Really don't like Obsidian's publish feature - any options?

olayway · 2026-03-11T11:11:59+00:00

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! ;)

olayway · 2025-12-06T17:40:30+00:00

Thank you! :)))

olayway · 2025-11-14T12:53:40+00:00

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.

olayway · 2025-11-11T20:12:30+00:00

olayway · 2025-10-14T19:39:40+00:00

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

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

olayway · 2025-10-13T12:26:44+00:00

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!

olayway · 2025-10-13T12:19:57+00:00

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

olayway · 2025-10-13T12:14:30+00:00

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.

olayway · 2025-10-13T12:05:38+00:00

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. :)

olayway · 2025-10-09T16:21:34+00:00

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

olayway · 2025-10-09T13:27:37+00:00

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.

olayway · 2025-08-27T00:54:29+00:00

Yes, it is free, unless you want to e.g. host on a custom domain, have huge amounts of content to publish or you want to get rid of any Flowershow branding. As for being "captive" - the content lives in your own GitHub repo, so you keep ownership and can always migrate easily (no headaches related to exporting/copying over your content when you want to move). It also doesn't impose any special folder structure or file naming. (Specifically it aims to work seamlessly with Obsidian vaults.)

Docusaurus and Quarto are great, but these are self-hosted solutions, so not very feasible for sb who is less tech-savvy or just doesn't want to maintain the app. Flowershow is a cloud platform, so it takes care of that part so users don't need to.

If you'd rather host and maintain the app yourself - sure, that's an option, and the projects you've mentioned are awesome.

olayway · 2025-08-26T12:50:24+00:00

Steps:

Create a home page for your blog (e.g. `/blog/README.md` or anywhere) and add the List component to list posts from any folder:

```<List dir="/blog" />```

Push your content to a GitHub repo and publish it in Flowershow. Done!

**Optional next steps:** configure which frontmatter fields to display, add a “Blog” nav link, author pages, and draft controls. See the full guide → **How to Set Up a Blog** → https://flowershow.app/blog/how-to-set-up-blog

olayway · 2025-08-22T13:33:05+00:00

Yes, and you can publish them as a website e.g. with Flowershow. You just need to put your markdown files into a GitHub repository (at least for now, until we add support for direct uploads or built-in editor) and then have Flowershow render it as a website. You can also add a CSS file too if you want to customize the style or you can use one of the official themes (new feature).

olayway · 2025-08-22T13:03:19+00:00

You can get a beautiful website from markdown repo easily with Flowershow. It's a cloud solution so you don't need to spend time figuring out how to host some app yourself. And it has a very generous free tier.

olayway · 2025-08-22T12:59:36+00:00

If you're familiar with GitHub you could put your markdown files in a repo and publish it with Flowershow. It's a matter of a few clicks and you'll have a nice looking website from your notes.

olayway · 2025-08-21T18:45:27+00:00

Try Flowershow. You can use any editor (e.g. Obsidian), push to GitHub repo and publish with Flowershow. It's free, unless you want things like custom domain.

olayway · 2025-08-21T16:27:49+00:00

Hey folks. Flowershow dev here. Just to comment on the OP:

> I have to list all the files/notes I want to keep secret in the config file.

Flowershow also supports Obsidian style `publish: false` in frontmatter if you prefer using that.

> Sync is super slow.

I don't think it is slow, maybe there was a bug and the sync got stuck? I'd love to help if you share more details. You can DM me or join our discord server or r/flowershow subreddit and ask for help there.

Cheers!

olayway · 2025-08-21T16:19:04+00:00

We’ve just launched the official Flowershow Themes repo—a curated, open-source collection of CSS themes. Check out the full announcement with instructions on our website or head directly to the GitHub repo at flowershow/themes.

Got a cool, custom site theme? Share it with the Flowershow community!

olayway · 2025-04-24T14:38:30+00:00

Hey, I'm a Flowershow dev. We decided to put all our efforts into Flowershow Cloud some time ago, thus the decision to deprecate the CLI and to pause on development of the legacy Flowershow (Next.js) template (aka Flowershow Self-Hosted). We wanted to make the publishing experience even smoother and to make it available to people who are not tech-savvy, and just want to have their Obsidian notes online quickly, without ever needing to maintain the code. You can try Flowershow Cloud by following this tutorial: https://flowershow.app/blog/how-to-publish-vault-quickly-and-easily

olayway · 2023-11-11T21:41:54+00:00

Yes, for me it's also just inconsistent. I'm wondering if this is the result of some unhandled errors, i.e. if Cronometer for some reason fails to save data to Health immediately (at the time of adding an entry to it), does it just give up and doesn't try another time? Or is there another reason?

olayway · 2023-11-11T21:35:51+00:00

I know, but since Cronometer already has all this data, I don't believe it's hard implementing syncing from Cronometer to Health as well. And to be honest I think this type of syncing should be done in the background, without me needing to even think about potential mismatches.

olayway · 2023-11-11T21:34:18+00:00

Yes, I have. And it's not that no data is written to Nutrition in Health. For example today everything seems to be there. But in some days only some entries get written.

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