Compass Tools is the working name for the practical software that keeps Cedar Harbor Studios online and organized.
The first real piece is the system behind this website: Markdown journal entries, structured metadata, shared page templates, preview images, generated indexes, and deployment-ready HTML for the live .com.
It is not flashy, and that is the point. Compass Tools is the quiet layer that turns project notes into public pages, moves images into the right place, rebuilds the Studio Journal, and publishes the site without hand-editing server files.
Tooling Goals
- Keep journal entries readable as plain Markdown.
- Use explicit metadata for titles, dates, categories, projects, previews, and links.
- Generate the website pages, journal index, SEO tags, and sitemap from source content.
- Let the desktop editor add, edit, remove, back up, and publish entries without touching Nginx by hand.
- Keep the live site simple enough to serve as static files from the web server.