About this site.

I needed a place to dump hypertext and occasionally images. This is that!

This site is generated with Ochrs and written primarily in Obsidian. It contains my personal notes, blog and archive. It is open source.

Structure

This site has several overlapping structures, and I'd like to be consistent about how I use them. This section is an attempt to codify that. Each structure exists in the Obsidian version of this site and the HTML version.

There is:

• Tree directory structure
  • e.g. Projects>Ochrs>Ochrs Syntax
  • each page can only belong to 1 directory
  • in the Obsidian vault this site is written in, this is the directory structure of the Markdown files
  • in the HTML version of this site, this is the navigation that can be done using the links in the header
• Backlinks
  • these are arbitrary bidirectional links that form a network of pages within the wiki
  • work the same in Obsidian and HTML
• Tags
  • e.g. #relics, #venting
  • each page can have many tags
  • these use the Obsidian YAML tags syntax, can be searched
  • in HTML these are all collected on the tags page
  • if a page exists with the same name as a tag, that tag is automatically applied to that page and it's children in the HTML version
• Chronological feeds
  • e.g. Posts
  • these pages contain a list of other pages that have a given tag (such as #posts) and a publish date, ordered chronologically
  • these are only visible in the HTML version of the site
  • each of these has a corresponding RSS feed
  • sort of just tags that have been elevated to feed status
  • basing this on tags means that any page can be included anywhere in the directory structure, and any page can be included in many feeds simultaneously

How I want to use these:

• Tree directory structure
  • says what a page is
  • e.g. pages in Archive>Problems are archived solutions to problems I've had, no matter their topic
• Backlinks
  • ad-hoc links between pages, more of a method of random exploration than navigation
  • the kind of links you'd only want to follow if you actually were reading the content of the page
• Tags
  • says what topics a page covers
  • any topic that is common enough that a person may want to see all of the writing on a particular topic no matter what the page is
  • e.g. the #venting tag contains all pages that contain venting, the #unix tag contains all pages that are related to Unix including notes, problems+solutions, essays
• Chronological feeds
  • only to elevate tags to create a blog-style interface
  • e.g. Posts

Yes I know that all you need is links.