---
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
```