diff --git a/content/Essays/template.md b/content/Essays/template.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8473f82bd..000000000
--- a/content/Essays/template.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
----
-draft: true
-title: An Essay
-tags:
-  - essay
-  - incomplete
----
-<script>
-Var remark_config = {
-  Host: ' https://be-far.com/comments ',    site_id: 'remark',
-  }
-</script>
-<script>!function(e,n){for(var o=0;o<e.length;o++){var r=n.createElement("script"),c=".js",d=n.head||n.body;"noModule"in r?(r.type="module",c=".mjs"):r.async=!0,r.defer=!0,r.src=remark_config.host+"/web/"+e[o]+c,d.appendChild(r)}}(remark_config.components||["embed"],document);</script>
-
-This is tan essay.
-
-Comment with [[Projects/quartz-comments|Remark42]] down below!
-<div id="remark42"></div>
diff --git a/content/Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden.md b/content/Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden.md
index 2080e6162..95ca27a50 100644
--- a/content/Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden.md
+++ b/content/Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: "Obsidian: Digital Gardening with Quartz"
-tags: ["meta", "webdev", "moderate"]
+tags:
+  - meta
+  - webdev
+  - difficulty-moderate
 ---
 ...It's this website.
 
@@ -11,4 +14,6 @@ I'll elaborate at some point.
 ### Hiccups
 This was a time and a half to set up RSS for. It used some bastardized form of Atom but with RSS syntax and so neither spec could parse it.
 
-On the bright side, [one PR later](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/pull/407) and Quartz is the only project in the Obsidian ecosystem with an RSS feed. 
\ No newline at end of file
+On the bright side, [one PR later](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/pull/407) and Quartz is the only project in the Obsidian ecosystem with an RSS feed. 
+
+[[Projects/Obsidian/quartz-comments|Adding comments to the site]] was enough of a hassle that I consider it a separate project. Work in progress.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/content/Projects/Obsidian/editor.md b/content/Projects/Obsidian/editor.md
index de30d0df2..28c4e901d 100644
--- a/content/Projects/Obsidian/editor.md
+++ b/content/Projects/Obsidian/editor.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: "Obsidian: Editor"
-tags: ["editor", "notes", "easy"]
+tags:
+  - editor
+  - notes
+  - difficulty-easy
 ---
 Where the hell do I start with this. It's almost as convoluted and fine-tuned as my [[Programs I Like/code-editors|Code Editors]]. This is by no means a complete or current list, I just want to highlight some of the things I've done that have improved Obsidian's usefulness to me.
 
diff --git a/content/Projects/Obsidian/livesync.md b/content/Projects/Obsidian/livesync.md
index 57e3e24ad..88473ac42 100644
--- a/content/Projects/Obsidian/livesync.md
+++ b/content/Projects/Obsidian/livesync.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: "Obsidian: LiveSync"
-tags: ["cloud", "advanced"]
+tags:
+  - cloud
+  - difficulty-advanced
 ---
diff --git a/content/Projects/home.md b/content/Projects/home.md
index 728d54d41..baf151d31 100644
--- a/content/Projects/home.md
+++ b/content/Projects/home.md
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ title: "Projects"
 tags: ["toc", "project"]
 ---
 I assign each project a difficulty level out of the following list:
-- #easy
-- #moderate
-- #advanced
+- #difficulty-easy
+- #difficulty-moderate
+- #difficulty-advanced
 ## Productivity
 - Anything hosted on [[Projects/my-cloud|My Cloud]].
 - My primary note-taker, [[Projects/Obsidian/home|obsidian.md]].
diff --git a/content/Projects/keyboards.md b/content/Projects/keyboards.md
index 4690439d5..e7c037f76 100644
--- a/content/Projects/keyboards.md
+++ b/content/Projects/keyboards.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: A Mechanical Keyboard Journey
-tags: ["diy", "keyboard", "easy"]
+tags:
+  - diy
+  - keyboard
+  - difficulty-easy
 draft: true
----
\ No newline at end of file
+---
diff --git a/content/Projects/memos.md b/content/Projects/memos.md
index 34a82013c..3e8172ca5 100644
--- a/content/Projects/memos.md
+++ b/content/Projects/memos.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 ---
 title: "Project: Memos"
-tags: ["project", "cloud", "productivity", "moderate"]
+tags:
+  - project
+  - cloud
+  - productivity
+  - difficulty-moderate
 ---
 [usememos/memos](https://github.com/usememos/memos) is another knowledge collection-oriented project, albeit with a slightly different audience to [[Programs I Like/obsidian|Obsidian]].
 
diff --git a/content/Projects/my-cloud.md b/content/Projects/my-cloud.md
index bdaa3fe3b..d957d23c5 100644
--- a/content/Projects/my-cloud.md
+++ b/content/Projects/my-cloud.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 ---
 title: My Cloud
-tags: ["moderate", "cloud", "essay", "incomplete"]
+tags:
+  - cloud
+  - essay
+  - incomplete
+  - difficulty-moderate
 ---
 A list of things that I do with cloud servers.
 
diff --git a/content/Projects/my-computer.md b/content/Projects/my-computer.md
index 3e274d607..bc3b2d4a9 100644
--- a/content/Projects/my-computer.md
+++ b/content/Projects/my-computer.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: My Computer
-tags: ["productivity", "linux", "moderate"]
+tags:
+  - productivity
+  - linux
+  - difficulty-moderate
 ---
 I run Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop environment.
 
diff --git a/content/Projects/zotero-lexis-plus.md b/content/Projects/zotero-lexis-plus.md
index 1a74b9346..3b2cc551c 100644
--- a/content/Projects/zotero-lexis-plus.md
+++ b/content/Projects/zotero-lexis-plus.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 ---
-title: "The Tale of Lexis+.js"
-tags: ["programming", "productivity", "project", "moderate"]
+title: The Tale of Lexis+.js
+tags:
+  - programming
+  - productivity
+  - project
+  - difficulty-moderate
 ---
 This is one of the first open source contributions I made that I felt proud of. I think it genuinely solves a problem that I and hundreds of others have.
 ## I am faced with a problem:
diff --git a/content/index.md b/content/index.md
index b7026d132..f99af14df 100644
--- a/content/index.md
+++ b/content/index.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ The Backlinks pane is a list of all pages that link to this site in content. Bec
 This should be a mostly complete textual site listing in case, like me, you find the aforementioned [[#What the hell is that spiderweb thing?|Graph View]] a bit too un-navigable for practical use.
 - [[Projects/home|Projects I've worked on]]
 - [[Programs I Like/home|Programs that I like]]
+- [[Essays/home|Long-form, source-citing articles]]
 - [[Misc/home|Miscellaneous writings]]
 
 ### Epistemological disclosure
@@ -38,4 +39,11 @@ It goes without saying that anything herein constitutes my own opinion and not t
 ### Attribution
 Feel free to properly reference any of the content within in your own gardens or work. Don’t plagiarize. 
 
-**Do not input my work into a generative AI for any purpose, including to train or update the model, explore alternate positions to mine, or to converse with the work.** Keep the moles out of the garden. 
\ No newline at end of file
+**Do not input my work into a generative AI for any purpose, including to train or update the model, explore alternate positions to mine, or to converse with the work.** Keep the moles out of the garden. 
+
+### Privacy/Terms of Use
+- I don't run analytics of any kind on this site.
+- I don't share any of my content with third parties, nor do I consent to third party use of my content which I retain a copyright in.
+	- The sole exception to this policy is that third parties are permitted to link to this webpage in their own content.
+- Comments
+	- The time of posting, username, and comment content are all public facing and stored on the server for the sole purpose of providing a comment service. These are not shared with any third parties except to the extent that someone may access that public facing data through this site.
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diff --git a/quartz.config.ts b/quartz.config.ts
index 420c7187b..9f596685a 100644
--- a/quartz.config.ts
+++ b/quartz.config.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ globalThis.remark_config = remark.options
 
 const config: QuartzConfig = {
   configuration: {
+    defaultDateType: "published",
     pageTitle: "🌱 be-far",
     enableSPA: false,
     enablePopovers: true,