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Revisiting My Note-Taking Stack

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Bilingual notes on software, photography, and slow living.
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I have cycled through many knowledge systems over the past decade. The current stack keeps things lightweight and portable:

  1. Obsidian vaults for evergreen notes. Every page starts with structured front matter so Hugo can mirror the metadata when I publish a piece.
  2. Paper notebooks for sketches, camera settings, and trip logs. I digitize them weekly using a Fujitsu scanner and drop the PDFs into Obsidian.
  3. Hugo + Blowfish for publishing. I export a note via a template snippet, drop it into content/en/posts, and run npm run dev for preview.

Flow for bilingual posts
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  • Draft in Chinese first. I capture idioms and cultural references before translating.
  • Translate into English while editing for brevity.
  • Run npm run build to ensure both /zh/ and /en/ versions compile without lint warnings.

This system only works when the friction is low. Automations such as spec:validate (OpenSpec) and prettier keep files consistent so I can spend energy on the story instead of tooling.