Adding Quick Notes to My Website

I added a small thing to my website recently that I am probably more excited about than the size of the feature suggests. I can now publish quick notes to the site without sitting down at my laptop, opening the repo, creating a new Markdown file by hand, filling out the front matter, committing it, pushing it, and waiting for the site to build. That whole process works fine for regular posts. Honestly, I still like it for regular posts. There is something nice about writing in Markdown, committing the work, and treating the site like a real little home on the web. But it is not exactly friendly to small thoughts. Sometimes I just want to post a quick note. A small update. A weekend thought. A “hey, this thing happened” kind of post. Something that belongs on my website, but does not need to become a full article with headings, links, structure, and a whole production around it. That is what this new workflow is for. What these little notes are The notes section on my site has always…