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todo

public todo? could be kinda fun

• date epoch
• singles (one page bucket)
  • maybe a playlist player down the line
    • audio is easy just do it
• tarot stickers ! (buy them???)
  • making them !
  • sell them
• better upload
  • sshfs/rsync
  • nice
  • have it not check rly big ones ?

• organize links
  • reading/watching/playing list?
  • media log/review blog ? sub-blog to "blog" ??
  • break the conditional stuff into separate files
• sketchbook projects ??
• select tag combos!
  • does this solve subfolder collection automation
  • no in the same way i dont want to do projects-as-tags
• rotating header images ? scriptless rotating header images ? conditional header images ?
• wolfsmilk
  • port shows page
• tarot
  • uploaded !
  • svgs
    • overlapping center cross !
  • lite mode
  • bring it inside here somewhat
• image processing
  • woof i kinda didnt like that metalsmith-imagemin install
    • just use sharp or something directly ?
      • fuk yea

  • keep originals ? more archival .. this is not an archive but yk
    • are these two different things
  • more sizes, sets, all that shit
    • gallery images are a different thing ? have captions, keep fullsizes ... entered via shortcode ... need inplace for this. have local tags
• image styling
  • honestly already pretty good ..
  • ooh, break them out to the side when its really wide
    • general "two-column" big layout ... auxiliary "second column" for use in:
      • listing more pages
      • blabbing more words
      • inline pics next door
• default basename fallback titles
• comment the template
  • without fucking up the whitespace
  • make a copy ?
    • oooooh, make a template whitespace remover plugin !
      • this is in .. nunjucks .....

• top breadcrumbs !
  • most of it !
  • make it a proper list with items, maybe a nav

done

• passthru copy
  • recursive dirs
    • sortaa .... lik eit works, the first time, but u gotta delete the build versoin if you change stuff .....
    • honestly rewrite this whole thing to be better sync promise blabla
    • i think i did this
  • skip on newer
    • use the stats !
  • haha another win this fucks
  • not even metalsmith, just node fs
  • redo to skip on identical size?
    • add this as an option?
    • add this as a second check before skipping?
      • file is older BUT not same size, copying
    • whatever
• blogroll
  • what did she mean by this
  • paginate
• preview breadcrumbs
  • tag pages only ?
  • make them the tiles ?
    • this is how it used to be right
• listed pages sort by mod date
• snippets ignore pictures (and headers? and .. other stuff ... ? )
• style the form better
• fix birth times and mod times
  • pass them in from the md files on their own metadata object at the beginning
• redesign homepage
  • very minimal ? no feed a'tall ?
    • tried this, didnt like it
• escape tags inside code blocks
  • bluh
  • redo tags as a markdown plugin !?!
    • (yes bitch)
• ok. two new possibilities for tag ish sort of features
  1. when a subtag matches a tag, add the tag
     • pretty straightforward
     • just physically stick it inline next to the header and say "see also:"
     • maybe redundant with 2?
     • nah
  2. tag indeces
     • index each tag by occurrance in each page on that page
     • that way you can link right to the entry
     • most tags only appear once or twice
     • and you can just link right to them right now with those text fragment thingies ???

• ringblog
• do something about the layout lkjfds
  • it works fine but its so annoying to edit
  • make a whitespace remover
    • this is in nunjucks already you fool. its like minus signs or something
• snowday page
• subfolder collection automation !
  • and default sort ! can defaults do all this ?
• rss
  • updates feed!
  • per tag feeds
  • make it atom
• add nofollow to links page
• photos! (also gallery)
• permalinks everywhere
  • table of contents by header/(block?)
• one point o (ongoing in rhodo-todo)
  • move this to rhodo-todo
  • single definitive point of identity for each page
    • ehhhh pretty much
    • i think this is called a "primary key" in a database
    • this should be the tagslug, or the url slug including the path, or ..
    • its the tagslug. theres auto permalink stuff now
  • unify names of things
    • e.g. pagetag vs tagslug. folder vs collection vs tag.
    • replace all instances of pagetag with tagslug
    • replace all instances of collection with tag (?) (yes)
      • a tag is the thing in the file. a collection is a list of files with the tag in them. and also the kind of thing that happens with subfolders.
• fix checkboxes
• autofolders
  • "autofolders/autopages" new name of "tagpages" plugin (?)
    • yes, moved to refactor notes
  • make collections
    • !
  • make it recursive (only goes one deep rn)
• give rhodo its own todo in the repo
  • rhodo repo todo :)
• pagetag slug fallback
  • just make the slug the pagetag for every page ? just before it happens ?
• reorganize the repos entirely
  • make aloe dot gay just the src & options bits and actually use rhodo on it
    • install local rhodo the same way it is in testing/template
  • make rhodo dev repo with no server and with all the typescript
  • make the js visible in there and then its just also the node package? "dev repo" and just "the repo" are not separate ?
  • OR: keep them separate, keep the server out of it, and .. why ? just do it the first way tbh.

• fix galleries:
  • remove bucket type and functionality (? create "gallery" type?)
  • make it make thumbnails for all images not just ones with no alt text
    • but only on gallery type page ? (yes)
• css userstyle location in options
• add fiveserver config
• add server to watch task
  • add toggle to turn it off
    • as a cli flag!
• make it say rhodochrosite in the footer
• options.json
  • mainwidth
  • collopts (?)
    • make this less painful
    • could just make it automatically do every folder (would this break anything? if not its preferable)
      • maybe it isnt actually preferable ! or maybe the ideal is actually on-by-default but you can turn it off
      • if folder has md file besides index.md collection object with folder title . how do see folders . path ? files ?
  • umm
• userstyles.css
  • end of cascade
• passthru copies
  • ugh ..
  • metalsmith ignore variable and passthru variable are the same
• autogen map page, tags page, rss page, updates page, now page, allpage
• two basic workflows
  • 1:
    • npm i rhodochrosite
    • rhodo build(/watch ???) (srcdir?)
      • learn to make npm cli commands?
    • (it spits out a build folder in the working dir)
    • the working dir will also have:
      • config file (dot ... json?) (needs provided? optional?)
        • mainwidth
        • feature toggles?
        • site title
        • permalink root
      • node whatevers
      • git whatevers if the person is doing that
      • src dir
      • assets dir
        • banner image
        • fonts
        • background image ?
      • user styles (color theme etc) (needs provided? optional?)
  • 2:
    • git clone rhodo-template
    • (start editing example files)
    • node index.js? (ts execute) index.ts ? ummmm
• drawings (one page gallery)
  • !!!
• button page
• local tags !
  • so like. take the singles bucket. if i localtag a single ##mybass, itll
    1. tag the bucket #mybass
    2. make a singles/tags/mybass page with that single on it (or add it to the local tags array if there already is one.)
  • its like theyre scoped kind of
  • ok. so like. if im making a gallery page. i type a bunch of markdown links. and in the caption i put a bunch of localtags. maybe with double hashtags ??? or maybe with just single ones. which would make them true-tags as well. which is a decision i have to make ... idk, maybe i dont want them to escape. cause then i could easily make ones functionally escape anyway by just manually adding the corresponding true-tag to the page. and then have cozy hidden character tags that arent in the tags list. so ok, i type a double hashtag, write that out of my regex thingy, and then a plugin much like inlinetaglinks makes it a link to an index, which is rendered at the bottom of the page by a plugin much like listpages or whatever that ones called. the index is like, a list where it goes
    • ##jenny
      • (drawing 1 with jenny tag)
      • (drawing 2 with jenny tag)
    • ##abby
      • (drawing 1 with abby)

  and so forth. and so the links are just anchor links to the list item that corresponds to the tag , and then the drawing links are anchor links back to the drawings ! - they have to refer to parents in ULs i think. id like to put the tags on a sub-item in likelinks, for example.

• videos? (one page bucket)
• code highlighting
  • https://highlightjs.org/
    • as a marked option !!
  • hook it up to that stylesheet
  • re-add snippets to works
• optional frontmatter dates, fall back to mtimes
• order collections by newness
  • done, but too manually
  • like even just by default in every list tbh
  • well . .
  • something like a global blogroll, thats the important part. a "latests posts" thing. straightforward. maybe just the manual update tag. but like, front page or at least linked straight from. i kind of like it being "the front page's list" tho now that i say it.
• drafts
  • make an actual environment variable for dev instead of it checking for there not being one lol
    • its actually fine that it does this
• buckets (for e.g. singles)
  • if type = bucket match parent dir /* !*.html list it
• backlinks !?!???!
  • maybe not for this project but . it would be fun as hell doing something with backlinks.
  • heres the thing. tags already are backinked links. tags are two way links and links are one way links.

• what if projects were just tags instead of subfolder collections
  • nah
  • then all posts are just actual blog posts and theyre tagged by project
  • + elegant
  • + feels more correct
  • + kind of eliminates some need to consolidate things
  • - betrays bundles of resources structure . if a project has pictures theyre in blog now - this almost might be a good enough reason
  • - kind of adds some need to separate things - + but thats more what the tag shit is good at
• prod version stuffs
  • nice !
  • guestbook
    • just fuckin worked. fantastic
  • set env variable to prod (dont publish drafts)
    • do this some other way actually ? simplify the git thing ?
  • test force trailing slashes
    • works
  • how are you gonna upload it and stuff
    • just copy files ???
    • rsync or something
      • look at the old buildt.sh
• new header image (squart)
• (content/projects/)this website
• put more content in public
  • eh?
  • rethink this whole strat a little
  • its actually kinda working fine now
• hrrrhrhrmrm relative links and trailing slashes
  • tested it albeit after launch. it works lol. im comfy with how im using them now
  • it makes me so itchy
  • use refs instead? or in-place?
  • force trailing slashes on the server? (this might be the most elegant in a brutish way)
  • so test it (good excuse to get that server set back up anyway, are we hosting there?)
    • yes prolly, guestbook and all that
  • set in permalinks, resolved to use in links i type . they are directories
• update tag in update posts
  • this is more of a reminder than a todo
• fuckin tags and stuff
  • fuuuuuuuuuuck yeeeeesssssssssss
  • inline tags
    • use an actual "tags" property and then put it in collections
      • this way you can use tags for other stuff and like, it wont say every blog post is tagged with "blog" in the linedate for example
      • i actually like that the subfolder collections are in there. it simplifies things and you dont really need preview breadcrumbs that way
      • maybe do it anyway and leave the subdirs in there just so's you can type "tags" in the metadata
  • automatic tag pages (?)
    • yes, should be pretty easy,
  • automatic title matching for user generated pages
    • if i make /tags/thoughtblobbing.md i want it to list the tags without me making a new layout and typing out collections dot thoughtblobbing. it needs to be collections dot pagetitle.
    • the work of today april 28. haha SO satisfying !!
• header menu? for keyboard? accessibility?
  • maybe breadcrumbs solves this .....
  • it does !
• do the header level logic after all
  • i think
  • actually nahhh ... consistency .......

• all kinda wacky git stuff
  • almost done .....
  • he'll yea . public (and private!) repo at codeberg
• list pages
• excerpts
  • date/time line (easy)
  • tagged with: (easy)
    • links to the tagged-with pages (surprisingly hard ??? )
    • not that hard, just have to like, look up a page by title in the middle of a template. theres probly a way to do that. do i have files in there
      • no. what i need is a plugin "collection-links" that adds metadata with a link to the tag page that matches each tag. or just adds a property to every tag, but then tags are objects .. but it is tighter that way .....
      • the array is fine. this works really well !!
• footer menu
  • just did it manually, which is fine
• add main width to css (custom processor .. )
  • done in one line, hahah holy shit ..
• dates
  • pretty much ! these are just there to begin with on the files
• anything
  • markdown
  • layouts
  • live reload
    • better now
    • ahah and then worse and better and blalbal BUT it helped me identify that collections has to go before layouts which i might not have caught this early otherwise
• redo watching w ts
  • sheesh this was a thing
• manual collections