Adding and updating content

In this guide you will:

• add additional local files to your site, both Markdown .md and Jupyter notebooks ipynb
• link to a second project on Curvenote, to include it’s content in your website
• pull updated content from Curvenote
• customise the navigation of your site

Add a new project within my website project¶

Let’s assume the local project folder has the following structure and content, in this case containing a content/myblog subfolder that is linked to a project (also called myblog in this example) on Curvenote.

In this case, myblog is my “root” project and the primary project associated with my website. A folder structure like this is typical when you start with a Curvenote project.

_build/*
public/
	logo.svg
content/blog
		images/
        	DOHMeg040aVXqR51yjBy-v1.jpg
		_toc.yml
		welcome.md
		my-first-post.md
		my-first.notebook.ipynb
curvenote.yml

The corresponding website looks like this:

🛠️ To add additional projects to your root project, run curvenote clone:

> curvenote clone
? Link to Curvenote project: (https://curvenote.com/@templates/curvespace)

🛠️ Next, choose the name of the local sub-folder where content for this project will be placed, the default location is based on the project name and is usually a good choice.

? Link to Curvenote project: https://curvenote.com/@stevejpurves/geoscience/phase-and-the-hilbert-transform
Validating link...
🚀 Found "geoscience" (@stevejpurves/geoscience)
? Name of local folder to sync to? (content/geoscience)

Next, the content for the projects you just cloned will be pulled to your local file system, you can also do this later with curvenote pull.

This command may take some time depending on how much content is in your project, but it will create local copies of all Articles (as markdown files .md), Notebooks (as .ipynb files) and linked content such as images and citations.

Content successfully added 🎉

The local folder structure will have been expanded with the additional content and configuration files, to be something like this:

_build/*
public/
	logo.svg
content/
	blog/
  		curvenote.yml
    	welome.md
      	...
    geoscience/
    	curvenote.yml
      	paper.md
        ...
    another-project/
    	curvenote.yml
      	notebook.ipynb
        ...
curvenote.yml

🛠️ Run curvenote start to see the site expanded with new content. In the example below, we actually added two new projects, each of which appears as new items in the Navigation on top of the site, and each of which has its own Table of Contents on the left-hand side when navigated to.

Next Steps¶

Now that you have linked projects contributing content to your website, you will need to pull updates from Curvenote check the next section on pulling updated content. When projects are added it’s often necessary to tweak the wording and layout of the navigation elements, check the section Customizing Navigation for how to achieve that.

Pulling updated content¶

Pulling updates from Curvenote is achieved using the curvenote pull command and will replace all local content with updated content from Curvenote.

🛠️ In the root of the local folder, run curvenote pull

curvenote pull
? Pulling content will overwrite all content in folders. Are you sure? (y/N)

This command will pull content for all projects in one go. To pull updated content for a single project add the local content path to the command e.g. curvenote pull content/myblog

curvenote pull content/myblog
? Pulling will overwrite all content in content/myblog. Are you sure? Yes
Pulling content/myblog from "myblog" (@stevejpurves/myblog)
🚀 Pulled content/myblog in 3.54 s

Customizing Navigation¶

When projects are added to your site, the curvenote.yml file in the root folder is updated to contain the linking information for each project. When projects are added titles are generated based on project names. The curvenote.yml file for the example site we’ve shown here is:

version: 1
site:
  title: My Blog
  domains:
    - stevejpurves.curve.space
  logo: public/logo.svg
  logoText: My Blog
  twitter: stevejpurves
  nav:
    - title: Blog
      url: /myblog
    - title: geoscience
      url: /geoscience
    - title: Computational Finance
      url: /computational-finance
  projects:
    - path: content/myblog
      slug: myblog
    - path: content/geoscience
      slug: geoscience
    - path: content/computational-finance
      slug: computational-finance
  actions:
    - title: Learn More
      url: https://curvenote.com/docs/web

🛠️ Update the strings in any of the title fields to change the text that appears on your site, in the banner, Navigation and at the top of the Table of Contents for each section.

Nesting Projects¶

When we added projects to our site, they were automatically added as individual items in the Navigation bar.

Alternatively, projects can be grouped together, which can be helpful to manage space on the Navigation bar when there is a lot of linked content and organise similar content together. To do this change the nav section in the curvenote.yml file from:

nav:
  - title: Blog
	url: /myblog
  - title: geoscience
	url: /geoscience
  - title: Computational Finance
	url: /computational-finance

to:

nav:
  - title: Blog
  	url: /myblog
  - title: Research
  	children:
	  - title: geoscience
		url: /geoscience
	  - title: Computational Finance
		url: /computational-finance

This results in a new Navigation layout like this:

Find out more about customization in Navigation & actions .

Add new local files to a project¶

To add additional files we need to locate the _toc.yml file in the folder beside the content and update it. In this case, this is located at content/blog/_toc.yml.

Opening the _toc.yml for this project we see:

# Table of contents
# Learn more at https://jupyterbook.org/customize/toc.html

format: jb-book
root: welcome
chapters:
	- file: my-first-post
	- file: my-first-notebook

To add additional files, or change the ordering of files whether these be .md or ipynb we can simply extend this list.

# Table of contents
# Learn more at https://jupyterbook.org/customize/toc.html

format: jb-book
root: welcome
chapters:
	- file: my-first-post
	- file: my-first-notebook
    - file: my-second-post
    - file: my-second-notebook

See https://jupyterbook.org/customize/toc.html to learn how to further structure the table of contents.