Hi! How have you been? I'm starting my holiday in about 10...9 minutes, so I'll keep this one quick: I want to extend my experiment indefinitely and have a space to write, think and build in public with as little friction as possible.
I've been consciously avoiding leaving Obsidian Publish yak shaving during the past few months, so I could focus on what then felt scary -- writing! So I left the redesign as a little reward for myself for reaching 111 posts.
You can check the current version here.
Note: this is just a playground. and the design as well as the structure will change quite a bit! My main focus at the moment is building a solid pipeline to import the content from Obsidian, not the design.
Here's how the test site looks now
(temporary) Article view
(t...temporary!) Table of Contents
Don't fix what's not broken. I don't want to change the way I organise my personal notes, so I needed to build a slightly more complex way of publishing my notes from Obsidian. You can check the code here.
What to expect
- better, albeit more idiosyncratic UX, especially on mobile
- more interactivity, less linearity
- fixes for the issues mentioned here: Abusing and reviewing Obsidian Publish
MY BRAIN ONLINEone place for all of my projects (for now, my work is split between untested and sonnet.io)- hopefully some tools you can borrow and reuse
Here's how I'm going to work on this
- messily.
- with a ton of Spikes
I'll keep a replica of my notes from untested.sonnet.io on new.untested.sonnet.io and as soon as new.untested works as good as this version, we'll make the switch.
One must embrace the snail of Theseus, the constantly changing anthropod, the not so distant cousin of Proteus.
Ok, enough rambling. Time to say hi to some volcanoes and a glass of limoncello. Thanks for reading this!
Hugs, R.
P.S. I still love Obsidian Publish and highly recommend it if you just want to start sharing your thoughts in public. It just doesn't work for my specific use case. I enjoy coding with HTML/CSS as much as I enjoy drawing or calligraphy. It's a medium I grew (up) with so I want to spend more time with it!