About this site

About this site

Aug 7, 2020

Whats is this?

This a blog. It is edited in emacs org. It is exported to MD by ox-hugo, and generated into a static site with Hudo, using the book theme. I wanted a way to make my many and various notes in my org journal more centralised, and more useful in the future. I like the book theme because it has a TOC. I am a fan of the Cornell note taking system.

Cornell notes have a focus on revision and skim-ability. I wanted a blog site where I had a TOC I could use like the left hand “keyword” column of this note system. That is to say. cover the content, and use the keywords or key questions to revise what was written. I often find myself writing my org journal headlines in question format. But the answer are forgotten soon after i have solved that problem and moved on to the next. I think If I had a output for these notes, it would encourage me to keep them neater. If they are neat they can form a support for my professional accumulation of knowledge, and the ability to do the thing. As it stands, even though I have done many amazing things once, I’m not sure I could do them again any easier or quicker.

All the content is kept in one file content-org/all-posts.org. It is exported with C-c C-e H A. Which triggers ox-Hugo to make a md file for each Headding in the file. how to link images

This guy helped me when I googled how to do this.

What now?

  • Learn more about how to format things in org files so I can output a pretty well formated blog
  • Get a better idead of how to controll the menues and things of the book theme
  • Make this integrated with netlify so i can just push changes to github and have it update the site. This helped. It is now online at amazing-beaver-3ff5b0.netlify.com and soon become.radioac.dev
  • Wait for tsl certificate to be issued.
  • make the “edit this page” link at bottom of template go to the org file.
  • add some more blog like features to the book blog pages
    • tags and things
    • next and previous etc
  • get the export on save thing working

Features I want.

  • Discovery
    • Other things from this tag
    • next and previous
    • category
    • Footnotes, or tool tips
    • move TOC to the left
    • Make a quiz mode.. like hide the content of the subheadings until clicked.
    • have a summary footer for each post..
      • be able to skim browse all the post by these sumaries

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