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+title: "Codex Update"
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+slug: codex-update-2021
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+date: 2021-08-30 03:04:24
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+categories: update
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+excerpt: "New layout and plugin system for codex-server"
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+For a very long time I have been working on improving my writing. Since 2005 I have kept a journal. I always had a bunch of notes laying around in my computer. At some point around 2013 I decided to create my own app to organize my writing and hence **Codex App** was born. It's a node server that renders markdown files from a folder structure on to webpages. Then you can navigate your notes just like a wiki and edit the files on my favorite (*and always changing*) markdown editor.
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+Fast-forward to 2021 and this app is totally outdated. It wasn't a complete wreck because somewhere in 2018 I had done a revamp and added full text search. But the layout felt old, there was no file editing and no way to put the content on the internet without making everything public.
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+Because of all those issues, time went by and I stoped using Codex. Sometimes I used it if I need to search for something in my notes, but besides for that, I didin't use it much.
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+But now I'm working on Kairoscope with my cousin Ben and we really need a shared knoledgebase. Yes, we could use google drive, but we want to move away from google as much as posible. We could also pay for some service like [Notion](https://notion.io), but in the long run that would cost us thousands of dollars.
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+So I decided to update codex. My requirements where it to have a shiny new layout, a markdown editor, authentication, and the ability to upload and download files and folders.
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+For making my life easier (*or more complicated*), I decided to also add a long due plugin system. By making most of this new functionality modular, It would be easier to add new features and I could use codex in diferent scenarios.
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+For a long time I used [Evernote](https://evernote.com) to organize these to things. I tried and switched to many diferent alternatives trying to find the perfec software to organize my **second brain**. But at some point around a decade ago I gave up on finding something and decided to simply *write markdown files saved on a folder structure*.
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+This worked well for a while, but then I started linking between notes. There was a little PHP app called *windex* that rendered a folder structure from you drive on the browser and rendered the `Readme.md` file from the current folder, just like github.
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