A Commonplace Book

What is this project?

One of my original ideas for this web page was some sort of personal wiki or knowledgebase.^[1] Now that I've got a basic blog set up I'd like to return to that idea a little.

This is inspired by a few things, but most recently barnsworthburning struck me. I'd like to build something similar for myself.

Honestly, this project is fairly ambitious and will probably be something I tinker with over a long period of time. I see this having a few moving parts that I need to validate and think through to make something useful for myself.

Parts

Some kind of data structure for items
A mechanism for real-time data pulls^[2]
A way to generate entries from multiple devices

What's the current status?

Doing some research and ideation

Investigate Sveltekit as an option to handle server-side data fetching from Airtable

Create Airtable Base with basic schema for commonplace book

Sketch out some layout ideas

Build out some basic test data for the commonplace book

Consider extraction tool (browser plugin? cli tool?) to capture records for the commonplace book quickly

See my first blog post. ↩︎
My Gunpla tracker and Letterboxd integration use a scheduled GitHub Action to rebuild this static site. A commonplace book probably needs to update more quickly when something is added. ↩︎