Questions

I have a blog at tjhayes.com. I am trying to get Simple Analytics working. On their website, they say I should insert a few lines of code into my webpage. But, when I am on blot.im and edit my template, there are several pages listed. Do I add that Simple Analytics code to the "entries.html" page, or to a different one?

Blot connects (so far) only to Dropbox as data source. Some writing tools I work with only connect to iCloud. If I want to continue working with both, I would need a sync solution between an iCloud folder and a Dropbox folder. Does anybody know of some online services doing this?

In my other note taking apps (iA writer, Obsidian) an inline formula would be written as $f(x+y)=f(x)f(y)$ and a display formula would look like $$\int e^{ikx}\mathrm dx = 2\pi\delta(x)$$. As in, single dollar sign gives inline formula and double dollar sign a display formula. Note that inline/display dichotomy does not affect only where the formula goes, but also how certain commands display (like the limits of sums and integration change). Additionally, the formulas in those other apps look much cuter, less angular and more smooth Is there a way to change this behaviour? I would like the writing experience to be as close as possible to my other apps (i do a lot of maths typesetting, and I plan to do it on the blog too).

Hi there! The thumbnail generated for each of my posts was working until about March, such as this post, and then stopped working. Newer posts don't seem to be generating a thumbnail, and when I try to manually add the Thumbnail: to the metadata at the beginning of posts, neither URLs nor paths to files work. I'm using the Magazine template, but I tried other templates and similarly they don't show any thumbnails for newer posts. Is there still a way to re-generate thumbnails for posts? I found a previous question about this, but the link doesn't work anymore. This isn't a big issue, but the homepage looks much more engaging with images! Thank you. :)

I have a snippet of text I would like to appear in multiple places around my site. Is there a way I can 'include' it in the content of pages or reference it directly from a custom template? I know I could create a partial within my template but I'm trying (for now) to keep content and structure seperate.

I have an "about" Page, and a Post that links to it. At the bottom of the "about" Page, there is the Links here/backlinks section that appears at the bottom of regular Posts. I’d like to disable this for Pages, but keep it for Posts. I had a look through the entry.html template, and I can see the section that adds backlinks right above the section that adds pagination. Pagination is not shown on Pages, but backlinks are, but to my untrained eye, I don't see a difference between the way the sections for backlinks/pagination are set up in the template.

I recently learned about Djot which is derived heavily from CommonMark but has more features and is generally like a stricter Markdown. It's by John MacFarlane who is also behind Pandoc so the conversion is well-supported would look something like this: djot -t pandoc mydoc.dj | pandoc -f json -s -t gfm -o mydoc.md I'm incredibly interested in trying this out for authoring my blog content.

I'd like to add a copyright notice to the bottom of the sidebar in the Magazine theme. By "bottom" I mean the bottom of the viewport (regardless of screen - mobile, tablet, desktop). While I was poking around in the source code, I also saw this reference to a "top" button that should appear in the sidebar if the user scrolls the main content div below the height of the viewbox: <a id="top_button" style="position:absolute;bottom:0;width:3rem;height:3rem;line-height:3rem;" class="mb3 white bg-black-20 lh-title br-100 f3 db tc bn no-underline" href="#top">↑</a> As is, I could never trigger the button's appearance. But when I changed the "bottom:" value to anything but "0," the button did appear — and did function — as expected. I'd also be interested in moving this down to the bottom of the viewport. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I am using the Reference template and saving Bear Notes files as Markdown. When I do this, it works properly, except on the site's front page, where the thumbnail would be, it's just text rendered in a box. When I click on it, it loads the proper page and shows me all the text and images properly formatted. But is there a way to have the image appear on the front page? When I export the exact same file from Bear Notes as DocX, the thumbnail DOES appear, but then the text margins are as wide as the browser, rather than the width of the image. So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to make the thumbnail appear on a MD file or, if not, limit the margins of the DOCX file to the same width as the image? You can see samples here: https://jazznotjazz.blot.im/ The thumbnail one is DOCX and the blank square is MD. Clicking thru they display different. Would like the thumbnail-ness of the docx with the layout of the MD. In case I add more posts while trying to figure it out, this question is referring to the two posts at the bottom of the front page. One is labeled docx - hank mobley... and the other is beside it. Thank you!

Been trying to publish a new post and image for about a day. Git is failing with a gateway timeout: % git push Enumerating objects: 9, done. Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done. error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 504 send-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 1.22 MiB | 20.00 KiB/s, done. Total 6 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly Everything up-to-date Anyone else seeing this?

How can I add dark mode (based on device settings) to the magazine template? I can't figure it out because colors are defined in the template editor settings. Much appreciated, Ray

I've deleted the archive option from the link's list and the button to add link it's not working to put it back.

I want to create a simple landing page that allows users to put in their email. I want it to connect to an email list I can access to notify people when I have updates abou tmy product. How do I go aboout this?

THe message i get is this: "This app is blocked This app tried to access sensitive info in your Google Account. To keep your account safe, Google blocked this access."

I went to check the status page because my site stopped refreshing content from Dropbox. It appears the page is no longer operational ("Last check: July 11, 2024") Is the status page no longer being updated? Are there other better channels for troubleshooting a site? (edit: Just wanted to add that Dropbox status page is reporting all systems up as of the time of this question.)

I have a fairly large number of posts that are imported from other services and have no titles. My first idea to handle this was to use a custom tag and then show "untitled post" for these posts. Unfortunately, it looks really silly on the archive page when there are several "untitled" posts in a row. My second idea to get the first X chars from the post and use that as the title, but is it possible to get the first X chars in some way? And before anyone suggest using the name of the file, my posts are stored in folders with images and are all called "index.md" which means that I get an archive full of "index" which looks even more silly that "untitled post" 😁

I was so keen to use Blot, but my custom domain isn't working despite following all the instructions. The issue lies with Blot, not my domain manager (Cloudflare). It's frustrating that I've had no response from requests to support. I fully support the developer's right to take time off, but at the very least I'd expect an out-of-office auto-response. Is Blot really run by just one person? EDIT: Okay, it works now, yay! I suspect the dev is back on board and has fixed things behind the scenes. Blot is such a good fit for me, I'm willing to pay for it even when free options exist for putting my Markdown files online (eg. Quartz or Digital Garden via Obsidian). Fingers crossed more people can shoulder the weight of customer service! I really want to see Blot keep going.

It's pretty annoying to have a redirect notice for every link I mention in a post, is there a way to link while circumventing the notice? edit: I think I solved my own problem by removing https:// from each link.

One of my sites has become completely inaccessible for managing via Blot's interface and shows 'Nothing published yet.' when visiting the site in a browser. What's going on?

Does Blot support multi-line values for YAML frontmatter? no matter what format I try, whenever I call it via a template, it seems to break the page layout, even if the YAML is valid. Conversely, if i switch to Blot style metadata, everything works as expected. To illustrate, this Blot style metadata works fine: longtext: this is a multi line but this YAML Frontmatter does not: --- longtext: |- here is a multi line --- the YAML metadata is rendered as: here is a multi line –> and the raw HTML is: <p>here</p> is a multi line –&gt; i also can't seem to figure out what is causing the –> to be rendered. so it seems like the newline characters are being rendered, but not wrapped in <p> tags (as i would expect, and how the Blot style metadata seems to handle it.