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I have been using Hugo for my public notes. I built a theme called connectome a while ago. This theme has been serving as my note-taking theme.

When building my notes website on data science, I have noticed many problems with the connectome theme. And today, I fixed most of the problems. The connectome theme deserves some visibility now.

If you are using Hugo and would like to build a website for connected notes, like this one I have https://datumorphism.leima.is/ , the Hugo connectome theme can help a bit.

The Connectome Theme: https://github.com/kausalflow/connectome
A template one could use to bootstrap a new website: https://github.com/kausalflow/hugo-connectome-theme-demo
Tutorials: https://hugo-connectome.kausalflow.com/projects/tutorials/
Real-world example: https://datumorphism.leima.is/

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If you would like to know more about how it was done, the idea is quite simple. Before we move on, one FAQ I got is, why Hugo. The answer is simple, speed.

The key components of the connectome theme are:

- automated backlinks, and
- a graph visualization of the whole notebook.

Behind the scene, the heart of the theme is a metadata file that describes the connections between the notes.

For each note, we use the metadata to get all the notes that links to the current note, and build backlinks based on the metadata.

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I drafted a new release of the Hugo Connectome theme.

I like the command palette in VSCode. It is fast and accurate. So I added a command palette to the Hugo Connectome theme to help us navigate the notes and links.

Now we can use the command palette to navigate to backlinks, out links, references, and more.

See it in action:
https://datumorphism.leima.is/wiki/time-series/state-space-models/
Use Command+K or Windows+K to activate the command palette.

- Type in search to search for notes.
- Type in Note ID to copy the current note id to the clipboard.
- Type in graph to see the graph view of all the notes.
- Type in references to go to references.
- Type in backlinks to select from backlinks to navigate to.
- Type in links to select from all outgoing links to navigate to.

Release:
https://github.com/kausalflow/connectome/releases/tag/0.1.1

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Read on reddit about this but never really looked into details. It is actually amazing.

Just watch the video in readme.

https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT

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I liked Fig a lot. It was mostly an install and forget extension. Now Amazon bought the company, and it is part of the infamous codewhisper.

Do you have an alternative for Fig? I don't like Warp because it implements a lot of distractions.

https://fig.io/