design: freeing the treehouse of curated categories

content/design.tree

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             - that ain't default behavior. :hat_smug:
 
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++ :page: idea: freeing the hobby corners
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content/design/freehouse.tree

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+%% title = "idea: freeing the hobby corners"
+
+% id = "01JHGX51XQMBYYQ5VCV427N169"
+- also known as, _freehouse_.
+
+% id = "01JHGX4H8G4Q0SWBXMNRME0GCX"
+- I've been thinking recently that with the current way pages are categorised on my website, things are beginning to get surprisingly inflexible for myself!
+
+    % id = "01JHGX4H8GE6BND3EHH1R38P7P"
+    + for instance, sometimes I wanna write about stuff that's outside my usual five _programming_, _design_, _music_, _games_, and _philosophy_.
+
+        % id = "01JHGXGC0MJYVC32BCPT658GWY"
+        - I'm also visiting Japan in the coming months, and there's no category that could fit that!
+
+            % id = "01JHGXGC0MFHM9K0FF9W2XW8XH"
+            - _and_ as I'm learning Japanese, I might want to start writing Japanese posts for practice.
+            they're probably not gonna be very good, but who cares.
+            it's not like these are very good either.
+
+    % id = "01JHGX4H8G0JYB2Z0HD5SQYNQF"
+    - I've been writing a bunch of stuff that sits on the border _between_ these categories too, and it feels _wrong_ to have a page fit only a single category.
+
+        % id = "01JHGX4H8GZT1H12PB65XBGD4C"
+        - it's not like I _can't_ put pages into separate categories, but it just _feels wrong_.
+
+% id = "01JHGX4H8G41VW3EX0JK9FQ8P9"
+- so I've been thinking, what could I do to make this problem... y'know, _less_ of a problem?
+
+% id = "01JHGX4H8GCK6AM0M1Q20X86JV"
+- one idea that immediately comes to mind is to switch all these categories into tags, together with a fuzzy search system.
+
+    % id = "01JHGX4H8G4PTRV34MW9JRW98W"
+    - I already have a tagging system for feeds---governed by a simple list in my config TOML:
+
+    ```toml
+    [feed]
+    tags = [
+        # Hobby corners
+        "meow",
+        "programming",
+        "design",
+        "music",
+        "games",
+        "philosophy",
+
+        # Programming fields
+        "graphics",
+        "plt",
+
+        # Programming languages
+        "c",
+        "cxx",
+        "lua",
+        "javascript",
+
+        # Projects
+        "treehouse",
+        "haku",
+    ]
+    ```
+
+        % id = "01JHGX4H8GGKCJRE9696HTTHQQ"
+        - these tags are an exhaustive list of tags allowed to be entered into my Atom feed.
+        the theory was that, when you subbed to my Atom, you'd be able to tell your reader to filter out tags you're not interested in---but that doesn't really work, since interpreting tags doesn't seem like a common feature in readers.
+
+    % id = "01JHGX4H8G76GT123SKT9HRFH7"
+    - my problem begins at the _home page_---how the heck do we organise the entries there?
+
+        % id = "01JHGX4H8G2MHS10CJJDABD6CD"
+        - perhaps leave it as is, but make the subbranches dynamic?
+        as in, each of _programming_, _design_, _music_, _games_, and _shower_ would have its contents replaced with a list of posts containing each of their respective tags, together with search boxes that'd let you filter through them further.
+
+            % id = "01JHGYRBZH7PJZ6DTGQXHX11EZ"
+            - maybe even little toggleable chips to filter out other tags.
+
+        % id = "01JHGX4H8G3PXSVMBBQA4R9G1C"
+        - maybe on wide screens, we could make the hobby corners (or, _major categories_) viewable in columns?
+
+            % id = "01JHGX4H8GG4XX06SPAFXAVJEY"
+            - maybe you could fold and expand those columns, and they would persist across page visits?
+            that would be a nice and implicit way of subscribing to certain tags.
+
+                % id = "01JHGX4H8G0B5YX6G3QZRKYN5T"
+                - maybe based on which categories you're subscribed to, you'd be able to generate a customised feed?
+
+% id = "01JHGX8YZJFM11VAD1GZ3SD1VT"
+- I've also been thinking, maybe for each category we could have a little chibi [riki][pic:01J7S732AYP596VTRZGEA57Q17] sitting in the corner and doing various things?
+
+    % id = "01JHGX8YZJZJXZXX19QAX6VQFP"
+    - that'd be a humongous challenge for my art skills but it'd be super cute.
+
+% id = "01JHGX4H8GVX7KFR1JTAF7CGTY"
+- all things to think about and tinker with.
+maybe I'll come up with an implementation over the coming days.
+

content/treehouse/new.tree

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         if you want to read any of the posts, follow the links.
         it's like that by design.
 
+% tags = ["design", "treehouse"]
+  id = "01JHGYTZN196N51ZBS4MZGHJ73"
+- ### [idea: freeing the hobby corners][page:design/freehouse]
+
+    % id = "01JHGYTZN1NDXBSG4K5HJ8SRAM"
+    - exploring the idea of aggregating pages via tags, rather than manually curating and structuring them out.
+
 % tags = ["meow", "philosophy"]
   id = "01JGXQ5E8DHAEYFTHG0RB86VNE"
 - ### [nickname change!][page:philosophy/riki]
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