Using Multiple default.html pages?

[RylanSchaeffer]

This is probably a misuse of an issue, but I want to add custom links to the left side of the index Markdown page. I discovered that I can create a _layouts/default.html file, which works well. However, I'd also like to have different pairings of markdown files and default.html files. Is there a way to do this? Can I specify for a particular markdown file which corresponding default.html I want used?

[brasofilo]

If I'm getting you right, it would be a new layout: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/layouts/

Add your custom file _layouts/mypage.html and then on the markdown file, you'd have the header:

---
layout: mypage
---

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