When you click your link to the other post you get a numbered list, number 2 says
You can’t turn notebooks into posts without getting that up and running. Honestly it sounds for you personally like you’re going to have to figure out a fair bit of stuff to get this up and running on your local machine and I think you should ask yourself if it’s worth the effort.
If you just want to play around with your site design before you launch it then maybe just do it with the live site before you tell anyone it’s there.
If there is a compelling reason for doing this locally then it sounds like you need to start with that development guide.