Firn Setup (with Emacs)
The following are optional notes and suggestions on how to best setup Emacs and your folder of org-files with a few best practices for a Firn site.
Folder Structure
Firn was originally intended to build sites from a flat wiki structure, although this is not mandatory. Firn works well with Org-Roam, which is also not required, but useful. You can have nested folders, which will translate into nested url paths.
An example directory:
❯ tree -L 2
.
├── _firn
│ ├── _site
│ ├── bin
│ ├── layouts
│ ├── partials
│ └── static
├── attach
│ ├── _20200328_190456_an_attachment.jpg
│ └── test-img.png
├── file1.org # => site.com/file1.html
├── file2.org # => site.com/file2.html
└── foo
└── level-2.org # => site.com/foo/file1.html
Links
Linking between files
All links should be relative.
In your wiki directory, add a .dir-locals.el file with these contents to make
sure org links are relative (or just change it in your config.el if you don't
mind having this setting apply across all org files.):
((org-mode
(org-link-file-path-type . relative)))
Attachments
When it comes to attachments:
It's recommended to put all images/attachments in a single folder (your
:dir-data)You can configure which directory this is via the
:dir-datakey in your config.
Miscellaneous
How to auto timestamp DATE_UPDATED on every file
Ensure that you have a
#+DATE_UPDATEDkeyword in your org-files:
#+TITLE: Firn
#+DATE_CREATED: <2020-03-01 09:53>
#+DATE_UPDATED: <2020-03-22 13:24>
In your wiki directory, add a
.dir-localsfile with these contents
((org-mode
(time-stamp-pattern . "8/DATE_UPDATED:[ ]+\\\\?[\"<]+%:y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M\\\\?[\">]")
))
Somewhere in your config, add a hook to run emacs' time-stamp function on save:
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'time-stamp) ; update timestamp, if it exists, when saving
Ignoring certain files or directories
Setting the keyword #+FIRN_PRIVATE: true in an org-mode file will cause the file
not to be rendered. Similarly, you can set an entire directory to be ignored in
your config.edn