When you sit down at your computer, ready to jot down some ideas or write a piece, it wouldn’t be nice to have to always explicitly wrap your content in #idea blocks. You can use the #ideate function in combination with a Typst #show rule to implicitly parcel your writing into ideas:
#import "@rookery/core:0.1.0": ideate
#show: ideate
= Let's get rolling
Straight into it without ceremony.This will wrap your writing as an idea, taking the #document.title as its name. Importantly, you can parameterize the #ideate function to parcel your writing out into ideas differently:
#show: ideate.with(separator: heading.where(level: 2))
== First idea
The body of my first idea.
== Second idea
The body of my second idea.This is useful when you want to take writing in Typst that isn’t structured as ideas and import it into a rookery, as you don’t have to retrofit #idea blocks throughout: you just need to design the right #ideate show rule. Ideation also works nicely with Rheo spines, as it means that you can organize your ideas using files and folders and still have them appear in the flat idea space so that they can be further organized using tags.