PME Treasure

A searchable web archive of 5,599 forum posts from the Blender Artists Pie Menu Editor thread (2016–2025).

Live Site: https://pluglug.github.io/ba-pme-treasure/

Note: This is NOT official PME documentation. It's a searchable archive / research vault built from the Blender Artists forum thread, primarily to support future PME documentation efforts.

Features

• Full-text search across all posts
• Tag-based navigation with sorting/filtering
• Post type badges (question, answer, showcase, etc.)
• Mobile-friendly design
• Dark/light mode

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start dev server
npx quartz build --serve

# Build for production
npx quartz build

Project Structure

pme-treasure-web/
├── content/           # Markdown source files (Obsidian vault)
│   ├── Posts/         # Forum posts by year (2016-2025)
│   ├── Users/         # Contributor profiles
│   ├── Guides/        # Curated navigation guides
│   ├── _Index/        # Tag Index, Timeline, User Index
│   └── index.md       # Homepage
├── quartz/            # Quartz configuration & components
│   ├── components/    # Custom components (PageList, TagContent, etc.)
│   ├── plugins/       # Transformers, filters, emitters
│   └── styles/        # SCSS stylesheets
├── public/            # Build output (generated)
└── quartz.config.ts   # Site configuration

Data Statistics

Category	Count
Total Posts	5,599
Contributors	760
Solved Questions	1,379
Unsolved Questions	2,016
Years Covered	10 (2016–2025)

Local Usage with Obsidian

To use this archive as a local knowledge base:

1. Clone the repository
2. Open content/ directory as an Obsidian vault (not the repo root)
3. Only edit Markdown files under content/; Quartz files are for site generation

Note: The vault is large (5,599 posts), so initial indexing may take some time.

Customization

Key files for customization:

File	Purpose
quartz.config.ts	Site title, theme colors, plugins
quartz.layout.ts	Page layout, components
quartz/styles/custom.scss	Custom CSS/SCSS
quartz/components/PageList.tsx	Post listing format
quartz/components/pages/TagContent.tsx	Tag page behavior

Built With

• Quartz 4 - Static site generator for Obsidian
• Obsidian - Knowledge base format
• Claude - AI classification and data processing

Related Projects

• PME on Gumroad - Original addon
• PME-F Fork - Community fork
• PME Documentation - Official documentation (WIP)

License

• Content: Community-contributed; original authors retain rights
• Code: MIT License

Credits

• Original PME addon by roaoao
• Data extracted from Blender Artists
• Archive maintained by Pluglug