Recently I've been experimenting with adding title-less notes to this site, for thoughts the length of a microblog or social post.
Around the same time, I saw Pages CMS popping up in my communities. I decided to give it a try, for adding these micro posts (I call them nuggets) to my Astro content.
I didn't want to replace the authoring flow for my regular notes with Pages, because I quite like the [[Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site|Obsidian-vault-to-site-repo pipeline]] I had created for those. But these notes are written and published while I'm sitting at my computer. They take more time and attention, so I'm cool with the "slow" and manual process it takes to publish them.
Now I've got Pages set up, all I need to do is add the thought I have into a text box and boom! It's sitting as content in my repo. And I can do it from anywhere, from my phone.
It only took me 20 minutes to read the docs and get it set up. Granted, I have the most basic config ever: just text, no media. But I would recommend it as an extremely handy tool!
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Chris Padilla
Very slick!! I just recently discovered how nice it is to have both workflows — one a little more labor-intensive for the lengthier posts, and something light for quick thoughts.
It's very much in the spirit of digital gardening! Small seeds of thoughts can later blossom into a longer post... or not! That's fine too, and part of the fun of a lighter format.
Virginia
For those mini types of posts on my site I usually put it on social media (previously the bird app, now blue sky) then use ifttt that posts my blue sky posts to a Google sheet, then pull it in to the site from there. I like your solution though, no outside platform needed! I like the nugget name haha. 🐥
Torb Lunde Miranda
Oh this seems really interesting. I wonder if it'll be userfriendly enough to use for non-techies (provided techies set it up for them that is). This way (in principle at least) a client will retain far more control over their content vs. if they had to use a cloud hosted CMS or something else that's less direct.