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Search & CLI

Find a note, go to a section, or read the published source.

On larger screens, open Search / CLI from the header or use the buttons above. With a keyboard, press Ctrl K (⌘ K on a Mac) at any screen size. Type ordinary words to search, or choose CLI for a full-screen command line. Press Escape to close.

Using the command line

The CLI gives you a prompt and a running transcript. List the notes, read their full text, follow a source or change the light. Commands use the same published catalogue as the rest of the site.

help
ls
cat ai-in-legal-work
formats ai-in-legal-work
theme night

Enter runs a command. ↑ and ↓ recall commands and restore your unfinished input. Tab completes an unambiguous command or argument; otherwise it moves focus normally. clear clears the transcript and history. exit or Escape closes the interface.

An open CLI session keeps your draft and history when you resize the window. Closing discards them. On phones, use the menu for Practice, Profile, Notes and Contact. All published texts and formats remain available through ordinary links.

A few useful commands

Search covers the full published catalogue in the active language, together with the framework and working note available in English. Commands navigate or read this site’s public content.

Command	What it does
`help`	Show the available commands.
`search <words>`	Search titles and full text. In Search mode, ordinary words without `search` work too.
`notes`	List the published notes. `ls` is an alias in CLI mode.
`open <page or section>`	Go directly to a page or a section, such as `open contact`.
`read <note slug>`	Read a plain-text edition of a note. Try `read ai-in-legal-work`, or `cat ai-in-legal-work` in CLI mode.
`whoami`	Show the practice introduction and its source (CLI).
`formats [note slug]`	Find the catalogue, schema, feed, or a note’s canonical page and Markdown edition (CLI).
`theme day\|night\|system\|zurich`	Choose day, night, the device preference, or the light in Zurich.
`lang en\|de\|fr`	Open the available translation, or its language’s homepage.

Search and CLI run in your browser against this site’s published catalogue. Queries and commands are not sent to a server or saved in browser storage. The links below remain available when JavaScript is disabled.

Browse the published work

Practice: English, Deutsch, Français.
Notes archive: English, Deutsch, Français.
Legal agents inside the organisation, a framework available in English.
Legal work that stays useful, a working note available in English.

The same content, in open formats

Use the canonical HTML page or a stable section link when citing a document. The catalogue identifies its source, language, dates, translations and available Markdown edition.

Resource	Contents
Content catalogue	Structured JSON containing the full published document text, metadata and section links.
Catalogue schema	JSON Schema 2020-12 describing the catalogue’s fields.
Practice profile	Structured professional information, services and contact details.
Markdown	The English practice page. The catalogue’s `markdown_url` field points to each document’s edition.
Full plain text	Collected English content, with German and French editions.
llms.txt index	A concise index for tools that recognise this emerging convention. It is an additional discovery route, not a universal protocol.
Notes feed	Published notes in Atom format. Site changes are available as a separate feed.
Sitemap	Public page URLs and available language editions.

Read from your own tools

These examples use curl to read public files. The catalogue examples use jq to select fields from the response.

Fetch the catalogue

curl -fsS https://jonashertner.com/content/index.json

List document languages, titles and URLs

curl -fsS https://jonashertner.com/content/index.json |
  jq -r '.documents[] | [.language, .title, .url] | @tsv'

Search full text

curl -fsS https://jonashertner.com/content/index.json |
  jq -r '.documents[] | select((.title + " " + .text) | test("artificial intelligence"; "i")) | .url'

Read a specific note

curl -fsS https://jonashertner.com/content/index.json |
  jq -r '.documents[] | select(.url == "https://jonashertner.com/notes/ai-in-legal-work/") | .text'

Or fetch its Markdown edition directly:

curl -fsS https://jonashertner.com/notes/ai-in-legal-work/index.md