I’m experimenting with making my Obsidian vault my website. This means that all of my notes in my vault can become pages on my website. And blog posts are a special type of note. As an example of non-blog posts, this page is considered a “non-blog” type page. Basically, a standard Obsidian note. It just has a few pieces of metadata for Astro to understand how to publish it - namely, a title, and pubDate, which is when I last updated it.¹

This has been somewhat tricky. I use Astro for my blog, and it doesn’t natively support the backlinks that Obsidian does. And my Astro blog posts are written in .mdx, which isn’t supported natively by Obsidian. So it is all still a work-in-progress.

I would like to make some part of it open-source, or at least, document how I’ve done it. But since it’s my vault, I’m keeping a lot of it private. It’s my second brain, after all. You don’t really have any right to see all of my brain ;)

But, I do like the idea of my website being a place to collect my research. Obsidian is the natural place to do that locally, or, on my computer. It would make sense to share that research as my website. There’s just a few kinks I have to figure out, along the way.