I wanted to keep this as simple and cheap as possible. I write blog posts in a specific spot in my obsidian notes, and they get published to a netlify app.
Implementation
I found this cool project devidw/obsidian-to-hugo: Process Obsidian notes to publish them with Hugo which lets you create a static site from markdown. It worked great but I had to modify it to support a few requirements specific to my note system.
- grab notes from my obsidian vault that are eligible as posts (
prj.devblog.posts.*) and pull them into my dev-blog repo - Remove unused files
- Add linked files like images and move them somewhere they can be rendered
Build
pyscripts/export_obsidian.py
source: dev-blog/pyscripts/export_obsidian.py at main · bs7280/dev-blog
Test
run:
hugo server
then view the site at lhttp://localhost:1313/
Publish
simply commit all changes (git add content/posts/*) and commit + push
changes should be available almost immediately! Eventually I’d like to automate this as a build pipeline in my private obsidian notes github repo.