[plan] Content strategy: Markdown Everywhere series + use-case guides

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Planning doc: docs/plans/content-map.md. Direction set by Rufus 2026-07-18: markdown + ecosystem is the headline, Flowershow secondary (appears inside guides as the publish step); existing MOGF tutorials untouched for now.

Pillars:

• A. Markdown Everywhere: hub page (logo grid, support tiers incl. name-and-shame) + "How to use Markdown in X" spoke articles (P1: WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Google Docs✅, Notion, AI chats, Obsidian, Apple Notes✅) — SEO engine
• B. Learn: basics.md upgrade (it already ≈ the Datopian playbook intro — verified same text) + use-case guides (P1: replace Notion; build a knowledge base)
• C. Essays: manifesto voice revision (Voice: manifesto (and site prose) reads AI-y — restore Rufus's voice #58) before launch; markdown-database ✅ is HN-ready
• D. Chrome: Everywhere in nav, hub↔spoke linking, llms.txt/sitemap

Proposed build order in the doc (12-item P1 queue). Review the doc, then implementation starts top of queue.

Part of #46 (supersedes/absorbs #52 'Markdown Everywhere' — closing that as folded in here).

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Progress + map update (2026-07-18):

Map updated per Rufus's direction: (a) Markdown-based X elevated to its own section — full brainstormed list in content-map.md, stub-first approach, websites as multi-part flagship with 'markdown supports HTML' as a core lesson; (b) videos integrated (channel reviewed: 15 videos, ~10 markdown-general); (c) team onboarding path added (Life Itself use case — likely absorbs legacy #1).

Shipped (commit 7fbbaab, live after redeploy):

• /everywhere hub + 5 spokes: WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Notion, ChatGPT/AI chats
• /markdown-based index + flagship /markdown-websites + 10 guide stubs (blogs, KBs, Notion-alternative, databases, wikis, docs, gardens, journals, bookmarking, books)
• /videos (8 embeds matched to guides) + /learn/onboarding
• Nav: + Guides, Everywhere. 53 pages, 0 broken links.

Remaining P1: basics.md upgrade · deepen replace-Notion + KB guides (currently stubs) · Apple/Obsidian/GitHub spokes · llms.txt/sitemap · manifesto voice revision (#58) — then launch prep (#60) while Rufus is unavailable for launch (~a week).

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Essays progress: markdown-notion-alternative and markdown-knowledge-bases expanded from stubs to full first-pass guides (voice-profile-driven, lint-clean). Manifesto rewritten from Rufus's draft (#58). Next up: markdown-websites deepening (it's already half-full), blogs/wikis, remaining Everywhere spokes, basics upgrade.

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Round 3 shipped (commits 585c30d, f10789e):

• Full-pass guides: markdown-websites (restructured, HTML-superpower part, videos), markdown-blogs, markdown-wikis (git-does-the-hard-parts framing, Life Itself onboarding tie-in)
• Four new Everywhere spokes: Obsidian ('the app that IS markdown'), GitHub (GFM reference table incl. alerts/mermaid), Reddit, Telegram (chat vs MarkdownV2) — hub fully linked, no 'guide coming' stubs left in P1
• basics.md upgraded: fixed inverted checkbox labels + dead goo.gl image from the 2022 version, added tables/wikilinks/HTML/frontmatter sections
• Site-wide voice pass via write-like-me + lint: down to 2 intentional at-limit findings; also caught and removed leftover AI-chat residue that was live on /markdown-database ('Around 750 words… Want to tweak anything?')

P1 queue from the content map is now complete except deepening the remaining stubs (databases/docs/gardens/journals/bookmarking/books — P2).

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P2 guides complete: all six remaining stubs are now full guides (databases, docs-as-code, digital gardens, journals, bookmarking, books) — voice-lint clean, pushed. The whole /markdown-based section is now substantive: 11 full guides, zero stubs. Content remaining on this issue: Everywhere P2 spokes (Substack, Gmail, Confluence, Word, Bear/iA/Craft, VS Code, converter pages) and kb polish — post-launch material unless Rufus says otherwise.

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Coggle-gap + reference wave shipped: pluggable-markdown (the plugin-system framing — distinctive, ours), publish-markdown (single-doc on-ramp), markdown-landing-pages, kb/glossary, kb/git-rescue, kb/canon, /timeline, blog stream with 2 posts. Guides section: 13 entries, all full passes. Everywhere P2 spokes remain the main outstanding content line.