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Private authoring surface

Studio

Choose the lane first. Writing and notes stay text-first, proposals get their own intake sheet, and music, video, and image entries now begin with upload-or-URL media framing.

This writes MDX entries through the GitHub API. Cloudflare Pages publishes them after the rebuild completes.

Choose a lane

Each frame only carries the fields that belong to that content type, so the page no longer behaves like one giant generic form.

Text-first

Text-first editor

Writing

Draft writing with room for body copy, optional source links, and quiet archive metadata.

Text-first

Quick note frame

Note

Keep the surface light: title, body, tags, and any link or related entry you want to pin to it.

Intake sheet

Proposal intake

Proposal

Capture institution, audience, ask, place, and proposal status without carrying the media fields.

Media-first

Upload or URL

Music

Choose between a direct R2 upload or an external music URL, then fill the surrounding archive metadata.

Media-first

Upload or URL

Video

Start with the asset or external link, then wrap it in the metadata needed for the archive.

Media-first

Upload or URL

Image

Send the file to R2 or point at an external image URL, then commit only the MDX entry to Git.

Current flow

Text lanes still commit straight to GitHub. Media lanes now upload to R2 first and only commit the MDX entry with the asset reference.

  1. Pick the lane so the form only shows the fields that belong to that content type.
  2. For music, video, and image entries, choose upload or external URL first.
  3. Commit the entry through the existing GitHub-backed MDX flow.
  4. Wait for the Cloudflare rebuild to publish the new archive page.