diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index bfd9382..52ce57b 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ def render_post(fpath):
 
 	title = md.Meta.get('title')[0]
 	date = md.Meta.get('date')[0]
+	draft = False
+	if md.Meta.get('draft'):
+		draft = True
 
 	out = convert('# ' + title) + out
 
@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@ def render_post(fpath):
 		'date': date,
 		'fpath': fpath,
 		'destpath': destpath,
+		'draft': draft,
 	}
 
 def render_posts():
@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ def render_rss_index(posts):
 def main():
 	posts = render_posts()
 	logging.info('rendered posts: %s', posts)
+	posts = filter(lambda p: not p['draft'], posts)
 	sorted_posts = sorted(posts,
 					   key=lambda p: datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(p['date']), reverse=True)
 	render_index(sorted_posts)
diff --git a/posts/build_a_blog.md b/posts/build_a_blog.md
index f8ceded..a6d0216 100644
--- a/posts/build_a_blog.md
+++ b/posts/build_a_blog.md
@@ -667,6 +667,72 @@ View the complete source for generating this blog:
 
 Or the full repo tree: <https://git.sr.ht/~cfebs/cfebs.srht.site/tree>
 
+## EDIT
+
+Few additional things that will be added will go here.
+
+### 2024-06-19, adding draft state
+
+It might be nice to work on a rough draft, generate it for previewing, track it in git, but skip including it in the posts index.
+
+So I'll add a piece of post metadata called `Draft` and use `filter()` before the posts are sorted or applied to the `index.html` or RSS `index.xml`.
+
+This is the result.
+
+```diff
+diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
+index bfd9382..52ce57b 100644
+--- a/main.py
++++ b/main.py
+@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ def render_post(fpath):
+
+ 	title = md.Meta.get('title')[0]
+ 	date = md.Meta.get('date')[0]
++	draft = False
++	if md.Meta.get('draft'):
++		draft = True
+
+ 	out = convert('# ' + title) + out
+
+@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@ def render_post(fpath):
+ 		'date': date,
+ 		'fpath': fpath,
+ 		'destpath': destpath,
++		'draft': draft,
+ 	}
+
+ def render_posts():
+@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ def render_rss_index(posts):
+ def main():
+ 	posts = render_posts()
+ 	logging.info('rendered posts: %s', posts)
++	posts = filter(lambda p: not p['draft'], posts)
+ 	sorted_posts = sorted(posts,
+ 					   key=lambda p: datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(p['date']), reverse=True)
+ 	render_index(sorted_posts)
+```
+
+And testing it:
+```
+❯ cat ./posts/test_thing.md
+Title: Test thing
+Date: 2024-06-19T13:38:34-04:00
+Draft: 1
+
+❯ python main.py
+...
+```
+
+html should get generated, but not in the index or xml
+```
+❯ grep 'Test thing' ./posts/test_thing.html
+  <title>cfebs.com - Test thing</title>
+        <h1 id="test-thing"><a class="toclink" href="#test-thing">Test thing</a></h1>
+
+❯ grep 'Test thing' ./index.html ./index.xml | wc -l
+0
+```
+
 [1]: https://crystal-lang.org/
 [2]: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/0.31.0
 [3]: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/py3-markdown