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title: 🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain
summary: Create a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.
date: 2023-10-26
authors:
- me
tags:
- Second Brain
- Markdown
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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:
<div class="highlight">
<pre class="chroma">
<code>
```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
- Hugo Blox
- blox-plugins-netlify
- blox-plugins-netlify-cms
- blox-plugins-reveal
```
</code>
</pre>
</div>
renders as
```markmap {height="200px"}
- 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:
<div class="highlight">
<pre class="chroma">
<code>
```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`
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
```
</code>
</pre>
</div>
renders as
```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`
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
```
## Highlighting
<mark>Highlight</mark> important text with `mark`:
```html
<mark>Highlighted text</mark>
```
## Callouts
Use [callouts](https://docs.hugoblox.com/reference/markdown/#callouts) (aka _asides_, _hints_, or _alerts_) to draw attention to notes, tips, and warnings.
Use the `> [!NOTE]` syntax to create a callout.
```markdown
> [!NOTE]
> A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
```
renders as
> [!NOTE]
> A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
Or use the `warning` callout type so your readers don't miss critical details:
> [!WARNING]
> A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
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