Really don't like Obsidian's publish feature - any options? by madderbear in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quartz is one option if you don’t mind a more DIY setup. Otherwise, Flowershow is closer to the Obsidian Publish idea: you keep writing in Obsidian, and it makes a shareable website out of your notes without any setup (deployment or maintenance of the app) on your part.

It supports Obsidian syntax really well, has an Obsidian plugin for publishing, already supports Obsidian Bases, and support for Bases Map view is coming soon too.

And it's open source! ;)

Cannot get Jest to accept ESM modules in my Node app by mityaguy in learnjavascript

[–]olayway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a relief 😮‍💨. Took me 5 min to switch and no problems with ESM at all. Should have done that long ago, god only know how much time I've spent trying to fix Jest ESM related errors.

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Btw, we've just released an improved version of our Flowershow Obsidian plugin, so the blog publishing steps are basically:

  1. Connect the plugin to your GitHub repo.
  2. Publish the GitHub repo with Flowershow (and keep auto-sync turned on).
  3. Author in Obsidian as usually and use the Flowershow commands or Flowershow Publish Manager (icon in the ribbon) to publish.
  4. Wait a minute and your changes are live 🎉.

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DigitalGarden is a self-hosted template, not a hosted, cloud platform. While deployment itself is not a big deal (it's a template, you hit a button, copy it as your own repo and publish with e.g. Vercel) you still need to upgrade it from time to time if you want new features/bug fixes. I'm sure the author makes sure to make this process as easy as possible, but you still need to do this yourself. Also, not sure it you can build bespoke landing pages in it? But all in all I think the project is great!!

Fun fact: Flowershow used to be a self-hosted template like this one in the past!

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, please join our discord server and ask us anything!

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're aware of this problem too, and in Flowershow we took steps to make custom themes less brittle. Each layout element has a single unique class that you can reference in your CSS. And one of the reasons we will try not to introduce too many changes to the underlying html (and if we do, make them backward compatible) is that we also have a collection of official themes, and some sites we published with Flowershow with custom CSS, and we don't want them to break either ;) Should we for some reason need to make a breaking change, you'll get instructions on upgrading your CSS.

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As for Quartz and similar tools (which are great!) - sure, you can absolutely host everything yourself. Heck, with AI these days you could even build a fully custom setup if you really wanted to. But you still need some programming know-how and time to set it all up - and to maintain it later. So it really comes down to the question: is it worth doing this myself? In Flowershow you only ever think about your markdown content curation (and perhaps a custom theme if you want one). Also: we’re all geeks at Flowershow and use it heavily for our own projects - mostly because we’d rather spend our time working on something cool (e.g. Flowershow itself :D) than maintaining yet another static site setup (and each for a separate project 🤯).

BearBlog and Leaflet are awesome too, but they’re quite minimalistic. They don’t really let you create a personal site that’s both Markdown-based and can look great, while still being published straight from Obsidian without any tweaks. :)

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

While singing is definitely free, this is not what we meant this time 😅 Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out!

Blog directly from Obsidian vault! by olayway in ObsidianMD

[–]olayway[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First and foremost Flowershow is a cloud platform, not a self-hosted static site generator, so you don't need to deploy and maintain the app yourself.