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title: "Alexandria: a knowledge garden"
---

Welcome! You've stumbled upon (or perhaps were pointed to) my public-facing
[Zettelkasten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten), or _knowledge
garden_.

This is where I grow my ideas, and they are meticulously tagged to form the
knowledge webs you see in the top right.

Feel free to take a look around and appreciate the scenery.

## FAQ

> How do you edit these notes?

The underlying notes are simply Markdown files. Precisely, they are
[Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) compatible Markdown files, which are tagged
with metadata for use the Obsidian apps.

However, I do not use the Obsidian desktop app, for two reasons:

1. Out of principle, Obsidian is [free as in free beer, but not free as in free
   speech](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html).
2. (main reason) [Vim](https://neovim.io/) is just too good to give up.

Therefore, I edit my notes using the free and open source
[obsidian.nvim](https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim) plugin for Neovim.

> I want to know cool technical details about the site!

Glad you asked, real person who is interested! This site is powered by [Quartz
4](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/), and uses `typst` for math typesetting, not the
common `LaTeX`. Behold:

$$
integral _(diff Omega) omega = integral _Omega dif omega
$$