Lightbi

What is Journaling?

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Journaling is a powerful habit that helps you understand your thoughts and emotions more clearly. By putting pen to paper, you create space to reflect, process, and grow from your daily experiences.

Why you should take notes

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🧠 Boosts memory – Writing things down helps reinforce what you learn and improves recall.
🧩 Clarifies thinking – Note-taking forces you to process and summarize information in your own words.
✅ Keeps you organized – Notes create a structured record you can revisit and build upon.
💡 Sparks creativity – Jotting down thoughts can lead to new connections and fresh ideas.
📚 Supports deeper learning – Regular note reviews help you retain knowledge over the long term.
🛠️ Builds a personal knowledge base – Over time, your notes become a valuable resource tailored to your interests.

Understanding Creative design

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Creative design is the art of solving problems and communicating ideas through visually compelling and imaginative means. It blends aesthetics with functionality, ensuring a message is not only seen but felt. At its core, creative design involves thinking beyond templates and conventional structures to craft original, meaningful solutions.

Sample Post

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This is a sample post where you can understand how this is working.

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Install Hugo in Windows

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hugo comes in three versions: Standard, Extended, and Extended/Deploy. The Standard edition covers core functionalities, while Extended adds advanced options, with Extended/Deploy** offering further deployment features.

Setting Up Your Directories

Open File Explorer and create a folder, e.g., C:\Hugo, and inside it, a bin folder.

Installing Hugo

Download the latest Hugo executable from Hugo releases.

How to use Lightbi theme ?

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, we’ll cover how to install Hugo and set up your first website with the Lightbi theme. For detailed steps, refer to Hugo’s quick-start guide.

Create a New Hugo Site

hugo new site <name of site>
cd <name of site>
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/binokochumolvarghese/lightbi-hugo themes/lightbi-hugo

After completing the steps above, copy the contents of exampleSite/contents into the content folder of your website.

Features of Lightbi

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

General

Three Main Content Sections:
- Blog
- Notes
- Collections (Newsletter)
Responsive Design:
- Built with a mobile-first approach for seamless viewing on any device.
Card-Based Theme:
- Flexible image placement options:
  - Image at the top of the card
  - Image in the middle of the card
  - Image at the bottom of the card
  - No image option
Menu Location Indicator:

Parameters in Lightbi

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Below is a list of configurable parameters in the Lightbi theme, along with descriptions to help you customize your site effectively. You can be adjust the below parameters in your hugo.toml file.

More about Lightbi

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this post, I’ll introduce the theme in detail — exploring its purpose, design philosophy, and key features. I’ll also share various ways you can support and contribute to the development of this theme, whether through feedback, code contributions, translations, or spreading the word.

Understanding Hugo Shortcodes

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hugo shortcodes are powerful tools for adding custom HTML or other special content within Markdown files without complex code. They enable enhanced flexibility and are a core part of Hugo’s functionality, offering reusable snippets for embedding media, custom components, or dynamic content. Below, we’ll explore what shortcodes are and highlight some popular examples.

Lightbi Custom Shortcodes

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

To create your own shortcodes in Hugo, add an HTML file in layouts/shortcodes/. This theme provides the following useful custom shortcodes:

Info card

Displays information in a card format.

Shortcode

{{/* < info_cards header="lorem-ipsum" title="What is Lorem Ipsum?" content="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry." > */}}

Output

What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

Learn to play

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Learning to play an instrument like the guitar opens up a powerful form of self-expression and creativity. It helps improve focus, patience, and discipline—skills that carry over into other areas of life. Music can be a great stress reliever, offering a calming escape from daily routines.

Image Gallery Shortcode

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a custom Hugo shortcode that creates an image gallery in a masonry style using GLightbox, allowing you to specify a folder containing images. This approach will display images from a specified folder in a masonry layout, and each image will open in a lightbox when clicked.

Hosting Your Hugo Site on Netlify

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hosting a Hugo site on Netlify is an effective solution for deploying static websites, combining Hugo’s speed with Netlify’s robust features like continuous deployment, a user-friendly dashboard, and advanced build settings.

Coding is meditation

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Coding is meditation in motion—a quiet, focused journey into logic and creativity. As the world fades away, the mind becomes absorbed in solving problems, line by line.

There’s a rhythm to writing code, a flow that mirrors breath: steady, deliberate, and calming. Distractions dissolve as attention sharpens, revealing clarity in complexity. Like meditation, it cultivates patience, presence, and deep concentration. In the silence of a glowing screen, coding becomes a mindful act of creation.

Enhances critical thinking

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Summarizing and organizing information in your own words forces you to analyze and synthesize content, helping you make connections and deepen your insights.

Supports better organization of ideas

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Note-taking helps structure information logically, making complex topics easier to break down, review, and connect — especially useful for studying, writing, or planning.

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