Recently I’ve started using obsidian. I discovered its a Fantastic Closed Source Tool for storing the notes, organizing them with tags, folders, and links and see the beautiful graph of connecting nodes like a neurons in brain. It just act like your second brain. Its a database of can be anything, your knowledge base, your notes, your thoughts, your collections of texts anything. It can become kanban if you want and can become webdevelopment platform. The possibilities are limitless. PS: It can also act like vim.
I am not sure but in the obsidian community its a kind of culture of Digital Garden. To showcase your knowledge base, your second brain in some form. There are plugins for that. You can host your stuff with vercel, github pages and so on. but enough about obsidian. So where was I …
ohh so After stumbling on various different approach to hosting notes I landed on obsidian atlast. However the thing about me is I havent set one approach for hosting notes. so being indecisive I posted them sorta all over the place. How? this is how!
Pubnix Journey
I am currently registered with three pubnixes: 1. envs.net 2. exozy.me 3. vern.cc
Envs allows the directory indexing in public_html . It means if it a directory doesnt have index.html file in it then it becomes file manger sort of thing in browser when pointed to it. Taking the advantage of it I kinda “CSSed” the directory for “notes” and make it look like a website. It all explain in this blog Better Looking Indexof Page. Update: Also they allow cgi. So that enables lot of customization.
Unix Sockets
exozyme provide whole another level of pubnix experience, very unique in their own way.
Instead giving each member public_html to serve their site content they provided the unix socket based directory structure in /srv/http where any users can make directory or put unix socket to make it available as “yoursocketname_or_directoryname.exozy.me” subdomain.
Codeberg Pages
before joining any of these pubnix i kinda used to host my neovoid pages in codeberg pages. From which I had to move on because of frequent downtime and sometimes it becomes slow sometimes. (Idk about now. but its better alternative to github pages)
and for vern.cc it is restricted by my ISP to even surf their website. so its cave full of spiderwebs for me rn. Update: I think they fixed it. but I dont have any webpage on it. I dont plan to. Only have xmpp account on it.
So some notes I hosted in envs and some on my neovoid site’s static blog page hosted on codeberg. which I still preserved in exozyme. Update: I did some changes there created seperate page for blogs: https://nvpie.exozy.me/mysite/blogs and uses my fork of lukesmith’s lb script to manage them s
Digital Gardening
Now the thing is after discovering obsidian second brain thingy and seeing how people effeciently use it as their personal website as well storage of large database of notes and blogs I thought to myself why not try it. After all there are various ways to do it one way is obsidian publish and sync but that cost a lot and as I am being jobless I cant do that and second is through unofficial solutions like quartz which is fantastic. but then again my too negative mind give me vibes that “I kinda unable to find soul in it”. edit: After some CSS tweaks I succeed to put a soul in it xD.
Svelte
Then there is this svelte framework which is absolutely awesome. and I love to learn it. (Its still in my todo lol) However the site structured I adored and makes me dive into the mess of self hosting everything is sizeof.cat. The way they had every and thoughts, notes and blogs hosted inspire me makes something similar to it.
So what is the solution:
for one I thinking to just stick to obsidian now and pull over all the notes and blogs spread across various platforms and learn the art of stop worrying and letting the obsidian do its work, maybe also I should see how others manages their blogs structure learn to not restrict my mind for any particular set of norms of believes. because with obsidian possibilities are infinite.
Update: While Letting the obsidian and Quartz manages the blog only It might work but they also provide RSS so I put another non blogy notes or something in it then It also generates RSS feed entry for it too. Which cause me to panick again. But then I decided to update my old site’s blogs system and revive it with better approach.