description: "More complex Hugo sites sometimes require creating markdown files you don't want displayed in specific listings."
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tags:
- hugo
- quartz
- webdev
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## What am I Doing?
As part of my effort to beautify my [series](/notes/series-and-navigation/) features, I'm trying to set up a landing page where I can add arbitrary markdown content. You can see an example of one of these pages [here](/series/blogging-with-quartz).
Being able to embed some graphics and write short summaries of each series would be nice, so I've been experimenting with adding `_index.md` and `index.md` files at various places.
## Why doesn't it work?
The problem here is that the query in my `recent.html` partial was fetching pages were a little too vague and caught these
Hugo has a bunch of different ways of grabbing groups of Pages. There's page bundles, taxonomies, and more.
## I picked X
Each page has a [Content Type](https://gohugo.io/content-management/types/) assigned to it. This ends up being the simplest option for filtering for now.
``` {title="recentNotes.html"}
{{$notes := where site.RegularPages "Type" "notes"}}
```
I think the actual smart thing I did was factor the "notes" query into a dedicated partial: `recentNotes.html`.
In a perfect world I'd parameterize this partial, but I'm not really sure that's even possible in Hugo. Partials explicitly accept up to one argument, no more.
