Using Obsidian as my Blog editor

The other day I ran into an older post by Obsidian's developer Steph Ango on Mastodon showing how he is using Obsidian and it's new-ish web-viewer to built and preview his blog and I realized that this setup might just be the "solution" that I was looking for.

Since I am currently using Hugo and building the site locally setting this up had been merely pointing Obsidian at my blog folder, setting up a new vault and then clicking myself a little through the settings, downloading and setting up the Minimal theme as well as activating the same font I use on the blog (Atkinson Hyperlegible) and it was done in I say about 5 min max.

After all, the blog is nothing but a collection or markdown files in a bunch of folders.

Just to be sure that Obsidian’s internal settings folder (which is a hidden folder in the root directory) doesn’t mess up things on Hugo’s side, I have the blog’s folder structure, and thus the part that will be used for building the site, not on the root level but nested on the second level. I don’t think though that is even necessary, just a precaution.

This is in return gives me the opportunity to add a drafts and template folder.

It usually takes me ages to finish any blog post, which is why I like to have the drafts in a place I where I not accidentally publish stuff.

In the rare event I do finish a post, I simply move it to the appropriate folder, add/update the date and have Hugo build the blog, and I can check the post locally and then fix whatever I have missed, which is more than I care to admit.

I’m still early in the “testing period” but so far I can say that this is an excellent setup.

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