[[{4.1e1} why you should publish your own notes and browse notes from others]] # Obsidian Publish --- publish is a core obsidian plugin that publishes your notes for $8-$10 per month. it works seamlessly with your vault, keeps all markdown formatting, and allows you to control which pages are made public. my notes have been published this way since [[2024-03-29]] and i’ve found it beginner-friendly and the simplest / fastest way to get a published site from your vault. you can select folders to ignore, or to include, and can manually select which files to publish; you cannot filter by tag ~~or property~~. [[2026-08-29]] not sure if this is new functionality or if i’ve just missed it for two years… adding a `publish` property will automatically select or hide files on the publication screen. if `publish` is `true`, the file will be selected for publication; if `false`, the file cannot be selected for publication at all. some downsides of obsidian publish: 1. no easy way to display frontmatter or add features like webmentions. 2. bases and canvas are not currently supported. # third-party plugins --- ## Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin [repo](https://github.com/oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden) | [documentation](https://dg-docs.ole.dev/) Open source, supports Dataview queries, graphs, links, frontmatter, etc. And publication control can happen in YAML. I had trouble customizing this to my preference. ## Markdown Blogger [repo](https://github.com/afazio1/obsidian-markdown-blogger) IDK if my terminology is right here -- I think you still have to set up something like a static site generator, then specify a folder in that to push note to... Then with Markdown Blogger, you can set a command in Obsidian to push notes *into* that folder -- or update them, etc. Amazing that I can't remember how it works, because I did use this for a while (with 11ty, I think? this is why I take notes, lol). *But* I do remember really loving it, just didn't fit with my workflow / amount of notes because I had to remember to update each one individually. ## Blot.im [Blot.im]([Blot – A blogging platform with no interface.](https://blot.im/)) is a blogging platform that turns any folder on Google Drive, Dropbox, and GIT into a website so you can blog directly from your preferred text editor. It costs $4 a month and supports basic publishing needs, including using custom domains, using wikilinks, and it comes with several pre-built template options. I tried Blot briefly and set-up was simple. I decided Blot wasn’t right for me primarily because I didn’t have the control I needed over *what* was being published. You can use `__` before a file or folder’s title to prevent it from becoming a post and you can create a `Drafts` folder that’s kept private, but, otherwise, all files in your Blot folder are public. I prefer using something like frontmatter to prevent publication of personal files, so this doesn’t work for me, *but* is a great option if you have a vault you want to be completely public. ~~[[2024-03-29]] -- I've since reorganized my vault and use a "private" folder for Publish to ignore. This might be worth revisiting. # Static Site Generators --- ## 11ty This seems to be the fan-favorite. I published an iteration of my vault on [11ty](https://www.11ty.dev/) and found it, uh... I mean, the documentation and tutorials are fantastic (I've watched [this one](https://11ty.rocks/posts/create-your-first-basic-11ty-website/) probably fifteen times), and found the whole process pretty rewarding as a newbie to coding, but *wow* was it cumbersome for what I wanted. ## astro