to add a few features I needed and fix a few bugs that I encountered while evaluating VSNotes. However it was always my intention to contribute the changes back to VSNotes as I am not willing to maintain a fork on my own. I would have been very happy to help maintain VSNotes itself and have reached out to the author directly to discuss this. He has not replied to me at all and based on that I am assuming that this project is currently unmaintained. Based on all of the above I then eventually stopped using VSNotes completely.

[canpolat]

@jozefs Thank you for the response. I have also stopped using VSNotes. I saw an interest in forking the code base and wanted to point them to your fork. Perhaps they can build on top of your work.

[jozefs]

If there's any interest to build on top of my fork, I would be happy to spend a bit of time to hand over/facilitate.

[jangroth]

I feel Dendron is the VSCode note taking plugin that I always hoped for. Also, unlike this project, it's not dead :-)

[NandaKishorJeripothula]

@jozefs can we preview your version in vscode?

[jozefs]

Yes, the package is published in my fork's releases. Please note though that it's been almost two years since I last used it and it may have issues with current versions of VSCode.