Free alternative to Obsidian Publish: Quartz
Added 2024-01-26 12:18:56 +0000 UTCHi 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!
Comments
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!
Nicole van der Hoeven
2024-01-26 18:07:04 +0000 UTCI 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!
Susan Pearson
2024-01-26 17:41:48 +0000 UTC
