Notes

Build with Node in under a second, test with node --test, and deploy to Cloudflare Workers, with or without the login.

The choices behind the site and why: plain Markdown as the source of truth, no framework, static pages, word search only, and failing closed.

Word search in the browser, ranked so a match in the title beats a match in the body, with | for alternatives.

Notes link with standard Markdown links, relative to the file. The site turns them into page addresses and lists backlinks under each note.

The private version publishes only files Git tracks, sits behind Cloudflare Access, and turns everyone away if Access is ever misconfigured.

Two folders I don't write by hand: readwise/, synced from Readwise, and highlights/, saved by a separate reading app.

Recipes live in recipes/<course>/ with time, servings, and effort in the front matter, and get their own filterable section.

Engineering Pad: green computation paper with a title block on every note and numbered sections, drawn as a blueprint in dark mode. This note shows everything a note can contain.

The command-line tool I use alongside the site, for search by meaning, links, and convention checks. It isn't part of this repository.

Each tag gets a page listing its notes. Pattern tags, like idea/atomic-parts, mark ideas that turn up across unrelated topics.

What this site is: a read-only web version of my plain-Markdown notebook, shown here with sample notes that double as its docs.

A note is one Markdown file with a short front matter block: title, summary, tags, and dates. The file name is its id.