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🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain

Oct 26, 2023·
Simona Gurrì
Simona Gurrì
· 2 min read
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Create a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.

Hugo Blox web framework empowers you with one of the most flexible note-taking capabilities out there.

Create a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Use it as your second brain, either publicly sharing your knowledge with your peers via your website, or via a private GitHub repository and password-protected site just for yourself.

Mindmaps

Hugo Blox supports a Markdown extension for mindmaps.

With this open format, can even edit your mindmaps in other popular tools such as Obsidian.

Simply insert a Markdown code block labelled as markmap and optionally set the height of the mindmap as shown in the example below.

Mindmaps can be created by simply writing the items as a Markdown list within the markmap code block, indenting each item to create as many sub-levels as you need:


```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
  - Hugo Blox
  - netlify
  - netlify-cms
  - slides
```

renders as

- Hugo Modules
  - Hugo Blox
  - netlify
  - netlify-cms
  - slides

Anh here’s a more advanced mindmap with formatting, code blocks, and math:


```markmap
- Mindmaps
  - Links
    - [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
    - [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
    - [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/kit)
  - Features
    - Markdown formatting
    - **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
    - multiline
      text
    - `inline code`
    - Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$
```

renders as

- Mindmaps
  - Links
    - [Hugo Blox Docs](https://docs.hugoblox.com/)
    - [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/z8wNYzb)
    - [GitHub](https://github.com/HugoBlox/kit)
  - Features
    - Markdown formatting
    - **inline** ~~text~~ *styles*
    - multiline
      text
    - `inline code`
    - Math: $x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}$

Highlighting

Highlight important text with mark:

<mark>Highlighted text</mark>

Callouts

Use callouts (aka asides, hints, or alerts) to draw attention to notes, tips, and warnings.

Use the > [!NOTE] syntax to create a callout.

> [!NOTE]
> A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.

renders as

Note

A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.

Or use the warning callout type so your readers don’t miss critical details:

Warning

A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.

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Simona Gurrì
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Simona Gurrì (she/her)
Research Fellow · Reactive CFD for Internal Combustion Engines

Simona Gurrì is a Research Fellow at Politecnico di Torino working on reactive CFD of internal combustion engines fuelled by low-carbon alternatives (hydrogen, CNG, ethanol, methanol) for heavy-duty applications, with a line now extending toward ammonia. Her work combines combustion and turbulence modeling, chemical kinetics, and high-performance simulation, always validated against experimental engine data.

Her core expertise is in engine-scale combustion physics: in-cylinder turbulence-chemistry interactions, injection and mixture formation, and models that support the design and control of advanced internal combustion technologies. She employs CONVERGE CFD for 3D reactive simulations, GT-Power for 1D modeling, and Cantera for chemical kinetics and mechanism benchmarking, on CINECA HPC clusters.

Alongside engine CFD, a background in transportation and freight systems gives her a system-level perspective, connecting engine-scale choices to fleet and network performance — an uncommon dual grounding, directly relevant where engine and vehicle-system research converge. She is currently exploring postdoctoral and R&D opportunities in combustion, energy, and sustainable transport.