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MAY 31 · 2026

First

Replace this with the one line worth pulling out — or remove the field entirely to skip the pull quote.

This is the first entry in Manana. It is a placeholder.

Replace this body with your first thesis, observation, judgment, rant, or whatever demands to be put down before it leaves you. Write as long or as short as you want. There is no template for length, no template for tone. Each manana is the shape it is.

Frontmatter fields

  • title (required) — what this manana is about
  • date (required) — when you wrote it, ISO format 2026-05-31
  • pullQuote (optional) — one line rendered huge in italics inside the entry
  • epigraph (optional) — a line above the title in italics
  • sanskrit (optional) — Devanagari subtitle under the title
  • draft (boolean) — set to true to hide while drafting
  • video (optional) — path like /manana-media/clip.mp4 for self-hosted, or a YouTube/Vimeo embed URL for external
  • videoPoster (optional) — image shown before video plays
  • image (optional) — path like /manana-media/photo.jpg (place files in public/manana-media/)
  • imageAlt (optional) — alt text for accessibility
  • audio (optional) — path like /manana-media/voice-note.mp3

Adding media

Drop the file into public/manana-media/. Reference it in frontmatter as /manana-media/filename.ext. The leading slash is required.

For big videos, also consider Vercel Blob storage or just linking to YouTube/Vimeo via the video field.

Adding a new manana

  1. Create a markdown file: src/content/manana/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md
  2. Write frontmatter + body
  3. Drop any media files into public/manana-media/
  4. Run vercel --prod
  5. Live in ~30 seconds

Delete this entry

When you write your first real manana, delete this file or set draft: true.

Comments

Every entry has a comment section at the bottom. Visitors can leave a name + optional email + a comment. No account, no signup. You moderate via the Cusdis dashboard.

To enable: sign up at cusdis.com, create a site for amanjaiswal.org, copy the App ID, and add it as PUBLIC_CUSDIS_APP_ID in your Vercel project’s environment variables. Re-deploy. Comments appear.

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to enable: sign up at cusdis.com, create a site for amanjaiswal.org, copy the APP_ID, add PUBLIC_CUSDIS_APP_ID=<your-app-id> in Vercel project env vars. re-deploy. comments appear here.