Is it possible to list content by category?

[aborruso]

Hi,
I'm making my first step to build my personal website in quarto. I am very excited and happy. And so thanks to all of you

This website will have some pages and a blog.

Inside the blog I will have the "TIL" (Today I have learned) category. I want to give it special attention and in the upper menu I will have both the blog entry and the TIL entry.

I have created this listing for blog

---
title: "Blog"
listing:
  contents: posts
  sort: "date desc"
  type: default
  categories: true
  sort-ui: false
  filter-ui: false
  feed: true
page-layout: full
title-block-banner: true
---

I have the categories and then I can insert in the upper menu the link to https://mysite/blog.html#category=til

But I would like to manage in a customized way the TIL posts.
A way is simply create a TIL folder, in which insert all the TIL posts, and create a new qmd listing file in which set contents: til, and then in my blog listing add also the til content.

I'm writing here to know if there is a native way to list content by category.

Thank you

[mcanouil]

If you display the category, then user can simply click on the category to get only the posts in that category, thus simply add the category url to the navbar.

If you want to complicate things for yourself and readers, you could simply create a subdirectory and in your second listing point to that subdirectory.
The main listing should use all documents, assuming it works recursively.
If this is not the case, then add the main and subdirectory in contents.

[mcanouil]

"Complicated" because you want to have things mixed and separate at the same time.

I did edit the post few seconds after a the post was sent before I finished writing it.

[danieltomasz]

@mcanouil is there plans for any filtering enhancements?
Would be great to have decoupled the way as source posts are stored and how they might be displayed via listings

Changing folder in the future will breaks links to the posts, I would like to store my post chronologically per year/month and create a listings specific categories, which can be quite easily changed. Currently this is not possible, if there is a chance this might be implemented, I will create GitHub issue asking for this.

So what I propose is to not only use name of the file in the listings content, but extending it to use the metadata as well (in this case it would be categories).

This might be implemented in the distant future, but it might involve much more
like implementing the functions like WHERE in Hugo

Filters an array to only the elements containing a matching value for a given field.
Syntax
where COLLECTION KEY [OPERATOR] MATCH

Adding it might be incongruent with quarto current philosophy, but it might improve immensely its capabilities.

[mcanouil]

I am not part of Quarto team so I can't answer.

The idea is not to open an issue if it's going to be implemented, this is a bit pointless, because with or without the issue it would still be happening.
The idea is to open a GitHub Discussion in the "Ideas" category where you formerly make a feature request.
A good feature request explains clearly what the end result should be in terms of inputs/outputs.
You don't have to explain the "how", instead focus on "why" and "what".

[danieltomasz]

Sorry for my confusion about you being part of the developers teams. Thanks for the feedback!

[dragonstyle]

This is potentially relevant starting in Quarto 1.3 #2577