[idea:idea-template]reference2026-08-20

Idea page template

Each idea in your rookery gets its own page. By default, it shows the idea’s title and ID, its body, and the context and backlinks footer. You can set a template for it—to add a site header and footer, for example—like so:

#let idea-page-template(id: none, note: (:), doc) = {
  show: chrome.with(current-page: id)
  doc
}

#show: rookery.with(
  idea-page-template: idea-page-template,
)

Reference

[idea:config-reference]Argument reference

Parameter	Default	What it sets
`prefix`	`"idea"`	The namespace an idea’s ID lives in; non-empty, no `:` (the separator is added for you). See referencing ideas.
`window-depth`	`0`	How many levels of transclusion are allowed before a window bottoms out as a link to the idea’s own page. `0` allows none. See controlling window depth.
`theme`	`(:)`	The five colors the package will style for you; each key is also a parameter in its own right, and the granular form wins. See theming a rookery.
`idea-page-template`	`none`	Your own chrome for the standalone page rookery mints per idea. See idea template.
`bibliography`	`none`	Typst’s own `#bibliography` arguments, for the single bibliography a rookery’s citations all draw from.
`index-page`	`true`	Whether to mint `ideas/index.html`, a landing page listing every idea in the rookery. Set it to `false` where your site already publishes an index of its own.
`refs`	`true`	Whether rookery installs the `show ref:` rule that renders `@idea:etal` as the idea rather than a figure number. Set it to `false` to keep Typst’s own behaviour, or to install a rule of your own. See hyperlinks.
`ref-target`	`"page"`	Where every `@idea:etal` in the document lands: `"page"` on the idea’s standalone page, `"anchor"` in the context it was hatched in. Ignored when `refs` is `false`. See hyperlinks.
`syndicate`	`false`	Whether each minted page also carries an `<rssfeed:item>` beacon, so a feed package can collect your ideas without either package importing the other. Off by default: a package should not write into another’s label namespace unasked. An idea with no date never gets one.

[idea:class-reference]HTML class reference

You can also style more granularly with your own CSS using the classes below. A trailing * below stands for a family whose members are named in the description.

Class	What it is
`.idea-box`	An idea’s own block where it was written, carrying the left rule and the padding every rookery block nested inside it measures from.
`.idea-head`, `.idea-tab`	The heading group, and the short top rule the ID straddles at the card’s corner.
`.idea`, `.idea-title`	The idea’s heading element—which carries the anchor an `@idea:etal` fragment resolves to—and the title text inside it.
`.idea-label`, `.idea-date`	The `[idea:etal]` permalink and the date beside it, in a heading, a window summary or prose, wherever either is shown.
`.idea-tag`, `.idea-tag-<tag>`	A tag pill in the hat, and one extra class per tag the idea carries. The second reaches every surface that names the tag—the idea’s heading, its box, its outline row, its pill, and a search result’s chip, which JavaScript builds in the browser—so a single rule of your own styles a tag everywhere it shows up.
`.idea-ref`	An `@idea:other` reference in prose. See referencing ideas.
`.idea-window`	A transclusion, wearing the same rule and indent as `.idea-box`; the second class `.idea-window-plain` opts a bare `#idea-body` out of that box.
`.idea-window-*`	The fold: `-details` the `<details>`, `-summary` the row you click, `-title` and `-date` the two things in that row, `-body` what folds away under it.
`.idea-outline*`	A page’s outline: `.idea-outline` the list at each level of nesting, `-title` its “Contents” label, `-row` one row per idea.
`.idea-footnote*`	An idea’s own footnotes, carried on every surface it appears on: `.idea-footnotes` the block, `-title` its label, `.idea-footnote-list` and `.idea-footnote` its entries.
`.idea-fn-*`	`-ref` the superscript mark in prose, `-backlink` the way back up to it from the entry.
`.idea-references`, `.idea-page-refs`	The bibliography an idea’s citations draw from, and the page’s own for citations written outside any idea.
`.idea-footer*`	On an idea page: `.idea-footer` the ruled-off apparatus under the note, `-title` the label on each of its sections.
`.idea-context`, `.idea-backlinks`	That footer’s two sections: where the note was written, and the notes pointing at it.
`.idea-page-list`, `.idea-page-row`	A list of pages in either section, and one row in it—a page cannot fold, so it wears a window’s shape without being one.