✅ Manage your projects

✅ Manage your projects

Oct 23, 2023·
Ria Stevens
Ria Stevens
· 2 min read
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Easily manage your projects - create ideation mind maps, Gantt charts, todo lists, and more!

Ideation

Hugo Blox supports a Markdown extension for mindmaps.

Simply insert a Markdown code block labelled as markmap and optionally set the height of the mindmap as shown in the example below.

Mindmaps can be created by simply writing the items as a Markdown list within the markmap code block, indenting each item to create as many sub-levels as you need:


```markmap {height="200px"}
- Hugo Modules
  - Hugo Blox
  - netlify
  - netlify-cms
  - slides
```

renders as

- Hugo Modules
  - Hugo Blox
  - netlify
  - netlify-cms
  - slides

Diagrams

Hugo Blox supports the Mermaid Markdown extension for diagrams.

An example Gantt diagram:

```mermaid
gantt
section Section
Completed :done,    des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
Active        :active,  des2, 2014-01-07, 3d
Parallel 1   :         des3, after des1, 1d
Parallel 2   :         des4, after des1, 1d
Parallel 3   :         des5, after des3, 1d
Parallel 4   :         des6, after des4, 1d
```

renders as

gantt section Section Completed :done, des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08 Active :active, des2, 2014-01-07, 3d Parallel 1 : des3, after des1, 1d Parallel 2 : des4, after des1, 1d Parallel 3 : des5, after des3, 1d Parallel 4 : des6, after des4, 1d

Todo lists

You can even write your todo lists in Markdown too:

- [x] Write math example
  - [x] Write diagram example
- [ ] Do something else

renders as

  • Write math example
    • Write diagram example
  • Do something else

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Ria Stevens
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Ria Stevens (she/her)
PhD Candidate

I am a fourth-year Computer Science PhD student at Rice University, advised by Dr. Maryam Aliakbarpour and Dr. Tasos Kyrillidis. My research interests lie in theoretical computer science and statistical learning theory. I am particularly interested in problems involving differential privacy. For the winter 2026 semester, I am a visiting graduate student in the Federated and Collaborative Learning program at the Simons Institute in UC Berkeley. I am also passionate about teaching and recently developed and taught a discrete math course for incoming freshmen in Rice’s CS-RESP program.

Before coming to Rice, I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Statistics at McGill University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Drs. Elliot and Courtney Paquette.

Outside of my research, I enjoy playing sports, travelling and discovering new coffee shops. I play ultimate frisbee for Torque, Rice’s women’s club team, and I previously played varsity ice hockey for the McGill Martlets.