Configuring notes 2025

Continuing the discussion from Discourse config checklist:

This topic will track configuring this site, my notes.

Here are the plugins for this site, and why I use it:

  • AI - I use the AI to assist in my knowledge work, here in my notes
  • Assign - I assign myself notes to prioritize processing
  • Automation - I use automation to assist in my knowledge work
  • Data Explorer - I use this to create custom API endpoints for processing notes data elsewhere
  • Footnotes - I don’t personally use footnotes in my notes, but the AI uses them to reference URLs browsed, which I appreciate as an interface
  • Policy - I use this to have everyone check the agreed use of this site (it is pending :sweat_smile:)
  • Reactions - A friend asked me to turn this on; I am awaiting the more flexible version to embrace using it
  • Templates - Very useful for my knowledge work
  • Translator - Very useful for my knowledge work

And components:

  • DiscoTOC - for adding table of contents to long notes
  • Discourse Mermaid - for adding diagrams to notes
  • Placeholder Theme Component - for creating useful forms that generate computing commands

I use the “Default” theme with the “WCAG Dark” color palette.