Static home page and link to index page?

Figured this out. For other newbs struggling to create a static home page: Go into the file you want to be your home page and enter this at the top. This will send you to that static page when you click on your site title.

Link: /

The archives page functions as an index page.

Great, yes this is the recommended way to create a landing page

So if I do this, then how do I have a regular reverse-chronological list of my posts like if my 'blog' page were my home page? Ideally /blog of my site is....my blog, all my posts, not an archive.

...sorry, found the text on that page to add the /page/1 link, so that works now! But is there a way to have all my posts listed at /blog instead of /page/1 ?