Use now posts for Now page. Add featured-pages. Streamline menus.

Add blips page. Add ways page.
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diff --git a/_data/navigation.yml b/_data/navigation.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ main:
     url: /posts/
   - title: "Notes"
     url: /notes/
-  - title: "Bookmarks"
-    url: /bookmarks/  
+  - title: "Reading"
+    url: /reading/  
 #  - title: "CV & Portfolio"
 #    url: /cv/
   - title: "Colophon"

diff --git a/_data/ui-text.yml b/_data/ui-text.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 en: &DEFAULT_EN
   skip_links                 : "Skip links"
   skip_primary_nav           : "Skip to primary navigation"
-  skip_content               : "Skip to content"
+  skip_content               : "Skip to main content"
   skip_footer                : "Skip to footer"
   page                       : "Page"
   pagination_previous        : "Previous"

diff --git a/_includes/author-profile-custom-links.html b/_includes/author-profile-custom-links.html
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+<li>
+    <a href="{{ '/elsewhere' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
+    <i class="fas fa-seedling" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Elsewhere
+    </a>
+</li>
+<li>
+    <a href="{{ '/featured-pages' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
+    <i class="fas fa-map-marked-alt" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>Featured Pages
+    </a>
+</li>
+<!--
 <li>
     <a href="{{ '/' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="me">
     <i class="fas fa-home" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>/Home
@@ -13,12 +24,7 @@
     <i class="fas fa-book-open" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>/Reading
     </a>
 </li>
-<li>
-    <a href="{{ '/elsewhere' | relative_url }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
-    <i class="fas fa-seedling" aria-hidden="true" style="margin-right: .5em;"></i>/Elsewhere
-    </a>
-</li>
-
+-->
 <!--
 <li>
     <a href="http://link-to-whatever-social-network.com/user/" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">

diff --git a/_includes/notes_graph.json b/_includes/notes_graph.json
diff --git a/_layouts/default.html b/_layouts/default.html
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+---
+
+<!doctype html>
+{% include copyright.html %}
+<html lang="{{ site.locale | slice: 0,2 | default: "en" }}" class="no-js">
+  <head>
+    {% include head.html %}
+    {% include head/custom.html %}
+  </head>
+
+  <body class="layout--{{ page.layout | default: layout.layout }}{% if page.classes or layout.classes %}{{ page.classes | default: layout.classes | join: ' ' | prepend: ' ' }}{% endif %}">
+    <a href="#main" class="screen-reader-shortcut">{{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].skip_content | default: 'Skip to main content' }}</a>
+    {% comment %}{% include_cached skip-links.html %}{% endcomment%}
+    {% include_cached masthead.html %}
+
+    <div class="initial-content">
+      {{ content }}
+      {% include after-content.html %}
+    </div>
+
+    {% if site.search == true %}
+      <div class="search-content">
+        {% include_cached search/search_form.html %}
+      </div>
+    {% endif %}
+
+    <div id="footer" class="page__footer">
+      <footer>
+        {% include footer/custom.html %}
+        {% include_cached footer.html %}
+      </footer>
+    </div>
+
+    {% include scripts.html %}
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/_layouts/home.html b/_layouts/home.html
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ <h1>Hi, I'm Ryan.</h1>
 
 <h2>Featured Sections</h2>
 
-<div style="display: grid; grid-gap: 1em; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 0.5fr);">
+<div style="display: grid; grid-gap: 1em; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 0.5fr);"> 
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="blog-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/posts/">Blog</a><br><span id="blog-desc">Somewhat regular posts.</span></div>
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="bookmarks-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/bookmarks/">Bookmarks</a><br><span id="bookmarks-desc"></span>Annotated links.</span></div>
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="notes-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/notes/">Notes</a><br><span id="notes-desc">My digital garden.</span></div>
-    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="reading-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/reading/">Reading</a><br><span id="reading-desc">What I'm reading.</span></div>
+    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="reading-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/Reading/">Reading</a><br><span id="reading-desc">What I'm reading.</span></div>
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="colophon-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/colophon/">Colophon</a><br><span id="colophon-desc">How I make this site.</span></div>
-    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="elsewhere-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/elsewhere/">Elsewhere</a><br><span id="elsewhere-desc">I am also here.</span></div>
+    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" aria-describedby="links-rhizome-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/links-rhizome/">Links Rhizome</a><br><span id="links-rhizome-desc">I am also here.</span></div>
 </div>
 
 <h2>Featured Posts</h2>

diff --git a/_pages/blips.md b/_pages/blips.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+permalink: /blips/
+title: "Blips"
+layout: single
+# last_modified_at:
+# header: 
+#  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
+#  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
+toc: false
+featured_pages: true
+quip: "Microblogging, right here."
+---
+
+Blog posts, but smaller. "Microblogging," if you will.  
+
+{% for post in site.categories.blips %}
+    {% include archive-single.html type=page.entries_layout %}
+{% endfor %}
diff --git a/_pages/blogroll.md b/_pages/blogroll.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: "Blogroll"
 date: 2024-02-18
 last_modified_at: 2024-02-18
 toc: true
+featured_pages: true
 ---
 
 Blogs! They're like podcasts for reading!  

diff --git a/_pages/bookmarks.md b/_pages/bookmarks.md
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ classes: wide
 #  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
 #  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
 # toc: true
+featured_pages: true
 ---
diff --git a/_pages/colophon.md b/_pages/colophon.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ header:
   image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
   image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks with cute stickers on their covers"
 toc: true
+featured_pages: true
 ---
 
 Colophon  

diff --git a/_pages/elsewhere.md b/_pages/elsewhere.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ last_modified_at: 2024-01-30
 #  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
 #  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
 toc: true
+featured_pages: true
 ---
 Here are some of the places I've [rhizomatically]({{ '/links-rhizome' | relative_url }}) popped up online, around this site and beyond.  
 

diff --git a/_pages/featured-pages.md b/_pages/featured-pages.md
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+---
+permalink: /featured-pages/
+title: "Featured Pages"
+---
+
+Several Pages Galore
+
+<div style="display: grid; grid-gap: 1em; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 0.5fr); margin-bottom: 1em;">
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="blips-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/blips/">Blips</a><br>
+        <div><span id="blips-desc">Hyperlocal microblogging, if you will.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="blogroll-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/blogroll/">Blogroll</a><br>
+        <div><span id="blogroll-desc">Blogs you might also enjoy following.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="booksmarks-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/bookmarks/">Bookmarks</a><br>
+        <div><span id="bookmarks-desc">Bookmarks I'd like to share.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="colophone-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/colophon/">Colophon</a><br>
+        <div><span id="colophon-desc">Info on how I make this site.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="elsewhere-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/elsewhere/">Elsewhere</a><br>
+        <div><span id="elsewhere-desc">Other places you can find me online.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="now-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/now/">Now</a><br>
+        <div><span id="now-desc">Some things I'm currently doing.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="reading-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/reading/">Reading</a><br>
+        <div><span id="reading-desc">What I'm reading at the moment.</span></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="uses-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/uses/">Uses</a><br>
+        <div><span id="uses-desc">Some apps and other things I use.</span></div>
+    </div>
+<!--    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="ways-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/ways/">Ways</a><br>
+        <div><span id="ways-desc">Ways I do things (and you might too).</span></div>
+    </div>
+-->
+<!-- 
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a aria-describedby="PAGE-desc" href="{{ site.url }}/…/"></a><br>
+        <div><span id="PAGE-desc"></span></div>
+    </div>
+-->
+    {% comment %}{% assign featured_pages = site.pages | where: 'featured_pages','true' %}
+    {% for page in featured_pages %}
+    {% endfor %}
+    <div class="backlink-box">
+        <a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ page.title }}</a><br>
+        <!-- <a class="internal-link"
+            href="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ backlink.url }}{%- if site.use_html_extension -%}.html{%- endif -%}">{{
+            backlink.title }}</a><br> -->
+        <div style="font-size: 0.9em">{{ page.quip | markdownify | truncatewords: 20 }}</div> <!-- initially was backlink.excerpt | strip_html | truncatewords: 20 -->
+    </div>
+    {% endcomment %}
+</div>
+{% comment %}
+{% assign main_pages = site.pages | where: 'main_pages','true' %}
+{% for page in main_pages %}
+    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large>
+<!-- 
+  <li >
+    <a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ page.title }}</a>
+  </li>
+-->
+{% endfor %}
+{% endcomment %}
diff --git a/_pages/now.md b/_pages/now.md
@@ -7,20 +7,21 @@ last_modified_at: 2024-03-19
 #  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
 #  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
 toc: true
+featured_pages: true
 ---
-## What I'm Doing Currently  
 
-Here's some of what I'm currently doing, as of Spring 2024. (More specifically, I'm writing this on {{ page.last_modified_at }}):  
-- Re-learning Spanish as part of my Ph.D. program. My current class is my last of four required semesters, and it feels great to be back to where I can read somewhat complicated fiction in Spanish.  
-- Mostly [[beginning-to-use-obsidian|using Obsidian]] for notes. Its ability to mix dynamic queries with markdown notes has made keeping track of tasks a lot smoother than doing so was in Dendron or any other tool I've tried.  
-- Continuing my first viewing of _Star Trek_. We started with _Deep Space Nine_, then went to the original series, and have continued watching all the series and movies in order. At this point we're up to the third season of _Enterprise_.  
-- Planning to add a theme switcher to my site, which also means I'll need to simplify the css for the theme and figure out how it will interact with the current code for the automatic light/dark theme switch. I keep bumping this whole project into the future since other things in life are far more urgent, but it's the next obvious change you're likely to notice on this site.  
-- Reading a few [books in parallel]({{ '/reading' | relative_url }}), a practice I'm realizing I've missed. Switching between them seems to help me think more clearly about the particularities of each, as well as find interesting resonances between them.  
+{{ site.categories.now[0].content }}
 
 ## Right About `/Now`  
 
 This page is inspired by Derek Sivers's [/now](https://sivers.org/nowff) page.  
 
+As of June 2024, I've adopted Derek Kedziora's very clever [dynamic now page](https://derekkedziora.com/blog/dynamic-now-page) approach. This approach uses Jekyll's post category features to display the most recent post as the top content on this page (above the "Right About `/Now`" heading) and create the below links to past updates.  
+
 ## The Long `/Now`  
 
-You can [view this page's source history](https://github.com/ryan-p-randall/ryan-p-randall.github.io/commits/develop/_pages/now.md).  
+<ul>
+{% for post in site.categories.now offset: 1 %}
+    <li><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
+{% endfor %}
+</ul>
diff --git a/_pages/reading.md b/_pages/reading.md
@@ -7,13 +7,12 @@ title: "Reading"
 #  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
 #  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
 toc: true
+featured_pages: true
 ---
 
-I've occasionally kept track of what I'm reading on BookWyrm, Goodreads, or similar sites.  
+I've occasionally used BookWyrm, Goodreads, or similar sites for sharing what I'm reading.  
 
-As an ongoing experiment with centralizing things to this site, I'm going to try doing so here as well/instead. I often read multiple books and articles in parallel, so I plan to annotate my progress here.  
-
-I plan to add links to reading notes in my digital garden once I'm done, as a type of review.  
+Now, I track this here. I often read multiple books and articles in parallel, and I annotate my progress here.  
 
 ## Currently Reading  
 

diff --git a/_pages/uses.md b/_pages/uses.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ last_modified_at: 2023-11-21
 #  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
 #  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
 toc: true
+main_pages: true
 ---
 
 Much like a [colophon]({% link _pages/colophon.md %}), it's intriguing—and sometimes even useful—to see what other people use as they work. Hence, the [/uses](https://uses.tech/) page convention.  

diff --git a/_pages/ways.md b/_pages/ways.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+permalink: /ways/
+title: "Ways"
+layout: single
+# last_modified_at:
+# header: 
+#  image: /assets/images/pocket-notebooks.jpg
+#  image_description: "ryan's pocket notebooks"
+toc: false
+published: false
+---
+
+Some ways I currently do things. (A practice inspired by L. Rhodes's [Ways folder](https://destructured.net/practice-ways) convention.)  
+
+{% for post in site.categories.ways %}
+    {% include archive-single.html type=page.entries_layout %}
+{% endfor %}
diff --git a/now/_posts/2020-06-19-now-july-2020.md b/now/_posts/2020-06-19-now-july-2020.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: "Now July 2020"
+modified:
+categories: [now]
+excerpt: "Some of what I'm doing as of July 2020."
+tags: []
+# header:
+#  image: /assets/images/weekly-assemblage.png
+#  caption: 'Photo credit: [**Unsplash**](https://unsplash.com)'
+published: true
+toc: true
+comments:
+date: 2020-06-19T12:24:02-6:00
+---
+
+## Summer 2020
+
+Here are some of the things I'm currently doing, as of Summer 2020:  
+
+- Staying home as much as I can & wearing a mask whenever I can't. In entirely related news, I'm also re-learning how to cut my own hair. 💈✂️  
+- Developing [InfoLit for Everyone](https://infolit-idaho.github.io/infolit-for-everyone/about/) with a [wonderful crew](https://www1.rebus.community/#/project/379f6355-8f50-4b7f-9408-ab88cb3eafd5) of other Idaho library & education workers. I'm grateful to also be learning from the fantastic people behind the [Rebus Textbook Success Program](https://www.rebus.community/c/textbook-success-program/120) as part of doing this!  
+- Putting together my qualifying exam lists for my Ph.D. I'm stoked about getting to work with my committee members & excited about my topic, so I'll probably be sharing lots more about that on here soon.  
+- Related to the above, I'm revamping some bits of this site.  
+  - First, I'm starting to do some monthly posts I'm calling ["signal boosts"]({% post_url 2020-07-01-introducing-monthly-signal-boosts %}), largely inspired by [Jess Schomberg's Monthly Reading Lists](https://schomj.weebly.com).  
+  - Second, I'm considering how to add some sort of [digital garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) or wonky wiki for my research, since my previous attempt at maintaining a separate [Research Notebook](http://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/research-notebook/) always felt too formal (and technically duplicative / clumsy), when what I was hoping for was trying to [work with the garage door up](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z21cgR9K3UcQ5a7yPsj2RUim3oM2TzdBByZu). I'm trying to decide between adapting [Tom Critchlow's folder-based model](https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/) or [Mike Tannenbaum's liquid-based version](https://mind.miketannenbaum.com) of [Maxime Vaillancourt's theme](https://maximevaillancourt.com/blog/setting-up-your-own-digital-garden-with-jekyll).  
+- And absolutely saving the best for last: getting married! 🎉‼️ Instead of postponing until our family & friends could be here in person, we got married in our backyard. Two of our best friends were there, one to officiate & the other to juggle some of the tech aspects of streaming it to our attendees.  
diff --git a/now/_posts/2022-06-29-now-june-2022.md b/now/_posts/2022-06-29-now-june-2022.md
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+title: "Now June 2022"
+modified:
+categories: [now]
+excerpt: "Some of what I'm up to as of June 2022."
+tags: []
+# header:
+#  image: /assets/images/weekly-assemblage.png
+#  caption: 'Photo credit: [**Unsplash**](https://unsplash.com)'
+published: true
+# toc: true
+comments:
+date: 2022-06-29
+---
+
+## Summer 2022  
+
+Here are some of the things I'm currently doing, as of Summer 2022. Not a ton has changed since Summer 2020, both for better and for worse.  
+
+- The biggest thing is switching from working as a librarian to working as an instructional designer for online courses. While this seems to be a big change to other people, I mostly feel continued concerns:  
+    - how is information shared?  
+    - how can these documents or interfaces be improved?  
+    - how can we save the time of the learner?  
+    - what does research (and affected communities) say about making this more accessibile to the widest possible set of learners?  
+    - which needs and communities are being left out, and how can we remedy that?  
+- I'm quite happy to be growing far more familiar with the [Quality Matters rubric](https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/rubric-standards/higher-ed-rubric) and the [Universal Design for Learning](https://www.cast.org/impact/universal-design-for-learning-udl) framework.  
+- Just as I was in Summer 2022, I'm staying home as much as I can—and I'm getting things curbside and wearing a mask whenever I can't. In entirely related news, I'm slowly getting better at cutting my own hair. 💈✂️  
+- I'm also still putting together my qualifying exam lists for my Ph.D.  
+- After lots of experimentation, I've worked out how I'll do a [digital garden](https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/notes/) using Jekyll for now.  
+- I'm enjoying the free, open-source notetaking tool [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so/) so much that I donate to its ongoing development each month, as well as volunteering as part of its supportive user community. I'm also writing [notes about how I use it](https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/notes/Note-taking/Dendron/beginning-to-use-dendron)!  
+- Watching _Deep Space Nine_ for the first time, occasionally wondering how I went without watching the series for so long, and realizing that line of thought isn't a very "now" approach, now is it?  
diff --git a/now/_posts/2023-05-18-now-may-2023.md b/now/_posts/2023-05-18-now-may-2023.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+title: "Now May 2023"
+modified:
+categories: [now]
+excerpt: "Some of what I'm doing as of May 2023."
+tags: []
+# header:
+#  image: /assets/images/weekly-assemblage.png
+#  caption: 'Photo credit: [**Unsplash**](https://unsplash.com)'
+published: true
+# toc: true
+comments:
+date: 2023-05-18
+---
+
+## Summer 2023
+
+Here's some of what I'm currently doing, as of Summer 2023.  
+- I'm re-learning Spanish as part of my Ph.D. program requirements. I haven't formally used Spanish since junior year of high school… back when Tupac was still alive. Since then I've learned Latin, and then French (for reading purposes only), so I'm able to get the gist of most Romance languages. I'm definitely stoked to be re-learning Spanish, though! Maybe I'll end up reading some of Manuel Castells' works for the dissertation project, or other academic things, in addition to just being closer to verbally fluent again?  
+- I'm still using the free, open-source notetaking tool [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so/), even though it's moved from active development to primarily being in a "maintenance mode." I've got my eye on Obsidian, should I ever need to switch, but I've decided that I like Dendron and VS Code enough that I'm not going to move until something makes me do so.  
+- Continuing my first viewing of _Star Trek_. We started with _Deep Space Nine_, then went to the original series, and now we're up to _Voyager._