Blocks are the core 💛 of Notice. They power everything we do! This article goes over both the high-level vision and the intricacy of what blocks are.

You don't have to understand our system to use it at all. Using Notice is like playing with LEGOs, but on the web.

What's the Block Management System (BMS)?

The BMS comes with two main pieces: projects and blocks.

Blocks have three main characteristics:

• A block can be interpreted by Notice to make a view.
• A block contains references to other children's blocks
• A block can contain other blocks.

Therefore, you can think of a project as a tree 🌳 and the blocks as the branches.

Since blocks can contain other blocks, they can be synchronized across different projects, making content normalization super easy.

And when it comes to internalization, each block contains its own translation, meaning translations are done block by block.

If you're into the technical details, you should also know that blocks:

• Contain their own unique identifier for reference;
• Contain information about which content optimizations (JSON-ld, OG, …) it shall inject in the page it’s rendered in;
• And are organized in a column, making rendering and ordering a breeze.

What is a "Block Level Project"?

A block-level project is a soft concept. It’s a block that can be standalone and that can be considered at the top of a block tree. Any block can be standalone, be it a paragraph, an FAQ, full documentation, an article, or just an image.

The level of granularity of the blocks is up to you.