# Content Production Playbook — Consciousness Garden

## Purpose
Turn a topic list into organized, rich Zensical docs for the awakening/consciousness site.
This document is the reusable task brief for any future content-writing run.

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## 1. Inputs required
- Topic list (title + one-line intent per topic)
- Desired folder hierarchy preference:
  - `docs/practices/` — guided practices
  - `docs/teachings/` — longer essays, frameworks
  - `docs/experiences/` — community stories, experiences
  - `docs/reference/` — glossaries, diagrams, maps
  - `docs/about/` — already exists; keep site meta here

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## 2. Research workflow
For each topic:
1. Run a short Firecrawl/parallel-cli research pass to pull 2–4 high-quality references.
2. Favor primary sources, short readable articles, and non-copyright-restricted diagrams.
3. If the topic is technical or structural, prefer diagrammatic explanation.

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## 3. Content standards
- **Tone**: calm, grounded, inviting — not performative spirituality.
- **Length**: 300–900 words per page unless the topic clearly demands more.
- **Structure per post**:
  - 1–3 sentence intro hook
  - 3–6 body sections with headings
  - 1 closing reflection or practice prompt
  - 1 related link into another page in the same hierarchy
- **Accessibility**: readable line length, alt text on images, reduced-motion safe animations.

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## 4. Zensical features to use
- Admonitions: `!!! note`, `!!! warning`
- Collapsibles: `???` for optional depth
- Code/math only when genuinely clarifying a model or practice
- Mermaid diagrams: flowcharts, mindmaps, or journey maps when a concept benefits from visual structure
- `markdown="1"` for figures/hero-style images
- Keep internal links relative to `docs/` paths

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## 5. Images & media
- Prefer lightweight PNG/SVG or optimized JPEG.
- If video is added:
  - Use a poster image
  - Do not autoplay
  - Prefer HTML5 `<video controls preload="none">`
- For diagrams:
  - Mermaid first
  - If Mermaid is unsuitable, generate a simple SVG and embed it

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## 6. Hierarchy rules
- Keep the tree shallow wherever possible: prefer `docs/practices/grounding.md` over deep nesting.
- Add an `index.md` to each section folder only if it adds navigational value.
- Avoid duplicate topics — search `docs/` with ripgrep before creating a new page.

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## 7. Linking policy
- Every new page should link to:
  - 1 nearby related page
  - 1 higher-level hub or index if available
- Use human-readable anchor text.
- Do not create orphan pages.

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## 8. Review checklist
- [ ] Build succeeds with `./.venv/bin/zensical build`
- [ ] Images render at reasonable size
- [ ] Internal links resolve in `site/search.json`
- [ ] Tone consistent with existing homepage
- [ ] No broken anchors in markdown
- [ ] Reduced-motion styles remain intact

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## 9. Output convention
When producing posts from this playbook, return:
1. New file paths and folder tree
2. 1–3 sentence rationale for hierarchy choice per page
3. List of new internal links created
4. Any generated assets (`docs/assets/images/*`, `docs/assets/diagrams/*`)