🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain
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Create a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.
Hugo Blox web framework empowers you with one of the most flexible note-taking capabilities out there.
Create a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Use it as your second brain, either publicly sharing your knowledge with your peers via your website, or via a private GitHub repository and password-protected site just for yourself.
Mindmaps
Hugo Blox supports a Markdown extension for mindmaps.
With this open format, can even edit your mindmaps in other popular tools such as Obsidian.
Simply insert a Markdown code block labelled as markmap
and optionally set the height of the mindmap as shown in the example below.
Mindmaps can be created by simply writing the items as a Markdown list within the markmap
code block, indenting each item to create as many sub-levels as you need:
```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
- Hugo Blox
- blox-plugins-netlify
- blox-plugins-netlify-cms
- blox-plugins-reveal
```
renders as
- Hugo Modules - Hugo Blox - blox-plugins-netlify - blox-plugins-netlify-cms - blox-plugins-reveal
Anh here’s a more advanced mindmap with formatting, code blocks, and math:
```markmap
- Mindmaps
- Links
- [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
- [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/hugo-blox-builder)
- Features
- Markdown formatting
- **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
- multiline
text
- `inline code`
-
```js
console.log('hello');
console.log('code block');
```
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
```
renders as
- Mindmaps - Links - [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/) - [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb) - [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/hugo-blox-builder) - Features - Markdown formatting - **inline** ~~text~~ *styles* - multiline text - `inline code` - ```js console.log('hello'); console.log('code block'); ``` - Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
Highlighting
Highlight important text with mark
:
<mark>Highlighted text</mark>
Callouts
Use callouts (aka asides, hints, or alerts) to draw attention to notes, tips, and warnings.
By wrapping a paragraph in {{% callout note %}} ... {{% /callout %}}
, it will render as an aside.
{{% callout note %}}
A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
{{% /callout %}}
renders as
Or use the warning
callout type so your readers don’t miss critical details: