feat: Add note on adding notes ;)

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title: "Adding another post type to Hugo"
date: 2025-12-14T7:30:00+02:00
draft: false
subtitle: "How I added notes as content type to hugo in addition to the standard posts and pages."
---
Notes are short posts that focus on a small bit of information. Other than my blogposts they do not try to give a
complete picture or a full explanation. They are more of a brain-dump of mine with a low bar of typing them out.
So how did I add them?
1. **Create a notes folder:** The folder in `content/notes` will hold the notes
2. **Add rendering template:** Hugo needs to know what to do here, so add a rendering template in
`layouts/notes/list.html`. A sample is provided below.
3. Add `content/notes/_index.md` with a short explanation of the
### Styling template
```html
{{ define "main" }}
<h1">Notes</h1>
<div>
{{ .Content }}
</div>
<ul>
{{ range .Pages.ByDate.Reverse }}
<li
">
<h2>
<a href="{{ .Permalink }} "> {{ .Title }} </a>
</h2>
<small">{{ .Date.Format "2006-01-02" }}</small>
{{ if .Params.subtitle }}
<p>{{ .Params.subtitle }}</p>
{{ end }}
</li>
{{ end }}
</ul>
{{ end }}
```
As you can see, I added an optional subtitel. They make it much easier to find a note that is interesting, but should
not be necessary to lower the bar for the author. Subtitles can be specified like this
```markdown
---
title: "Adding another post type to Hugo"
date: 2025-12-14T7:30:00+02:00
draft: false
subtitle: "How I added notes as content type to hugo in addition to the standard posts and pages."
---
Notes are short posts
```