🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain
Image credit: UnsplashCreate 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
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:
A Markdown aside is useful for displaying notices, hints, or definitions to your readers.
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I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Ai4City-Lab, Urban Governance and Design Thrust, Society Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), under the supervision of Prof. Wufan Zhao and Prof. Yuan Liu. Prior to this, I obtained my Master’s degree from the School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University, where I was advised by Prof. Wuming Zhang and Prof. Yiping Chen.
My research focuses on 3D visual perception, intelligent interpretation and processing of point cloud data, and multi-modal urban foundation models. I am particularly interested in bridging geometric understanding with semantic reasoning in large-scale urban environments, with an emphasis on open-vocabulary learning, training-free paradigms, and cross-modal fusion between 2D and 3D data.
My goal is to develop scalable, interpretable, and generalizable AI systems for urban analysis, enabling applications such as digital twin construction, urban scene understanding, and intelligent infrastructure management.