From 388a2bf78bb08c2b37e918c3a2e0acc72803e187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacky Zhao <j.zhao2k19@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:44:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs updates

---
 content/notes/hosting.md         |   10 +++++++---
 content/notes/editing.md         |    4 ++--
 content/notes/troubleshooting.md |    3 +++
 content/notes/preview changes.md |    6 +++++-
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/notes/editing.md b/content/notes/editing.md
index 17730ef..9a084c8 100644
--- a/content/notes/editing.md
+++ b/content/notes/editing.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 **All content in your garden can found in the `/content` folder.** To make edits, you can open any of the files and make changes directly and save it. You can organize content into any folder you'd like.
 
-**To edit the main home page, open `/content/_index.md`.** This is the home page which is slightly special. You don't need front matter here!
+**To edit the main home page, open `/content/_index.md`.*
 
 To create a link between notes in your garden, just create a normal link using Markdown pointing to the document in question. Please note that **all links should be relative to the root `/content` path**. 
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 [A link to the config page](notes/config.md)
 ```
 
-Similarly, you can put local images anywhere in the `/content` folder. The only caveat is that you should reference them in your Markdown by prefixing it with a `/`.
+Similarly, you can put local images anywhere in the `/content` folder.
 
 ```markdown
 Example image (source is in content/notes/images/example.png)
diff --git a/content/notes/hosting.md b/content/notes/hosting.md
index a6725b7..bb1d912 100644
--- a/content/notes/hosting.md
+++ b/content/notes/hosting.md
@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@
 
 Head to the 'Settings' tab of your forked repository and go to the 'Pages' tab.
 
-1. (IMPORTANT) Set the source to deploy from `master` using `/ (root)`
+1. (IMPORTANT) Set the source to deploy from `master` (and not `hugo`) using `/ (root)`
 2. Set a custom domain here if you have one!
 
 ![Enable GitHub Pages](/notes/images/github-pages.png)*Enable GitHub Pages*
 
 ### Pushing Changes
-To see your changes on the internet, we need to push it them to GitHub. Quartz is essentially a `git` repository so updating it is the same workflow as you would follow as normal.
+To see your changes on the internet, we need to push it them to GitHub. Quartz is a `git` repository so updating it is the same workflow as you would follow as if it were just a regular software project.
 
 ```shell
 # Navigate to Quartz folder
@@ -43,13 +43,15 @@
 
 Here, we take advantage of GitHub's free page hosting to deploy our site. Change `baseURL` in `/config.toml`.
 
+Make sure that your `baseURL` has a trailing `/`!
+
 [Reference `config.toml` here](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/blob/hugo/config.toml)
 
 ```toml
 baseURL = "https://<YOUR-DOMAIN>/"
 ```
 
-If you are using this under a subdomain (e.g. `<YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME>.github.io/quartz`), include the trailing path.
+If you are using this under a subdomain (e.g. `<YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME>.github.io/quartz`), include the trailing `/`.
 
 ```toml
 baseURL = "https://<YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME>.github.io/quartz/"
@@ -57,6 +59,8 @@
 
 Change `cname` in `/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml`. Again, if you don't have a custom domain to use, you can use `<YOUR-USERNAME>.github.io`.
 
+Please note that the `cname` field should *not* have any path `e.g. end with /quartz` or have a trailing `/`.
+
 [Reference `deploy.yaml` here](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/blob/hugo/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml)
 
 ```yaml
diff --git a/content/notes/preview changes.md b/content/notes/preview changes.md
index 191810e..8d2a389 100644
--- a/content/notes/preview changes.md
+++ b/content/notes/preview changes.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 If you'd like to preview what your Quartz site looks like before deploying it to the internet, here's exactly how to do that!
 
+Note that both of these steps need to be completed.
+
 ## Install `hugo-obsidian`
 This step will generate the list of backlinks for Hugo to parse. Ensure you have [Go](https://golang.org/doc/install) (>= 1.16) installed.
 
@@ -15,9 +17,11 @@
 $ cd <location-of-your-local-quartz>
 
 # Scrape all links in your Quartz folder and generate info for Quartz
-$ hugo-obsidian -input=content -output=data -index -root=.
+$ hugo-obsidian -input=content -output=static -index -root=.
 ```
 
+If you are running into an error saying that `command not found: hugo-obsidian`, make sure you set your `GOPATH` correctly! This will allow your terminal to correctly recognize hugo-obsidian as an executable.
+
 Afterwards, start the Hugo server as shown above and your local backlinks and interactive graph should be populated!
 
 ##  Installing Hugo
diff --git a/content/notes/troubleshooting.md b/content/notes/troubleshooting.md
index 6aab5ef..226216b 100644
--- a/content/notes/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/content/notes/troubleshooting.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
 While you're here, join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/cRFFHYye7t) :)
 
+### My GitHub pages is just showing the README and not Quartz
+Make sure you set the source to deploy from `master` (and not `hugo`) using `/ (root)`! See more in the [hosting](/notes/hosting) guide
+
 ### Some of my pages have 'January 1, 0001' as the last modified date
 This is a problem caused by `git` treating files as case-insensitive by default and some of your posts probably have capitalized file names. You can turn this off in your Quartz by running this command.
 

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