I use Quarto to generate my website, which includes my notes.
For the listing of my notes, I wanted a way to feature certain notes. To do that, I created a custom key-value pair in the YAML header of the notes that I named spotlight so that it will be invisible in the listing, and I set the value to a star emoji ⭐:
---
title: "The `hosts` File as a Self-Care Hack to Block Distractions"
subtitle: "Note#156"
id: "156"
date: 2024-06-01
date-modified: ""
date-format: iso
categories: [notes]
spotlight: "⭐"
---Then, in the YAML header of the listing page, I set the fields key to include the custom key-value pair:
---
title: "Notes"
listing:
page-size: 1000
sort:
- "date desc"
- "subtitle desc"
sort-ui: [subtitle, reading-time]
type: table
filter-ui: true
categories: false
fields: [subtitle, title, spotlight, date]
date-format: iso
---See how it renders:
