[dkarl]

As another poster said, the problem is that Hugo is built around a number of new concepts. To understand them, you have to understand their relation to two contexts: the other Hugo concepts that they are designed to work with, and Hugo's purpose of generating web sites from data.

The docs are written almost entirely in the first context, building the concepts up and explaining how they work together, so if you start with the docs you can end up spending a lot of time trying to create a mental model entirely out of these concepts, with no connection to the concrete function of the software.