Patrika

A notebook-inspired personal publishing theme built with Astro. Not a blog theme — it draws on commonplace books, field notebooks, literary journals, and printed magazines, favoring typography and whitespace over decoration.

See AGENTS.md for the full design philosophy and current implementation reference.

Features

• Content collections for essays, notes, and standalone pages, plus a config-as-content siteConfig collection.
• Obsidian-flavored markdown — wikilinks ([[Page]], [[Page#Heading]]), image embeds, %%comments%%, ==highlights==, and :::aside/:::annotation directives, powered by a native Sätteri markdown pipeline (not remark/unified).
• Backlinks between notes, computed from wikilinks.
• Inline image galleries with a lightbox (GLightbox) for consecutive images in a post or note.
• A generic browse system (/browse) driven entirely by an optional meta object in frontmatter and a browse config block — no hardcoded metadata keys.
• Search via Pagefind's native Component UI.
• RSS and sitemap out of the box.

Quickstart

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Then:

1. Edit src/content/siteConfig/config.yaml — set your real domain (url), author, navigation, and social links.
2. Set the matching site value in astro.config.mjs (required for RSS/sitemap to generate correct absolute URLs).
3. Add your own writing under src/content/posts/, src/content/notes/, and src/content/pages/, replacing the sample entries there.

Commands

Command	Action
pnpm install	Install dependencies
pnpm dev	Start the dev server at localhost:4321
pnpm build	Build to ./dist/, then build the Pagefind search index and copy it into public/
pnpm preview	Preview the production build locally
pnpm astro …	Run any Astro CLI command (astro check, astro add, …)

Customization

• Fonts — the fonts array in astro.config.mjs.
• Colors and typography — src/styles/.
• Browse dimensions (e.g. places, trips) — the browse key in config.yaml; each entry turns a meta.<key> frontmatter field into a browsable index at /browse/<slug>.

Learn more

Astro documentation