A new Notes section

One of the reasons for my Ghost/ActivityPub experiment was to try to better integrate both short and long posts. Since that didn’t pan out, I started thinking about how I might manage it with Hugo.

It turned out to be relatively easy. I added a /content/notes folder. Then I made a tweaked Hugo list template that doesn’t render a title and instead displays the entire post content rather than just a summary. And finally, I added a custom RSS feed just for notes.

To create new notes I use a small Emacs lisp function I wrote which creates the proper folders and Markdown file and populates the YAML front matter. This makes posting quick notes quick and easy.

Here’s the Notes page. /notes.

Everything that goes in /notes is cross-posted to Mastodon using EchoFeed. All in all, I like how it works.