Notion made it really easy to share and publish Notion sites, and that’s probably going to be the thing I’ll miss the most. A prerequisite for me when choosing what will house my digital garden is the public feature — I want my thoughts and resources out in public (without it being on a platform like Twitter or Medium), and I want to be able to customize it exactly the way that I want it.
So far, I’ve tried Digital Garden but it hasn’t been responding well to changes I make with my files and folders. Somehow, it just keeps breaking. Maybe I’ll wait until I figure out my folder structure before getting into it again. I gotta clean my house before I let people come in, if you will.
The other option is Quartz, which is widely regarded as the go-to publishing route if you don’t want to pay for Obsidian Publish, but I’ve been struggling with CLI and setting up environments. I know how to follow instructions, but I hit a wall every time I need to troubleshoot. TBD
2024-11-29
Obsidian is kicking my ass right now.
I’m struggling to figure out a workflow for me to freely write (✅) but also publish when I feel like it — like you know, a regular blog. But the DG Community Plugin is giving me a hard time with customizing the look and feel (just CSS cmon), and making it easy to just publish.
This is a different kind of clunky. It’s a faster note taker, but now at the cost of making it difficult to share, because I still care about that aspect of my writing and learning as a means of accountability.
I’ve purchased a month of Obsidian Publish to see if this will be the thing that will save my life, as I’m ok with paying for software that brings me joy. We’ll see how it goes, I’m already dreading having to set up Cloudflare.
This has become a burden to my writing. I don’t wanna go back to Notion, we’re not done here.
2024-12-07
List of things I need to work through:
- How do you create components?
- How do you customize the CSS/SCSS of the template that Digital Garden is using?
How do I get dataview, link embeds to work?
Awkwardly shortlived — I purchased a month of Obsidian Publish and quickly found out that it wasn’t going to do anything for me (none of the community plugins work by default, and there’s no part of me that even wants to try to debug that).
I am back to working through the Digital Garden plugin. I’m gunna have to bug my friends to help me through understanding Terminal and what git shit i’m pulling because I have no idea.
So far, I’ve added the SCSS file to my folder, but it’s not showing up. I’m not really sure why this is a struggle for me, I’m kind of in the dark.
Leanne is typing ✍🏻