A digital garden is an intersection between a notebook and a blog.

I use Neuron for my notetaking to keep my ideas/notes in a Zettelkasten. Sometimes I write stuff that could be nice to share, other times not. However, Neuron supports tagging notes, so I got the idea that I could simply tag those notes I would like to share.

I got to work and got something up with the following setup:

  • Neuron can query your notes for tags with --tag.
    • There also exists a Docker image for neuron.
  • Hugo is a static site generator that I’ve wanted to try out for a while.
    • I’ve been eyeing the terminal theme for a while.
  • Python-Markdown has a plugin for reading YAML metadata of Markdown files.
    • Use this to manipulate Neuron metadata into something compatible with Hugo.
    • Wrote a Python script to do this.
      • Reads Neuron query data from stdin and manipulates metadata.
  • Deploy everything with Ansible.
    • Automation would be great in the future, but since I sync my notes with Syncthing for realtime reading between my devices I’ll have to find a file watcher.

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