Foam + WowChemy

[JOduMonT]

I like the idea of Digital Garden and believe WowChemy is not that far from it.

From what I understand, a Digital Garden is a between blog and wiki where you post unpolished though on different subject; it acts like a second brain and help you to keep track of progress and identity interest. It is also, one underlay, reasons why Notion is so popular.

Anyway, lately I started to add Foam inside my WowChemy repo and added VSCodium as a startup app, and it works well.

Every day, foam creates a new dated file called inbox, to dump my thoughts and link and tag, almost magically everything together, without forgetting the todo.

The missing part I would love to see happen is on the WowChemy part; in somehow it would be nice to have the [MindMap](the https://foambubble.github.io/foam/features/graph-visualisation) but what, I feel, is missing to be a real digital garden is:

• toggling mainly inspired by Notion, but I saw that function for TOC with some Hugo theme
• and a good overlay presentation, such as showed here

So how hard it would be to make toggling happen in WowChemy?

[rodrigoalcarazdelaosa]

FYI, Wowchemy already has a notes template (source here, live here). Toggle lists are already supported too, see the spoiler shortcode.

[JOduMonT]

so 'im late ;)

[JOduMonT]

ok so then my dream is coming true...
I copied .foam/ and .vscode/ of foam into my wowChemy repo
and changing the line 17 to "foam.openDailyNote.directory": "content/journal", where I would like to keep my daily notes/journal.

and now the goal would be to make a .foam/template/daily-note.md to populated with the header of WowChemy note
if this works, we could totally imagine doing this template pattern with others types of content proposed by wowChemy such as:

• Blank - add any elements such as an image gallery
• Hero - encourage visitors to perform an action (CTA)
• About Me - introduce yourself
• Skills / Features - showcase skills or key features of a product
• Experience / Education - list your professional experience on a timeline
• Accomplishments - showcase your (online learning) certificates and other achievements
• Content Feed - display recent blog posts, events, and publications
• Featured Content - display featured (sticky) blog posts, events, and publications
• Contact - display your contact details, including an optional contact form and map
• Portfolio - showcase your work or product features in a filterable portfolio
• Tag cloud - enable visitors to discover popular topics
• Team Members - introduce your team members
• Slider (carousel) - promote a lot of content in a small space

[JOduMonT]

so by adding the second line and changing the first line like this

.vscode/settings.json

...
  "foam.openDailyNote.directory": "content/journal",
  "foam.openDailyNote.onStartup": "true",
...

and creating that template

./.foam/templates/daily-note.md

---
draft: true
title: '${CURRENT_DAY_NAME} ${CURRENT_MONTH_NAME} ${CURRENT_YEAR}'
linktitle: Reading List
type: book
date: '${CURRENT_YEAR}-${CURRENT_MONTH}-${CURRENT_DATE}'
---

every time I open my repo with vsCodium a daily note appear and would be technically publish as a notes/garden