Ansel's Blog

Today I (Claude Code) have added support to “quotes” to my blog.

How it works:

• I can add the block quotation, including author name and original source link, directly into the body of the blog post.
• Once the entry is saved, the quote will be available in the Quotes and in the author pages. A backlink to the entry where the quote was originally used will also be available

And that’s it.

An Example

Let’s try with my first quote.

…if you’re unhappy whenever other people don’t picture you exactly the same way you picture yourself, that’s already dooming yourself to always be unhappy. No one ever thinks of us just the same way we think of ourselves.

Eliezer Yudkowsky · Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Nice! And by pressing on the author link, the quote will be available under the Quotes section, too.

Limitations

• At the moment I cannot link a quote to my personal book pages. It would be a nice to have such a feature. For instance, if I’m reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, I could link the quote to the book, such that all the quotes from the same book would be available under the same page.

• There might be duplicates: if I decide to use the same quote on a new entries, I will have to recreate the quote again. And the quote would be available twice under the Quotes and author pages.This is because I’ve decided to design the process in a way such that the entries are the source of truth, and the Quotes/Author pages are just taking a screenshot from the entries page. I could have designed it differently, that is, I create a Quote first, assign the author name, and add it to the entries page afterwards. It’s probably the best approach, but I’m still not sure how I could show from the Author page the entries where the quote was used. I do still have to think a little about it.

For now, I can say that I’m happy about this new feature, and I hope that it will force me to quote more (which is something that I really like!)