How I Use This Obsidian

This might also be helpful if I ever need to restart the program or install on a new computer or something.

Organization

I primarily organize via tags, not folders, as this allows for more flexibility. I use the Tagfolders extension for this. I use them so the tags nest, if that makes sense. The settings were weird.

~~This doesn't work with Obsidian Publish, and I want to figure that out as I don't love using folders.~~

I switched from Obsidian Publish to the plugin Digital Garden and I love it so far. It doesn't have a folders-based sidebar, or any sidebar really. Eventually I'd love to code a layout, but for now I think eventually making tag indexes would be helpful. Also, it shows the results of dataview queries!! Ahh!!

To-Do

Copy relevant Keep Notes to Obsidian
Determine a better method of publishing than Obsidian publish ✅ 2025-09-05
- https://www.curiouslychase.com/posts/how-i-publish-obsidian-files-to-the-web ✅ 2025-09-05
- Want: Recently published/edited page ✅ 2025-09-05
- Want: Tag index pages

References

Reddit Comment
If you don't feel like paying for Obsidian Publish, there's plenty of static site generators that can process Markdown, most popular of which would probably be Jekyll, Hugo and Gatsby. I'd recommend the first one, though you need to keep in mind three things:

If you use [[internal links]] instead of [internal links](/example), you'll need to convert them. There's a third party plugin in Obsidian that does that.
Your notes would have to follow a certain naming pattern for Jekyll to process them (example: 2021-01-01-example-post.md) before drag-and-dropping them into the Jekyll folder.
Obsidian supports metadata at the top of the files as of few versions ago, and depending on the theme you choose, you may need to add some metadata for things to work correctly.

You can use GitHub/GitLab to host them for free, either on <username>.github.io/<username>.gitlab.io, or connect a custom domain.

Github Digital Garden