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@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
-[![Netlify Status](https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/badges/8cfa8785-8df8-4aad-ad35-8f1c790b8baf/deploy-status)](https://app.netlify.com/sites/digital-garden-jekyll-template/deploys)
+# Digital garden Jekyll template + Searching
 
-# Digital garden Jekyll template
-
-Use this template repository to get started with your own digital garden.
-
-**I wrote a tutorial explaining how to set it up: [Setting up your own digital garden with Jekyll](https://maximevaillancourt.com/blog/setting-up-your-own-digital-garden-with-jekyll)**
-
-Preview the template here: https://digital-garden-jekyll-template.netlify.app/
+A template based off of [this template](https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template), incorporating a Jekyll search plugin from [here](https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search).
 
 - Based on Jekyll, a static website generator
 - Supports Roam-style double bracket link syntax to other notes
@@ -15,21 +9,7 @@ Preview the template here: https://digital-garden-jekyll-template.netlify.app/
 - Includes graph visualization of the notes and their links
 - Features a simple and responsive design
 - Supports Markdown or HTML notes
+- *NEW:* Supports searching of existing posts.
 
-<img width="1522" alt="Screen Shot 2020-05-19 at 23 05 46" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/8457808/82400515-7d026d80-9a25-11ea-83f1-3b9cb8347e07.png">
-
-## A note about GitHub Pages
-
-**Update (January 2023)**: it seems that GitHub Pages supports custom plugins now, thanks to GitHub Actions ([view relevant discussion](https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template/discussions/144)).
-
-GitHub Pages only partially supports this template: to power the interactive notes graph, this template uses a custom Jekyll plugin to generate the graph data in [`notes_graph.json`](https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template/blob/7ac331a4113bac77c993856562acc2bfbde9f2f7/_plugins/bidirectional_links_generator.rb#L102), and [GitHub Pages doesn't support custom Jekyll plugins](https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll#plugins).
-
-If you want to use the graph with GitHub Pages, you may try building your garden locally using Jekyll then pushing the result to GitHub Pages.
-
-Alternatively, you may deploy your garden to Netlify and it'll work out of the box. [I wrote a guide explaining how to set this up](https://maximevaillancourt.com/blog/setting-up-your-own-digital-garden-with-jekyll).
-
-If you don't care about the graph, you can simply remove it from this layout, [as explained here](https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template/discussions/132#discussioncomment-3625772).
-
-## License
 
 Source code is available under the [MIT license](LICENSE.md).
diff --git a/_pages/search.md b/_pages/search.md
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+---
+layout: page
+title: Search
+permalink: /search
+---
+
+<input type="text" id="search-input" placeholder="Search blog posts..">
+
+<ul id="results-container"></ul>
+
+<script src="https://unpkg.com/simple-jekyll-search@latest/dest/simple-jekyll-search.min.js"></script>
+
+<script>
+    window.simpleJekyllSearch = new SimpleJekyllSearch({
+        searchInput: document.getElementById('search-input'),
+        resultsContainer: document.getElementById('results-container'),
+        json:'{{ site.baseurl }}/search.json',
+        searchResultTemplate: '<li><a href="{url}?query={query}" title="{desc}">{title}</a></li>',
+        noResultsText: 'No results found',
+        limit: 10
+    });
+</script>
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diff --git a/search.json b/search.json
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+---
+layout: none
+---
+[
+  {% for post in site.notes %}
+    {
+      "title"    : "{{ post.title | escape }}",
+      "category" : "{{ post.category }}",
+      "tags"     : "{{ post.tags | join: ', ' }}",
+      "url"      : "{{ site.baseurl }}{{ post.url }}",
+      "date"     : "{{ post.date }}",
+      "content"  : "{{ post.content | strip_html | strip_newlines | smartify }}"
+    } {% unless forloop.last %},{% endunless %}
+  {% endfor %}
+]
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