logseq post

astro.config.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
 import mdx from "@astrojs/mdx";
-
 import sitemap from "@astrojs/sitemap";
+import { astroImageTools } from "astro-imagetools";
+
 import { remarkReadingTime } from "./plugin/remark-reading-time";
 
 // https://astro.build/config
 export default defineConfig({
   site: "https://mzhang.io",
-  integrations: [mdx(), sitemap()],
+  integrations: [mdx(), sitemap(), astroImageTools],
   markdown: {
     syntaxHighlight: false,
     remarkPlugins: [remarkReadingTime],

package.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     "@astrojs/rss": "^3.0.0",
     "@astrojs/sitemap": "^3.0.0",
     "astro": "^3.0.3",
+    "astro-imagetools": "^0.9.0",
     "fork-awesome": "^1.2.0",
     "lodash-es": "^4.17.21",
     "mdast-util-to-string": "^4.0.0",

src/content/config.ts

@@ -4,25 +4,29 @@ const posts = defineCollection({
   type: "content",
 
   // Type-check frontmatter using a schema
-  schema: z.object({
+  schema: ({ image }) =>
-    title: z.string(),
+    z.object({
-    date: z.date(),
+      title: z.string(),
+      date: z.date(),
 
-    // Transform string to Date object
+      // Transform string to Date object
-    pubDate: z
+      pubDate: z
-      .string()
+        .string()
-      .or(z.date())
+        .or(z.date())
-      .transform((val) => new Date(val))
+        .transform((val) => new Date(val))
-      .optional(),
+        .optional(),
-    updatedDate: z
+      updatedDate: z
-      .string()
+        .string()
-      .optional()
+        .optional()
-      .transform((str) => (str ? new Date(str) : undefined))
+        .transform((str) => (str ? new Date(str) : undefined))
-      .optional(),
+        .optional(),
 
-    tags: z.array(z.string()),
+      heroImage: image().optional(),
-    draft: z.boolean().default(false),
+      heroAlt: z.string().optional(),
-  }),
+
+      tags: z.array(z.string()),
+      draft: z.boolean().default(false),
+    }),
 });
 
 export const collections = { posts };

src/content/posts/2023-08-31-thoughts-on-logseq.md

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Thoughts on Logseq
-date: 2023-08-31T13:57:29.022Z
-tags:
-  - organization
-  - logseq
-draft: true
----
-
-After working for quite a bit I like to catch up with some friends from time to
-time, when I made a shocking discovery -- most of them don't really use a
-calendar of any sort to manage their lives.
-
-For a while I've always wanted a kind of personal information manager: something
-that would put all my information in one place and make it easy for me to query
-across apps.

src/content/posts/2023-08-31-thoughts-on-logseq/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+---
+title: Thoughts on personal organization
+date: 2023-08-31T13:57:29.022Z
+tags:
+  - organization
+  - logseq
+
+heroImage: ./calendarHero.png
+heroAlt: pastel colored stationery background with a bunch of calendars and personal organization tools in a crayon drawing style
+---
+
+After working for quite a bit I like to catch up with some old friends from time
+to time, when I made a surprising discovery -- many of them don't really use a
+calendar of any sort to manage their lives. Tracking something that happens more
+than a week into the future is generally out of the picture.
+
+But I understand. Putting events into a calendar is kind of a chore. Calendars
+that are [standards-compliant][3] are still primarily use email for the most part
+(sending invites, updating times, etc.) and calendars that aren't
+standards-compliant won't be compatible between different people unless they're
+using the same service.
+
+[3]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545
+
+The personal management story has always been kind of fragmented. Calendars are
+supposed to manage the entire picture of my personal schedule, yet they only see
+a small slice without more information. The only things calendars can see
+automatically with no intervention on my part are emails that happen to include
+.ics files.
+
+> I'm sure Google or Apple could probably ritz up their mail servers to scan text
+> and try to see if there's events without there being an actual .ics file, but
+> that's missing the point. The vast majority of people I associate with rarely
+> sends email events anymore.
+
+## Journals
+
+For a while I've always wanted a kind of personal information manager: something
+that would put all my information in one place and make it easy for me to query
+across apps. When I embarked on this search I wouldn't have thought that the
+most promising tool would end up being a journaling app.
+
+(by journaling app I mean something like [Logseq], [Obsidian], [Notion],
+[Workflowy] or [the][roam] [million][joplin] [other][craft]
+[similar][stdnotes] [apps][bear] that allow you to write some markdown-ish
+content, store it, and then never look back at it again)
+
+[logseq]: https://logseq.com
+[obsidian]: https://obsidian.md/
+[notion]: https://www.notion.so/
+[workflowy]: https://workflowy.com/
+[roam]: https://roamresearch.com/
+[joplin]: https://joplinapp.org/
+[craft]: https://www.craft.do/
+[stdnotes]: https://standardnotes.com/
+[bear]: https://bear.app/
+
+The world of journaling apps is vast but undiverse. Most of the apps just have
+the same features others do, minus one or two gimmicks that makes it a ride or
+die. But there's one important feature that I have started looking out for
+recently: the ability to attach arbitrary metadata to journal entries and be
+able to query for them.
+
+I think the community is starting to realize that these journals are really just
+databases, and extracting structured fields is extremely important if you want
+any kind of smart understanding of what is being journaled.
+
+[Logseq], the app that I've settled on, is backed by a [Datascript] store and
+exposes a lot of this functionality to you as a user. It allows you to query
+directly on properties that you write into your daily journal or any other page,
+for example like this:
+
+```
+- ... other content ...
+- minicross:: 34
+- ... other content ...
+```
+
+I use this on my daily journals to track how long it takes me to do the [NY
+Times daily crossword][minicross]. But Logseq is able to index this property in
+particular and let me query on it later:
+
+[datascript]: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
+[minicross]: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini
+
+![performing a query in logseq](./logseqQuery.png)
+
+I can write todo items inline in my journal and find them all at a time as well.
+As an example, here's all of the todo items that I've tagged specifically with
+#read:
+
+![reading list in logseq](./readingList.png)
+
+The fact that it truly is a database means I can start piling things in here and
+automatically perform data extraction for a more complete picture of my daily
+life. In the future I'd like to do dumps for my sleep and health data as well
+and have Logseq be my ultimate source of truth.
+
+I've also started developing a [calendar plugin for Logseq][2] that will have
+the ability to display numerical data using various visualizations by using the
+[D3] library.
+
+[d3]: https://d3js.org/
+[2]: https://git.mzhang.io/michael/logseq-calendar
+
+## Privacy
+
+Because people are dumping so much of their lives into journals, it's absolutely
+crucial that boundaries are clear. Without control, this would be a dream come
+true for any data collection company: rather than having to go out and gather
+the data, users are entering and structuring it all by themselves.
+
+End-to-end encryption is a feature that ensures data is never able to be
+accessed by your storage or synchronization providers. Of course, end-to-end
+encryption is [not possible unless the entire software is able to be scrutinized
+by the user or community][1]. Do careful research before deciding who to trust
+with your data.
+
+[1]: /posts/2021-10-31-e2e-encryption-useless-without-client-freedom

src/pages/drafts.astro

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 import PostList from "../components/PostList.astro";
 import BaseLayout from "../layouts/BaseLayout.astro";
-import { join } from "path";
+import { join, dirname } from "path";
 
 const currentUrl = Astro.url;
 ---
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ const currentUrl = Astro.url;
 <BaseLayout>
   <h2>Blog</h2>
 
-  <PostList basePath={join(currentUrl.pathname, "posts")} drafts="only" />
+  <PostList basePath={join(dirname(currentUrl.pathname), "posts")} drafts="only" />
 </BaseLayout>

src/pages/posts/[...slug].astro

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import "../../styles/post.scss";
 import BaseLayout from "../../layouts/BaseLayout.astro";
 import { type CollectionEntry, getCollection } from "astro:content";
 import Timestamp from "../../components/Timestamp.astro";
-// import BlogPost from "../../layouts/BlogPost.astro";
+import { getImage } from "astro:assets";
 
 export async function getStaticPaths() {
   const posts = await getCollection("posts");
@@ -17,17 +17,33 @@ type Props = CollectionEntry<"posts">;
 
 const post = Astro.props;
 const { Content, remarkPluginFrontmatter } = await post.render();
+const { heroImage: heroImagePath, heroAlt } = post.data;
+
+let heroImage;
+if (heroImagePath) {
+  heroImage = await getImage({ src: heroImagePath });
+}
 ---
 
 <BaseLayout>
-  <h1 class="post-title">{post.data.title}</h1>
+  <div class="post-container">
+    <h1 class="post-title">{post.data.title}</h1>
 
-  <small class="post-meta">
+    <small class="post-meta">
-    Posted on <Timestamp timestamp={post.data.date} />
+      Posted on <Timestamp timestamp={post.data.date} />
-     - {remarkPluginFrontmatter.minutesRead}
+       - {remarkPluginFrontmatter.minutesRead}
-  </small>
+    </small>
 
-  <!-- <BlogPost {...post.data}> -->
+    {
-  <Content />
+      heroImage && heroAlt && (
+        <div style={`background-image: url(${heroImage.src});`} title={heroAlt} class="hero" />
+      )
+    }
+
+    <!-- <BlogPost {...post.data}> -->
+    <div class="post-content">
+      <Content />
+    </div>
+  </div>
   <!-- </BlogPost> -->
 </BaseLayout>

src/styles/global.scss

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ a code {
 }
 
 blockquote {
-  margin-inline: 14px 14px;
+  margin-inline: 0;
   color: var(--small-text-color);
   border-left: 4px solid var(--small-text-color);
   padding-left: 12px;

src/styles/post.scss

@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@
   margin-bottom: 20px;
 }
 
+.hero {
+  display: block;
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 180px;
+  background-size: cover;
+  aspect-ratio: 1;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  margin: 24px 0;
+}
+
 .post-container {
   display: flex;
 
@@ -23,6 +33,11 @@
     display: none;
   }
 
+  p img {
+    max-width: 100%;
+    height: auto;
+  }
+
   /*
     @media screen and (max-width: 520px) {
         flex-direction: column;
@@ -153,7 +168,7 @@
   }
 
   > p {
-    line-height: 1.5;
+    line-height: 1.25;
   }
 
   > p > img {
@@ -163,7 +178,7 @@
 
   .footnotes {
     font-size: 0.9em;
-    line-height: 1.2;
+    line-height: 1.05;
   }
 }