From 1835b97a7a2faf23809bb39d0bec7a2b77b3b81c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacky Zhao <j.zhao2k19@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 06:45:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] better homepage --- content/_index.md | 26 +++++++------------------- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index 4cfe1be..d981591 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -1,29 +1,17 @@ --- title: ðŠī Quartz v2.1 --- - -Host your second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening) for free. - -Curious what it can do? You're on it right now! The entire Quartz documentation is fully hosted using Quartz. - -## Why Quartz? -Hosting a public digital garden isn't easy. There are an overwhelming number of tutorials, resources, and guides for tools like [Notion](https://www.notion.so/), [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/), and [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/), yet none of them have super easy to use *free* tools to publish that garden to the world. - -I've personally found that -1. It's nice to access notes from anywhere -2. Having a public digital garden invites open conversations -3. It makes keeping personal notes and knowledge *playful and fun* - -> â[One] who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but [they] also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.â â Richard Hamming - -I was really inspired by [Bianca](https://garden.bianca.digital/) and [Joel](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden)'s digital gardens and wanted to try making my own. - -**The goal of Quartz is to make hosting your own public digital garden free and simple.** You don't even need your own website. Quartz does all of that for you and gives your own little corner of the internet. +Host your second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening) for free. Quartz features +1. Extremely fast full-text search by pressing `/` +2. Beautiful, out-of-the-box website creation and deployment +3. Display for backlinks of each note +4. A customizable graph view +5. Endlessly powerful page and theme customization ## Get Started > ð [Setup your own digital garden using Quartz](notes/setup.md) -Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz! +Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz, or read about [why I made Quartz](notes/philosophy.md) to begin with! ## Troubleshooting - ð§ [Troubleshooting and FAQ](notes/troubleshooting.md) -- Gitblit v1.10.0