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All of the content in your Quartz should go in the /content folder. The content for the home page of your Quartz lives in content/index.md. If you've [[index#🪴 Get Started|setup Quartz]] already, this folder should already be initailized. Any Markdown in this folder will get processed by Quartz.
It is recommended that you use Obsidian as a way to edit and maintain your Quartz. It comes with a nice editor and graphical interface to preview all of your local files and allow you to easily edit and link across files.
Got everything setup? Let's [[build]] and preview your Quartz locally!
As Quartz uses Markdown files as the main way of writing content, it fully supports Markdown syntax along with a few extensions like Github Flavored Markdown (footnotes, strikethrough, tables, tasklists) and Obsidian Flavored Markdown ([[callouts]], [[wikilinks]]).
Additionally, Quartz also allows you to specify additional metadata in your notes called frontmatter using YAML.
title: Example Title
draft: false
tags:
The rest of your content lives here. You can use Markdown here :)
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Some common frontmatter fields that are natively supported by Quartz:
title: Quartz will use the name of the file as the title if this isn't provided. If it is provided, it should be a string.draft: Whether to publish the page or not. This is one way to make [[private pages|pages private]] in Quartz.aliases: Other names for this note. This is a list of strings.date: A string representing the day the note was published. Normally uses YYYY-MM-DD format but other formats may work.