diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9ab262a..f9f782b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # transmet
-Quick fast dirty link store that can dump them to an html template
+Quick fast personal link store that exports to a HTML template for quick posting to a blog
+
+Usecase: storing interesting news articles you come across during a week with at the moment notes/commentary and
+	then exporting in a currated organized format for immediate blog posting at your convience
+
+## Note
+
+As this is a personal project, some of the niceities like user managment and category managment 
+(that are one time tasks) are left to be done in SQL. I needed a tool to store links and export 
+to html so that's what I've focused on.
 
 # Install
 
@@ -14,6 +23,8 @@ CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;
 
 go get bitbucket.org/liamstask/goose/cmd/goose
 
+edit db/dbconf.yaml
+
 goose up
 
 ## Build and run
@@ -22,3 +33,13 @@ go build
 sudo cp transmet.conf /etc/init
 
 sudo service transmet start
+
+## Setup environment
+
+### Adding a user
+
+INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES('USERNAME', crypt('PASSWORD', gen_salt('bf')));
+
+### Adding Categories
+
+INSERT INTO categories (name, parent_id) VALUES ('NAME', [null or PARENT_ID]);
diff --git a/categories/categories.go b/categories/categories.go
index 65d93d1..5f8d7f6 100644
--- a/categories/categories.go
+++ b/categories/categories.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
     "database/sql"	
 	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 )
 
 type Category struct {
@@ -44,4 +45,19 @@ func LoadCategories(db *sql.DB) {
 		    CategoriesTree = append(CategoriesTree, category)
 		}    
 	}
+}
+
+// get the number of parents a category has
+func (category *Category) Depth() int {
+    depth := 0
+    current := category
+    for current.Parent.Valid {
+        current = CategoriesFlat[int(current.Parent.Int64)]
+        depth ++
+    }
+    return depth
+}
+
+func (category *Category) ToString() string {
+    return strings.Repeat("- ", category.Depth()) + category.Name
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/news/news.go b/news/news.go
index 6d5889a..a73a6d2 100644
--- a/news/news.go
+++ b/news/news.go
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ type News struct {
     Expoerted bool
 }
 
+type NewsContainer struct {
+    Name string
+    News []News
+    Children map[int]*NewsContainer
+}
+
 func (news *News) Insert(db *sql.DB) error {
     _, err := db.Exec("INSERT INTO news (url, title, category_id, notes) VALUES($1, $2, $3, $4)", news.Url, news.Title, news.Category_id, news.Notes );
     if err != nil {
@@ -26,15 +32,21 @@ func (news *News) Insert(db *sql.DB) error {
     return nil
 }
 
-func Unexported(db *sql.DB) ([]News, error) {
-	res, err := db.Query("SELECT url, title, category_id, timestamp, notes FROM news WHERE exported=false")
+func Unexported(db *sql.DB) (map[int]*NewsContainer, error) {
+	rows, err := db.Query("SELECT url, title, category_id, timestamp, notes FROM news WHERE exported=false")
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Println("DB errpr reading unexported news: ", err)
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	news := []News{}
+	newsTree := map[int]*NewsContainer{}
+	newsFlat := map[int]*NewsContainer{}
+	
+	for rows.Next() {
+	    news := News{}
+	    var url sql.NullString 
+	    err := rows.Scan(&news.Url, &news.Title, &news.Category_id, &news.Date, &news.Notes)
+	}
 	
 	
-	
-	return news, nil
+	return newsTree, nil
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/route_handlers.go b/route_handlers.go
index 286d73b..53049c9 100644
--- a/route_handlers.go
+++ b/route_handlers.go
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ func addFormHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, user *user.User) {
     
     var url = r.URL.Query().Get("url")
     reHttp := regexp.MustCompile("^http://")
-    if ! reHttp.Match([]byte(url)) {
+    if url != "" && ! reHttp.Match([]byte(url)) {
         url = "http://" + url
     } 
     resp, err := http.Get(url)
diff --git a/templates/pages/add.html b/templates/pages/add.html
index 69212f2..e0f9bce 100644
--- a/templates/pages/add.html
+++ b/templates/pages/add.html
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 
 {{define "option-category"}}
-    <option value="{{.Id}}">{{if .Parent.Valid}}-{{end}}{{.Name}}</option>
+    <option value="{{.Id}}">{{.ToString}}</option>
     {{range $child := .Children}}
         {{template "option-category" $child}}
      {{end}}