Private Notes
Sometimes you don’t want to share
Premise
In these days of Zoom meetings, you may be sharing your screen. When navigating note to note, it might be nice to hide some entries by default.
What it does
Private entries are only shown on the index if the little “private” toggle is turned on at the bottom (off by default).
This is NOT a security measure. It just changes the display on the index. To provide a measure to keep from embarrassing yourself.
How to
To have a hidden category, you could have the following in your site’s
config.yaml file:
params:
privateCategories:
- secrets
That will hide the category and any notes contained in it from the index.
Or if you just want to make an individual note private you can set it in the front-matter like
private: true
Caveats
This does not change the listing in /categories and /tags, only the index
itself.
There are some weird side-effects. If the category is not private, but all of the notes in it are, then the category will still be listed, but with no entries.
Tags are not dealt with at all (at least yet). You can’t hide a tag, and any tag you use in a private note will still show on the index.