Emanote

On this site, you have three examples: add any of these – [[Blog]], [[Microblog]], or [[Neuron]] – to your feed reader, if you want to keep yourself abreast of new content in those zettels. (This website has migrated to Emanote as of June 2021)

Things like tests are not in the template repo, because I personally do not use it in every project created off this repo. Instead, a workflow like “How to add tests” should be documented (eg.: Adding tests). The same goes for project documentation (which normally would use Emanote).

Although Markdown is good enough for 📓 Zettelkasten, wikis and such (cf. Emanote), for writing outline content Org Mode in Emacs shines the best.

Neuron is a note-taking tool written in Haskell and optimized for publishing, based on the 📓 Zettelkasten method. Visit the project website to learn more. Neuron is being superceded by Emanote.

On GitHub you can find a list of Haskell projects I work on, the notable of which are Neuron, Ema and Emanote.

Another key feature of Ema 0.8 is that multiple Ema apps can be combined to produce a new top-level site. Emanote, a note-publishing system, is an Ema app. Say, you want to create a personal website using Ema, but want to delegate publishing of your notes to Emanote. You can combine both your Ema app and the Emanote managed site into a single site, by definining a top-level route like this:

This release also introduces the Dynamic type to represent type-varying model values. Dynamic’s compose better than LVar’s. The unionmount library, which Emanote uses, has also been updated to be Dynamic-friendly.

It is worth emphasizing that I designed Ema to facilitate a new model of application development – one where the data is managed and edited outside of the application itself (such as in text editors, or even a database), but the view of the data is provided by the application. Neuron is a great example of that (and it might well be eventually rewritten on top of Ema; EDIT: indeed it is). Another example is writing a diary / journal view on top of Org Mode daily notes, which is what I’m exploring in the orgself project that also uses Ema. A third example is to take a OPML file and present a daily-digest view of new content from the RSS feeds; the application would provide only a “view” into your data, which is a XML file that you may edit however you see fit. I like this model of apps, because the data and the data format remains under my control, all the while yet I’m not limited when it comes to presentation of that data, and I think the web is a great platform for the later.