diff --git a/create-site.el b/create-site.el
index 7f5779e..ed6a1d6 100755
--- a/create-site.el
+++ b/create-site.el
@@ -28,7 +28,57 @@
 (package-install 'htmlize)
 (package-install 'ox-gemini)
 
+;; ox-hugo for exocortex notes
+(use-package ox-hugo
+  :ensure t   ;Auto-install the package from Melpa
+  :pin melpa  ;`package-archives' should already have ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
+  :after ox
+  :config
+  (setq org-hugo-base-dir "~/projects/cosmicflow.space/public/exocortex-hugo-md" )
+  (setq org-hugo-default-section-directory "braindump")
+  )
+(setq org-roam-directory "~/projects/notes/")
 
+;; modified this function from https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/discussions/585#discussioncomment-2335203
+(defun ox-hugo/export-all (&optional org-files-root-dir dont-recurse)
+  "Export all Org files (including nested) under ORG-FILES-ROOT-DIR.
+
+All valid post subtrees in all Org files are exported using
+`org-hugo-export-wim-to-md'.
+
+If optional arg ORG-FILES-ROOT-DIR is nil, all Org files in
+current buffer's directory are exported.
+
+If optional arg DONT-RECURSE is nil, all Org files in
+ORG-FILES-ROOT-DIR in all subdirectories are exported. Else, only
+the Org files directly present in the current directory are
+exported.  If this function is called interactively with
+\\[universal-argument] prefix, DONT-RECURSE is set to non-nil.
+
+Example usage in Emacs Lisp: (ox-hugo/export-all \"~/org\")."
+  (interactive)
+  (let* ((org-files-root-dir (or org-files-root-dir default-directory))
+         (dont-recurse (or dont-recurse (and current-prefix-arg t)))
+         (search-path (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name org-files-root-dir)))
+         (org-files (if dont-recurse
+                        (directory-files search-path :full "\.org$")
+                      (directory-files-recursively search-path "\.org$")))
+         (num-files (length org-files))
+         (cnt 1))
+    (if (= 0 num-files)
+        (message (format "No Org files found in %s" search-path))
+      (progn
+        (message (format (if dont-recurse
+                             "[ox-hugo/export-all] Exporting %d files from %S .."
+                           "[ox-hugo/export-all] Exporting %d files recursively from %S ..")
+                         num-files search-path))
+        (dolist (org-file org-files)
+          (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect org-file)
+            (message (format "[ox-hugo/export-all file %d/%d] Exporting %s" cnt num-files org-file))
+            (org-hugo-export-wim-to-md :all-subtrees)
+            (setq cnt (1+ cnt))))
+        (message "Done!")))))
+(ox-hugo/export-all org-roam-directory)
 
 ;; Load the publishing system
 (require 'ox-publish)
diff --git a/create.sh b/create.sh
index 464dcbc..8e8ad37 100755
--- a/create.sh
+++ b/create.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 
 rm -rf ./public/cosmicflow-html/
+rm -rf ./public/exocortex-hugo-md/content/
 # generate the html and gemini versions of the site using org-publish
 emacs -Q  --batch -l create-site.el  
 
 rsync -avi ./content/ltximg ./public/cosmicflow-html/
 
+#sync exocortex notes 
+cd ./public/exocortex-hugo-md/
+npx quartz build
+cd ../../
+
+rsync -avi --delete ./public/exocortex-hugo-md/public/  ./public/cosmicflow-html/exocortex/
+
 # Set the source and destination directories
 src_dir="./public/cosmicflow-html"
 src_ltximg_dir="./public/cosmicflow-html/ltximg"