Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Nanoc

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 4 social mentions

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Jekyll

Why the no longer maintained Jekyll Now vs. The current mainline Jekyll at https://jekyllrb.com/.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 181 social mentions

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Typora

The combination of [Typora](https://typora.io/) for writing markdown + `mkdocs serve` or `hugo serve` is pretty neat. Set up a gitlab-ci.yml that builds and pushes the final site to your hosted destination.

#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions

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Forestry.io

I'd suggest you give Forestry (https://forestry.io) a try. It's a great CMS for static sites (incl. Asset management) and it has a really nice preview system.

#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 35 social mentions

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GitJournal

Disclaimer: App Author If your Hugo blog is stored in Git, you could try out GitJournal [0][1]. It's a mobile based Markdown editor integrated with Git. Many people seem to use it for managing their Hugo/Jekyll blogs. [0] https://gitjournal.io [1] https://github.com/GitJournal.

#Note Taking #Personal Notes #Notes 23 social mentions

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Telegra.ph

There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe: https://telegra.ph.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 9 social mentions

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Kirby

I'm going to add my personal take on this issue since I'm currently running a blog that's markdown-ish powered. In my opinion the best solution is to find some sort of happy medium. Static site generators are excellent in terms of weight and speed but a lightweight file based CMS can be almost as fast while still providing the needed flexibility. My site currently runs on Kirby (https://getkirby.com) but I write almost everything on iA both on my Mac while I'm at home and on my phone while I'm outside. Updating the site is not as simple as typing a command on a terminal but it's just a few clicks on a very simple and minimal UI. Images are hosted on my server like the rest of the content. It's a simply DO snippet with no fancy configuration. If you want to go down a more automated solution, iA comes with support for micropub so you could in theory set it up so that you can upload a new post without leaving the iA interface. But imo it's a lot of extra backend setup that needs to be monitored to save very little time in the long run so for me it's personally not worth it.

#CMS #Blogging Platform #Blogging 37 social mentions

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Hexo

I ended up picking hexo[0], as the hexo admin plugin[1] provides a nice localhost CMS/editor that supports image pasting, tag editing etc (could be hosted online too for remote/mobile access, but wouldn't be truly static/server-less at that point). [0] https://hexo.io/.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 20 social mentions

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Zim Wiki

Old school perhaps, but most everything here feels <i>wildly</i> overengineered for a static site. If the site is truly static, then there's no need for any server or client web languages at all. You need HTML (with perhaps some sort of generator), CSS, and e.g. rsync. I've been doing mine with http://zim-wiki.org for <i>years</i>.

#WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions