Refactoring the shadowmaker has become a bigger headache than I had originally anticipated, but it’s for the long-term health of the system, so I’m sticking to my guns. This weekend added further drama when I finally stopped running away from frontmatter and embraced it for all my metadata. Sure, scattering #ch-command directives throughout the body of the notes was insane, but fixing it is going to mean more than just adding a few metadata fields. I may have to completely change the way I use Obsidian.
The first sign in my workflow that things are starting to come together on a project is when I start getting nervous that the next change I make will break it. After all, it can’t really be thought of as “coming together” if there’s nothing to break yet, right?
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So I always have a little celebration the first time I get worried enough to set up a git repo for the work in progress. And that milestone was reached today on this new web system. 🥳
In addition to gitifying the code, I also got the tags and projects split out into their own nav mechanisms and made some progress toward the visual style I’m aiming for: something informal, like a hand written journal, but still legible and tidy. That’s not a lot to report, but I like to celebrate the little steps too. :-)
