diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6e102a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "racket-sass"]
+	path = racket-sass
+	url = https://github.com/Bogdanp/racket-sass
diff --git a/NOTES.md b/NOTES.md
index b459704..fc38c53 100644
--- a/NOTES.md
+++ b/NOTES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## deps
+
+- crypto-lib
+- markdown
+- sass (submodule, needed modifications)
+
 ## Disk structure
 
 /cache/: cached remote objects
diff --git a/racket-sass b/racket-sass
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..ce67a03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/racket-sass
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit ce67a0344c88e4ccadbdaac85de628bce9c82b39
diff --git a/scripts/init b/scripts/init
index 4a8354e..8657074 100755
--- a/scripts/init
+++ b/scripts/init
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
          crypto/libcrypto
          net/base64)
 
+; TODO
+; if a blog tree already exists, print a nice error instead of letting make-directory error lol
+
 ; cache dirs
 (make-directory "cache")
 (make-directory "cache/actors")