🧠 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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I am a PhD graduate at the WorldPop, University of Southampton. My research focuses on how environmental and policy changes shape human behaviours and population health, bridging geospatial data sciences, computational social science, econometrics, and public health.
My current work focuses on three themes: 1) Spatiotemporal population dynamics, mapping monthly, daily, to hourly population distribution by integrating mobile phone positioning and geospatial data. 2) Human behaviours and disease dynamics, drawing on social media and digital traces data to examine how human mobility and health behaviours shape infectious disease transmission, and how health interventions affect mental well-being. 3) Human mobility and climate change, which investigates the impacts of climate and environmental exposure, including floods, tropical cyclones, and wildfires, on human mobility and population health.