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Designed around the principles of interconnected note-taking, with support for note maturity stages, network graph visualization, and dense cross-linking.\n\n**Live site**: [stultus.in/notes](https://stultus.in/notes/)\n\n## Preview\n\nHomepage — dark and light:\n\n| Dark | Light |\n| :---: | :---: |\n| ![Homepage, dark](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stultus/kavu/main/images/screenshot-home-dark.png) | ![Homepage, light](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stultus/kavu/main/images/screenshot-home-light.png) |\n\nNetwork graph — force-directed view of all notes coloured by maturity:\n\n| Dark | Light |\n| :---: | :---: |\n| ![Network graph, dark](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stultus/kavu/main/images/screenshot-graph-dark.png) | ![Network graph, light](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stultus/kavu/main/images/screenshot-graph-light.png) |\n\nBrowse-by-topic and the full note index:\n\n| Dark | Light |\n| :---: | :---: |\n| ![Topics and index, dark](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stultus/kavu/main/images/screenshot-topics-dark.png) | ![Topics and index, light](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stultus/kavu/main/images/screenshot-topics-light.png) |\n\n\n## Features\n\n**Homepage**\n- Live garden statistics (total notes, evergreen/growing/seedling counts)\n- Recently Tended and Most Connected entry points\n- Collapsible topic cards for browsing by theme\n- Filterable and sortable full note index\n- Random note discovery button\n- Interactive network graph with search, hover highlighting, and fullscreen mode\n\n**Note Pages**\n- Inline metadata bar: maturity status, dates, reading time\n- Summary subtitle and tag pills\n- Automatic backlinks with summaries\n- Random note navigation\n\n**Tag System**\n- Tag cloud with note counts\n- Sortable tag pages (Recent / A-Z / Status)\n- Related tags discovery based on co-occurrence\n\n**Network Graph**\n- Force-directed graph of all notes and their connections\n- Hover to highlight a node and its neighbors with labels\n- Label collision avoidance\n- Search, zoom, fit-to-view, and fullscreen controls\n- Keyboard shortcuts: `/` search, `F` fit, `Shift+F` fullscreen, `+`/`-` zoom\n\n**Design**\n- Monospace typography (JetBrains Mono, IBM Plex Mono, Fira Code)\n- Nord-inspired color palette with CSS variables\n- Full dark mode support\n- Responsive layout\n- Wikilink-style `[[bracket]]` rendering for internal links\n- Malayalam font support (Manjari)\n\n## Note Maturity\n\nNotes use a `status` frontmatter field to indicate maturity:\n\n| Status | Meaning |\n|--------|---------|\n| `seeding` | Stub or rough idea |\n| `growing` | Developed draft, partially linked |\n| `evergreen` | Polished, well-linked, stable understanding |\n\n## Getting Started\n\n```bash\n# Add as a submodule\ngit submodule add git@github.com:stultus/kavu.git themes/kavu\n```\n\nSet in `hugo.toml`:\n```toml\ntheme = \"kavu\"\nthemesdir = \"./themes\"\n```\n\n### Frontmatter\n\n```yaml\n---\ntitle: \"Your Note Title\"\ndate: 2025-01-01\nlastmod: 2025-01-15\ndraft: false\ntags: [\"topic-a\", \"topic-b\"]\nsummary: \"One-line description of the note.\"\nstatus: \"seeding\"  # seeding | growing | evergreen\ntype: \"note\"       # note | essay | moc | source\n---\n```\n\n### Internal Links\n\nUse absolute paths for internal links to ensure the theme's link resolver works correctly:\n\n```markdown\n[Note Title](/notes/note-slug/)\n```\n\n## Theme credit\n\nKavu renders a small \"Built with Kavu by stultus\" line in the footer by default. 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