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Re: Static site generation

Zim allows for exporting to html with a left hand column containing a list of page title (aka filenames), rhs the text.

On 11/08/2026 17:00, Eric Marceau via linux wrote:

But couldn't that be dealt with a single embedded Javascript indexing mechanism to manage an fixed index page such that a drop-down menu offered canned choices of categories and selectively displaying the items that fell into those categories?

Similarly, you could make the logic in that single index HTML page (pre-built, static) also handle a set of keywords associated with each indexed item, and again for date.  Don't know enough to say it could also handle substring search (on a pre-built-index, again part of that single HOME HTML page.

Just some thoughts,


Eric

On 2026-08-11 16:35, Ron via linux wrote:
Eric Marceau via linux wrote on 2026-08-11 13:30:
Or would you have them grouped under a single level of "Topic" directories to try to minimize the confusion?

This is where static files fall over: can they be sorted by Topic, Tag, Filename, Date,...?

What about searching contents? Sure, `grep` exists, but since they're to be accessed in a browser, that does not help there.


I imagine static files can work in some instances, but I'm just a big Non-Fan, personally.


/my 2¢

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