🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain
Image credit: UnsplashCreate a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.
Hugo Blox web framework empowers you with one of the most flexible note-taking capabilities out there.
Create a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Use it as your second brain, either publicly sharing your knowledge with your peers via your website, or via a private GitHub repository and password-protected site just for yourself.
Mindmaps
Hugo Blox supports a Markdown extension for mindmaps.
With this open format, can even edit your mindmaps in other popular tools such as Obsidian.
Simply insert a Markdown code block labelled as markmap and optionally set the height of the mindmap as shown in the example below.
Mindmaps can be created by simply writing the items as a Markdown list within the markmap code block, indenting each item to create as many sub-levels as you need:
```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
- Hugo Blox
- netlify
- netlify-cms
- slides
```
renders as
- Hugo Modules - Hugo Blox - netlify - netlify-cms - slides
Anh here’s a more advanced mindmap with formatting, code blocks, and math:
```markmap
- Mindmaps
- Links
- [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
- [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/kit)
- Features
- Markdown formatting
- **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
- multiline
text
- `inline code`
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
```
renders as
- Mindmaps
- Links
- [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
- [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/kit)
- Features
- Markdown formatting
- **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
- multiline
text
- `inline code`
- Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$Highlighting
Highlight important text with mark:
<mark>Highlighted text</mark>
Callouts
Use callouts (aka asides, hints, or alerts) to draw attention to notes, tips, and warnings.
Use the > [!NOTE] syntax to create a callout.
> [!NOTE]
> A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
renders as
A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
Or use the warning callout type so your readers don’t miss critical details:
A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
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Polina Beloborodova is a social psychologist researching the adverse impacts of social disconnection and loneliness on emotional well-being, as well as the potential of contemplative practices like meditation to address these issues.
She is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University (United States) and a PhD in General and Personality Psychology from HSE University (Russia). Polina’s research has been funded by the Mind & Life Institute and American Psychological Association and has received multiple awards.
Before entering academia, Polina worked in human resources across several industries. Born and raised in Russia, educated in Europe and the US, and having traveled to over 50 countries, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to her research, teaching, and service. In her free time, Polina enjoys reading fiction and spending time in nature.