- 28 Dec, 2025 *
I’m working on annotating a public domain book, Recollections of a Happy Life by Marianne North. Progress in the projects.
It has been a bigger job than I thought and I ran pretty quickly into the issue of how I was going to present this information. I started off with a Carrd site but it soon became clear that was not going to cut it. There’s too information and the information is too disjointed to just be in a glossary or list.
The notes had to be integrated into the text, which meant something m…
- 28 Dec, 2025 *
I’m working on annotating a public domain book, Recollections of a Happy Life by Marianne North. Progress in the projects.
It has been a bigger job than I thought and I ran pretty quickly into the issue of how I was going to present this information. I started off with a Carrd site but it soon became clear that was not going to cut it. There’s too information and the information is too disjointed to just be in a glossary or list.
The notes had to be integrated into the text, which meant something more like the site The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Which is a work of art.
So. New plan. A wiki.
First I thought about just making it. Just html. But that would take a lot of time. Too many links and I wanted backlinks to be easy and automatic, stuff like that.
Then I looked at TiddlyWiki. In fact, I set up a TiddlyWiki for the first chapter, over multiple days. Unfortunately, it was an absolute pain. So I ditched that plan!
At which point I thought this might be a good opportunity to have a real, structured attack on Obsidian. I have fiddled with Obsidian many times but never got it to stick.
What I learnt from the TiddlyWiki experience was to run through the whole process of drafting to publishing early. So as not to waste time drafting when you end up hating the publishing so much you can’t use it. For instance. A bit minimum viable product. Minimum viable workflow. The setup via GitHub and Vercel was easy and just as importantly it looks good.
Hopefully that is settled then. Now I just need to keep plugging away with the notes but it’s much more motivating knowing where it’s all going and I’m not doubling up on work.