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Free alternative to Obsidian Publish: Quartz (Patreon)

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2024-01-26 12:18:56
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Hi everyone!

This week's video is about a free, open-source, self-hostable tool called Quartz that you can use to publish Obsidian (or other Markdown-based) notes. It recently won the Best Tool in the Gems of the Year 2023 awards, voted on by members of the Obsidian community.

Publishing notes with Quartz involves more setup than using Obsidian Publish, which is the service that I have been using (and am still using) for my main vault, Fork My Brain. However, Quartz IS very nice to use, and is nicely decoupled from Obsidian, meaning that if you decide to switch note-taking tools, you wouldn't be lost without a way to publish your notes as long as they're still in Markdown.

The book: Doing It in Public

I also thought that I'd take the opportunity to use Quartz for my book. Yep, that's finally happening now. I first talked about it last year, but life got in the way and I really didn't make any progress on it. No more. But I'm shifting directions. I'm no longer writing a book about Obsidian; I'm writing a book about learning in public. 

It's called Doing It in Public. The outline is up, and I'd love feedback! You can connect your Discord account to Patreon like this to join my Discord server, and tell me what you think in the #book-doing-it-in-public channel there.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!

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How to publish your notes for free with Quartz

If you were wondering how to publish your notes for free and you're familiar with static site generators, Quartz is probably one of the best ones out there. Quartz just won Best Tool in the Obsidian Gems of the Year 2023 awards, and with good reason. It's free, open-source, well-documented, and works really well with Markdown-based note-taking apps like Obsidian. // LINKS 🖊️ How to publish Obsidian notes with Quartz on GitHub Pages: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/How+to+publish+Obsidian+notes+with+Quartz+on+GitHub+Pages 🙏🏻 Gilbert Sanchez: https://links.gilbertsanchez.com/ 🖊️ Quartz documentation: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ 🖊️ GitHub documentation: https://docs.github.com/ 🖊️ GitHub Pages documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/pages 🖊️ Obsidian documentation: https://help.obsidian.md/Home // TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:34 What is Quartz? 03:46 Step 1 - Download and install Quartz 06:13 Step 2 - Set up your GitHub repository 08:13 Step 3 - Set up your Obsidian vault 12:59 Step 4 - Sync to GitHub 14:22 Step 5 - Host your notes online with GitHub Pages 16:21 (Optional) How to publish on a custom domain --- // ABOUT ME Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole My travel YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/luckydippers k6 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/k6test // APPS I USE - Obsidian: https://obsidian.md - Readwise: https://readwise.io/nicole - Shortform: https://shortform.com/nicole - Reclaim: https://go.reclaim.ai/eg0tgbamp7cb - Snipd: https://link.snipd.com/Cx7S/nicole - Napkin: https://napkin.one/?via=nicole // GEAR https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/gear/ // WANT TO SUPPORT ME? ❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates: https://patreon.com/nicolevdh ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/nicolevdh Note: Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a small percentage when you sign up using those links. To see how I decide what to promote in this way, check out my Ethics Statement: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/ethics/

Comments

Susan Pearson

I have been using Digital Garden which goes through Vercel and Git but found it buggy at times, for instance if I move a note it can appear in the old and new place. As I only have a small selection of my notes published so far I think I might look into changing to Quartz. I already pay for Sync and publish is a stretch too far until my online efforts make me some income - living on disability benefits sucks!

nicolevdh
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I have only recently heard of Digital Garden! Good to hear about the bugginess. I always get FOMO when I hear about alternatives. Quartz can use Vercel and Git too, btw, if that works better for you. I understand not wanting to pay for Publish, especially since you also have Sync on top of it. All those monthly subscriptions really add up!