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title: "Starting With Why: The Knowledgebase"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhstarting_with_why_the_knowledgebase/
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Everyone and their dog has a blog at this point. Why not me? You see, I don&rsquo;t really like the idea of blogging, but I do enjoy taking notes. I take a crap tonnes of notes, and sometimes people want to see a copy of them.
In order to facilitate this, some friends and I created taproot, a collective note-taking effort which also automatically compiled pretty cool previews and an internet site. I still am one of the primary maintainers of taproot.
While working on the project, however, we noticed that the loop-based architecture (instead of being based on events/triggers), lack of duplicity, and requirement of a central build server made it difficult.
In this vein, quantumish (also with his own lovely set of notes, tap on the link!) and I were discussing if the essentials of taproot can be built into a static site generator. Hence, this is an experiment (to hopefully be merged with the taproot group) to facilitate this.
