🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain

🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain

Oct 26, 2023·
Jerry Ding (丁杰瑞)
Jerry Ding (丁杰瑞)
· 2 min read
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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
  - netlify
  - netlify-cms
  - slides
```

renders as

- Hugo Modules
  - Hugo Blox
  - netlify
  - netlify-cms
  - slides

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/kit)
  - Features
    - Markdown formatting
    - **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
    - multiline
      text
    - `inline code`
    - 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/kit)
  - Features
    - Markdown formatting
    - **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
    - multiline
      text
    - `inline code`
    - 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.

Use the > [!NOTE] syntax to create a callout.

> [!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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Jerry Ding (丁杰瑞)
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Undergraduate Student @ SGY / 本科生于中国科学技术大学少年班学院

I am currently a freshman undergraduate student at the School of the Gifted Young (SGY), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

  • 我目前是中国科学技术大学(USTC)少年班学院(SGY)的大一本科生。

With a strong passion for Physics, I maintained a GPA of 4.15/4.30 (Avg 93.21) during my first semester. I am currently in the phase of exploring various sub-fields of physics, such as Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Information.

  • 对物理学抱有浓厚热情,第一学期GPA为4.15/4.30(平均93.21)。我目前正在探索物理学的各个子领域,如凝聚态物理和量子信息。

My goal is to broaden my horizons by communicating with professors and researchers. I am also planning to take advanced courses in the “Four Mechanics” (Theoretical Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Statistical Mechanics) to build a solid theoretical foundation.

  • 我的目标是通过与教授和研究人员沟通来开阔视野。我还计划学习"四大力学"(理论力学、电动力学、量子力学和统计力学)的高等课程,以建立扎实的理论基础。