I debuted my Book Notes page last year as a way to house all the notes and quotes I’ve gathered from my decades of reading. Now there’s an updated version with some added functionality—take a look!

More about the why and how behind these changes:

• I wanted to be able to link to a dedicated page for each book’s notes, rather than to an HTML anchor on one giant mile-long page that contained the notes from all 130+ books, which is how it used to be.
• I used Advanced Custom Fields for the custom post format and Filter Everything for the filtering options.
• I went through every single one by myself to clean up the notes formatting, make sure the metadata was correct, and upload my preferred cover images.
• In each one I include my rating, when I read it, and (when applicable) a link to a related blog post about it. Not all of them have an associated blog post, just whichever ones I felt compelled to write something about over the years.

There was probably a more efficient way to accomplish this through AI or vibe coding or an all-in-one plugin. But I’m not into that. As tedious as it was, I enjoyed the drudgery of shaping this corner of my digital garden by hand.

Poke around and shoot me a note if you encounter any weirdness with it.